New York City Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

The FDA has issued a safety alert for the diabetes drug Avandia. The drug has been on the market for eight years and is used world wide. Avandia is manufactured by Glaxo. A study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine that linked the drug with an increased rate of heart attack and death. The adverse drug reaction database has received approximately 28 Canadian reports of heart...

A report from AssociatedContent.com says that the Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has recently proposed the idea of drug makers putting more label warnings of Paxil and other antidepressant drugs for those under age 25. The reason for this stems from studies that show an increase in suicidal thoughts when people under age 25 take antidepressant drugs such as Paxil. Apparently GlaxoSmithKline,...

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a judge said yesterday that he plans to approve a $64 million class-action settlement between Paxil manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline and parents whose children took the drug for depression.The news story reports:Paxil was once touted as an answer to teen depression. It was later thought to have increased the risk of suicidal thinking in young people, some of...

The makers of the cold sore medication Abreva were accused of falsely claiming in ads that the medication cut healing time in half. The defendants, Avanir Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKiline Consumer Healthcare, settled the lawsuit but admitted to no wrongdoing. As part of the settlement, the companies will print 50 million newspaper discount coupons nationwide and will pay up to $1 million for...

A leading publication reports that researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute found that women in their 60s and 70s who take hormone therapy are at an increased risk for heart attacks. A leading publication reports that researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute found that women in their 60s and 70s who take hormone therapy are at an increased risk for heart...

The pharmaceutical industry is facing an increasing number of private and government lawsuits accusing them of influencing doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label usesThe pharmaceutical industry is facing an increasing number of private and government lawsuits accusing them of influencing doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label uses. The industry claims that it is being unfairly penalized for...

The dangers of using Paxil, a widely prescribed antidepressant drug, are increasingly reported among patients who have become pregnant and had children with severe or deadly birth defects.In December 2005, the FDA released an alert about the risk of Paxil birth defects. Following is an exerpt from that report: The Food and Drug Administration today is alerting health care professionals and...

The FDA released an Alert in July 2006 about the increased risk of deadly birth defects in babies whose mothers were using Paxil. The alert reads as follows:FDA ALERT [7/2006]: Increased Risk of Neonatal Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension A recently published case-control study has shown that infants born to mothers who took selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) after the 20th week of...

Pet owners and authorities are starting to worry about the safety of animal medicines echoing worries regarding human drugs such as Vioxx.Tested on only a couple hundred animals, a drug meant for pets is less likely than a drug for humans to show all its failings and shortcomings until it reaches market, say veterinarians. Over 700 drugs have been approved for pets, but several others are used...

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...

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...

Now this has to scare you a little. "Approximately one out of every five medications prescribed by US physicians are for conditions that the drugs have not been approved for by the FDA, new study results suggest. Moreover, three quarters of these off-label uses are not backed by strong scientific evidence for safety and efficacy, the authors report." Dr. Randall S. Stafford, at the Stanford...

http://vioxx.trickydns.com/index.asp --- This is an interesting approach taken by Merck in the continuing VIoxx saga. Merck has decided to launch a website to defend themselves publicly. Is it a stunt? You have to wonder if the litigation is starting to take a toll on Merck and more imporantly their finances. Merck can say what they want on a website but the facts have said otherwise.

fungal eye infection Fusarium Keratitis are being reported around the world and Bausch & Lomb announced today that it would withdraw the Moisture Loc Renu product worldwide and acknowledged that a "large number of factors" have combined to put users of Bausch & Lomb's ReNu Moisture Loc at increased risk of developing the rare but potentially dangerous fungal infection of Fusarium Keratitis. ...

Osteonecrosis (pronounced OSS-tee-oh-ne-KRO-sis) of the jaw is an uncommon condition that involves the loss, or breakdown, of the jaw bone. It can be a serious condition. Symptoms include, but are not limited to:• Pain, swelling, or infection of the gums • Loosening of teeth • Poor healing of the gums • Numbness or the feeling of heaviness in the jaw To diagnose osteonecrosis of the jaw,...