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• Link Reported Between Hypertension Medicine and Birth Defects

  Denise A. Rubin | June 09, 2006 3:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  A widely prescribed class of drugs used primarily for treatment of hypertension, called "ACE inhibitors" have been linked to birth defects. The drugs, including captopril and lisinopril, can cause bone abnormalities in the skull, inhibition of growth and kidney damage that can kill the fetus or newborn. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 30 percent of fetuses...

• Blood Test Can Cause Significant Injury

  Denise A. Rubin | June 05, 2006 3:51 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  What would you say to someone who told you that having a blood test could cause a major and debilitating injury? Most people don't realize that the smallest invasion of the body, such as a needle stick for a blood draw, can have a whole panoply of dangers associated. Nerve and other injuries from negligent blood draws are sufficiently prevalent that a new area of specialty practice in arm...

• Drugs for Osteoporosis Linked to Bone Death

  Denise A. Rubin | June 02, 2006 5:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Recent reports indicate that the class of drugs used by millions of women to treat osteoporosis has been linked to incidences of osteonecrosis (bone death) of the jaw. Health Columnist Gina Kolata writes in the New York Times:"In the last 10 years, millions of patients have taken a class of drugs that can prevent agonizing broken and deteriorating bones. The drugs once seemed perfectly safe and...