One has to wonder how this will play with stockholders. Johnson & Johnson, the healthcare giant, has agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion to settle criminal charges over the marketing of its antipsychotic drug, Risperdal. The company’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals division is accused of marketing the drug to treat elderly […]
Category: Defective Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sending out conflicting signals when it comes to opioid pain medication. In one move, the agency recommended additional limitations on how a patient in chronic pain can access prescription painkillers. On the same day the agency also approved a stronger version of a […]
A newly published study on the link between osteoporosis drugs and atrial fibrillation (AF) hoped to clear up some of the conflicting results from previous studies. Atrial fibrillation is a common heart irregularity that means the upper chamber of the heart beats chaotically which can mean a lessening in the […]
There was nothing to indicate otherwise, so a Georgia man mixed Tylenol and the prescription painkiller, Vicodin. After all, both drugs were prescribed by his physician. The toxic result was acute liver failure. Now Jonathon Eric Tyler has joined dozens of others who have filed defective product lawsuits after they […]
A new study suggests pregnant women stay far away from prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin, especially early in their pregnancy. Published in Obstetrics Gynecology September and in print, October 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the study that confirmed what research to date […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sending out a warning to patients and health care facilities not to use a preparation for nasal irrigation that may be contaminated. The Compounding Shop in St. Petersburg, Florida created the solution. The 1000 ml bottle of budesonide contained white floating material observed […]
As we age, we are more likely to get cataracts, a cloudy lens in the eye that reduces our ability to see. Researchers from Dallas suspected the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, was correlated with the development of cataracts. Results from a new study prove that assumption is […]
Researchers publishing in the August 27th issue of the online journal Clinical Drug Investigation, report that use of the cancer drug Avastin has been linked to high blood pressure and gastrointestinal bleeding. This is not the first bad news associated with Avastin. The drug was approved by the Food and […]
They look like fun bandages or stickers – eye candy for little children. That’s why parents are being warned about how toxic fentanyl pain patches have been linked to accidental exposures resulting in several child fatalities. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require manufacturers of the fentanyl pain patches to make […]
The search has been on for a new and improved drug treatment for type 2 diabetes that would leave the complications of Avandia in the past. That hasn’t happened. New Class of Diabetes Drugs, DPP-4 The latest findings concern a newer class of diabetes drugs called DPP-4 that lower blood […]
