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After hearing tearful testimony this week of the family members who recently lost loved ones treated with contaminated batches of the popular blood-thinner Heparin. Heparin was recalled in...

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Yesterday the families of some of those who lost lives after being treated with a contaminated blood thinner, Heparin, told their stories to a House committee. The congressional panel listened...

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Today the Actavis Totowa LLC in conjunction with the FDA issued a Class I recall of all Digitek tablets. Digitek is used to treat abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure;...

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Late Friday the makers of Claritin and Singulair announced that the FDA has rejected an application for a pill combining the two drugs. Singulair, sold by Merck, is a popular medication used to...

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The data is out and Pfizer’s prescription stop smoking aid Chantix was the most commonly searched medication on the Internet in the month of February. According to comScore, an Internet...

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Yesterday a House panel reprimanded the FDA for their poor performance when inspecting foreign-made medications, in the aftermath of the recall of contaminated batches of the blood thinner...

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders among children. Physicians often prescribe medications to treat the symptoms of ADHD with very limited proof...

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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals case of a South Carolina adolescent that was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole, at the age of 12,...

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Last fall an FDA panel unanimously voted in favor of keeping Bayer’s Trasylol on the market. The panel was convened after a New England Journal of Medicine article suggested that the drug put...

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Over the past year the reports of adverse reactions to Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug Chantix have been mounting at a furious pace. After an analysis of the adverse events associated with Chantix,...

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The Consumer Union advocacy group has petitioned the FDA to require television prescription drug advertisements to include a toll free number and a website address where consumers can report adverse...

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According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine deadlines for response to new drug applications may be causing the agency to make hasty decisions. The study suggests that drugs approved closer to the deadline end up having more safety issues once on the market than drugs that are approved earlier in the process. The study shows that of the 97 drugs that were approved within...

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Today the FDA announced that they would be launching a probe to investigate a possible link between Merck's asthma medication Singulair and suicidal ideation and action. The agency is reviewing the issue due to reports of mood and behavioral changes, including suicidal thoughts and action, associated with the drug. Singulair is most commonly used to treat asthma but is also often used to treat...

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A San Francisco couple has filed a lawsuit against Bayer and other drug manufacturers alleging that gadolinium based contrasted agents manufactured and distributed by the Defendants can cause patients to develop a severely painful and debilitating disease. William Paschal claims that he contracted Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) from an intravenous injection of a gadolinium based contrast...

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Today the state of Connecticut filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co. The lawsuit accuses the company of illegally marketing and obscuring negative side effects of the best selling drug Zyprexa. The lawsuit seeks to recover money spent on treating patients that have developed conditions as a result of taking Zyprexa and millions more spent on the drug as a result of illegal marketing...

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