Posts tagged Drug Products

• Surgical Solution Recalled

  Robert Blanchard | February 27, 2006 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I read with interest notice of a recent recall, because it wasn't clear what problem the product was causing. The recall pertained to an estimated 1 million units of balanced salt solution distributed between December 2003 and December 2005 under the brand names AMO Endosol (Advanced Medical Optics), Cytosol Ophthalmics (Cytosol Ophthalmics), and Akorn (Akorn Inc). The US Food and Drug...

• Fosamax - Why no Osteonecrosis Warning?

  Robert Blanchard | February 20, 2006 3:19 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  What can be worse than your jaw rotting away and dying while it is still in your face? Other drugs in the same class as Fosamax(R) warn of this potential outcome. See article at Cancer Drug Causes Bone Problems in Jaw. In the U.S. Package Inserts for both Aredia and Zometa, the following information on osteonecrosis had previously been added to the Adverse Reactions section under Post-Marketing...

• Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch - Admits to Problem

  Robert Blanchard | February 20, 2006 3:14 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The makers of the only birth control patch announced last week that new studies have shown that their Ortho Evra birth Control Patch is having twice the problems of the standard oral dose. Ortho Women's Health & Urology is the maker of the ORTHO EVRA (R) (norelgestromin/ethinyl estradiol transdermal system) birth control patch and it has received findings from two separate studies that were...

• FDA Issues Public Health Advisory for Trasylol

  Robert Blanchard | February 13, 2006 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration issued a Public Health Advisory alerting doctors who perform heart bypass surgery, and their patients, that Trasyolol (aprotinin injection), a drug used to prevent blood loss during surgery, has been linked in two scientific publications to higher risks of serious side effects including kidney problems, heart attacks and strokes in patients who undergo artery...

• Trasylol - Dangerous Drug Puts Profits Over Safety

  Robert Blanchard | February 01, 2006 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Recent reports about this drug are truly shocking. Trasylol is used during heart operations to control bleeding - important to be sure - but it turns out that while this drug destroys kidneys, two readily available and less expensive, generic drugs work just as well without the risk. A major indepedent study found that the risk of kidney failure and strokes is doubled with Trasylol. We have to...

• Orthro Evra Birth Control Patch hearing set

  Robert Blanchard | January 05, 2006 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In repsonse to a Petition filed by one claimant, a federal court has order a hearing to consider whether all the suits in the country involving this birth control patch should be consolidated into one federal court. The hearing will take place in Orlando on January 25, 2006.

• Neutro Spec x-ray die - warning too late for some

  Robert Blanchard | January 05, 2006 4:20 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  One has to wonder why the FDA so often learns of problems only after a new drug or medical device is approved and in use. Reports submitted to the FDA suggest NeutroSpec, a die used during radiographic imaging, caused allergic-type reactions within minutes following administration. Those reactions led to the death of two patients and to cardiopulmonary failure, central nervous system problems...

• More Ortho Evra Lawsuits

  Robert Blanchard | November 14, 2005 12:59 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Blood clots from birth control are not new. But in patch form it appears you are getting more hormones and, now they find, more blood clots. I would think that lawyers looking into these cases would be wise to focus on the dosage problems rather the hormones themselves. Hormone-related litigation has so far proved difficult.More than 4 million women have used the patch since it went on sale in...

• Another Vioxx Lawsuit Filed

  Staff Writer | November 07, 2005 1:39 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  An Illinois attorney has filed a lawsuit against Merck (the drug's maker) and Wallgreens.Irene Anzona was 49 when she had a stroke she believes was caused by Vioxx, a Cox-2 inhibitor used to treat arthritis pain. Vioxx was voluntarily recalled by Merck in September 2004. Anzona's attorney alleges that Merck failed to warn Vioxx users of the drug's potentially dangerous side effects, was...