Posts tagged Drug Products

• Antidepressant Suicide - Prosac Paxil Effexor

  Robert Blanchard | January 25, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  According to a new study, for suicidal patients who had taken antidepressants, fluoxetine (Prosac) was associated with the lowest risk for causing suicidal tendencies, as opposed to venlafaxine (Effexor) which had the highest risk, as published in the December issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The aim of this study was to investigate, in a nationwide series of suicidal subjects, how...

• Strokes Caused by Medications

  Robert Blanchard | January 31, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The suits against the makers of Vioxx, Celebrex, PPA and Ortho Evra all include claims that the medication could cause strokes. Strokes a re complicated injuries and can be very severe. The difficulty in proving such claims arises from the variety of other factoors that can lead to a stroke. Some understanding of the different knds of strokes is helpful. Strokes that involve a bleeding in the...

• Ketek Investigation Continues

  Robert Blanchard | January 30, 2008 9:04 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Democrats have now subpoenaed workers in the FDA to determine how in the world they approved Ketek despite scientific concerns over its safety. The new antibiotic ended up killing people from liver damage. Turns out the clinical trials were falsified and at least one doctor has gone to prison. Still no one at Aventis or the FDA has yet to be punished, so well intentioned lawmakers are at least...

• Antibiotic Ketek - How Many Must Die?

  Robert Blanchard | April 25, 2007 6:43 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  It has been over 9 months since Dr. David Graham, an FDA safety official stated in his June 16, 2006 memo that Ketek should be withdrawn. He said approval of the drug was a "mistake" and contended that "every principle concerning the review and approval of new drugs was abandoned or suspended where [Ketek] is concerned."Dr. Graham believes the benefits of Ketek are outweighed by the risk of...

• New Ruling in Celebrex cases

  Robert Blanchard | November 28, 2007 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Judge Brier has just ruled in the Celebrex cases that the 200 milligram daily dosagethat was common for Celebrex has not been scientifically shown to cause heart attacks and strokes. You may recall that Celebrex is the Cox-2 inhibitor drug just like Vioxx that hasbeen subject to allegations that its use causes heart attacks and strokes, very much like Vioxx.This may sound like very good news...

• Heart ByPass Drug Recalled

  Robert Blanchard | November 05, 2007 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  If you are soon to receive a heart bypass, at least you won't face the propsect ohf being given the medication known as Trasylol. After consultation with agencies in the U.S., Canada, and Germany, the drug manufacturer has announced that it is wiithdrawing the drug worldwide. See Article. The FDA approved the drug in 1993 and started re-evaluating the drug's side effects after the publication ...

• Another Contact Lens Solution Causes Injuries

  Robert Blanchard | May 29, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As we looked at injury cases from the Bosch and Lomb Renu with MoisturLoc contact lens solution, we noticed a number of cases of Acanthamoeba infection. This is different from the fusarium fungal infection that had been most widely cited in relation to the Renu product, so predictably Bosch and Lomb denied any relationship between its product an Acanthamoeba infections. As if it it just couldn't...

• FDA ASKED MERCK TO WARN OF FOSAMAX RISK IN 2004

  Robert Blanchard | April 18, 2006 10:19 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A lot of doctors were surprised to learn that the FDA had asked Merck of the risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw and Fosamax back in August 2004 - - right at the same time Merck was forced by circumstances to pull Vioxx from the shelves. Merck has yet to put any information in its WARNINGS about the risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw and Fosamax.After my partner Tim O'Brien's article appeared in the...

• More Heparin Problems

  Robert Blanchard | January 26, 2008 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On the heals of the newly expanded recall of Am2Pat pre-filled hepain syringes for bacterial contamination, another manufacturer (Baxter) has annnounced a recall nearly 10% of its yearly heparin production. The press is implying a link to the case filed by actor Dennis Quaid over the overdosing of his two infant children by poorly labeled heparin, but the vials involved are actually different....

• Beware Phony Botox

  Robert Blanchard | June 14, 2007 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A more hellish scenario is hard to imagine: you go in for cosmetic Botox injections and find yourself unable to speak or breathe. Eric Kaplan spent months trapped in his own body after the couple were injected with a "homemade brew" of Botox. The selling of phony and low grade Botox is not an isolated problem, there are reports of low grade Botox being for as little as 10$ for an injection size...