Posts tagged fda

• Congress: the FDA Will Now Control Cigarettes

  Mike Ferrara | June 11, 2009 9:15 PM | 14 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  The Senate voted today and the House is expected to vote tomorrow to pass The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a critical piece of legislation that will allow the FDA to regulate...

• Phenergan Causes Gangrene, & the FDA's Cool with it - a Huge Preemption Case for the Supreme Court.

  Mike Ferrara | November 03, 2008 7:08 AM | 5 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week, the US Supreme Court will begin hearing Wyeth v. Levine, the Court’s third preemption case in less than a year. At issue in the case is one woman’s horrific experience with...

• Pfizer Settles over Bextra and Celebrex for $894 Million – Celebrex Still on the (Black Box!) Market

  Camryn Hansen | October 19, 2008 9:00 AM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug maker, has agreed in principle to an $894 million settlement for heart attacks, strokes, and other damages caused by its painkillers Bextra and...

• Is There Any Such Thing as a Healthy Tan?

  Mike Ferrara | June 10, 2011 2:34 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Before Americans hit the beach this summer, nearly 30 million of them will be visiting a tanning salon, thinking that tanning ahead of time indoors will help protect them against the harmful effects...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Causes Heart Attacks & Deaths; FDA is Wishy-Washy

  Mike Ferrara | February 21, 2010 9:34 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On Friday, The New York Times released evidence from confidential FDA reports showing that the blockbuster diabetes drug Avandia, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, greatly raises risks of...

• FDA Hasn’t Restructured for Drug Safety Since Vioxx – We Need More & Better Monitoring

  Mike Ferrara | December 27, 2009 7:58 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  After the FDA’s poor handling of the Merck painkiller Vioxx, which the agency approved in 1999 but then pulled from the market in 2004 after it caused thousands of heart attacks and...

• Something Smell Fishy? If You’re Taking Zicam, No Way to Tell

  Mike Ferrara | June 18, 2009 11:05 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Maddeningly, it has taken the FDA a full ten years to issue a warning about Zicam Cold Remedy, a homeopathic nasal gel manufactured by Matrixx Initiatives, letting us know that this drug can...

• Seroquel Maker AstraZeneca Fighting to Keep Drug Studies, FDA Documents Secret to “Protect Public” – What are they Really Hiding?

  Camryn Hansen | February 15, 2009 10:56 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Seroquel, the blockbuster antipsychotic which brought in a full 14% of drug maker AstraZeneca’s $31.6 billion in sales last year, is only FDA-approved to treat schizophrenia and bipolar...

• Confused by Preemption in Wyeth v. Levine? Listen to the Experts.

  Camryn Hansen | November 11, 2008 10:55 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week, as the US Supreme Court hears the case of Wyeth v. Levine, centered around the FDA’s continued approval of the Wyeth migraine drug Phenergan for intravenous use via the IV push...

• GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750 Million for Felony Fraud

  Mike Ferrara | November 06, 2010 4:40 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is pleading guilty to criminal felony charges in an American investigation into its manufacturing practices at a Puerto Rico plant, and will pay $750 million in...