Statins are drugs that are commonly prescribed to lower cholesterol. It’s estimated about one-quarter of all Americans over the age of 45 with high cholesterol is prescribed a statin to avoid a heart attack or stroke. They are generally thought of as safe, but researchers have linked these drugs to […]
Category: Defective Drugs
It is unclear what caused the deaths of two patients injected with the anti-psychotic medication Zyprexa, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating. According to the FDA, the two died a few days after being injected with Zyprexa Relprevv. The drug’s warning label contains information about delirium sedation […]
FDA agents have discovered that employees at the Houston office of Cetero Research tampered with records and manipulated test data. This firm has conducted research for drug companies worldwide. Chinna Pamidi, the testing facility’s president, bluntly admitted that much of the lab’s work was fraudulent, saying “You got us” when […]
Scientific studies have shown that certain types of diabetes drugs can increase the risk of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in users. This class of drugs, known as incretin mimetics, mimics the incretin hormones that the body usually produces naturally to stimulate the release of insulin in response to a meal. […]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 20 patients injured by a Tennessee compounding pharmacy preparation, including 13 patients in Florida. The Main Street Family Pharmacy of Newbern, Tennessee recalled its lots of sterile product after an outbreak of skin abscesses, one of which […]
Nexium – its effective marketing directly to consumers reminds Americans it is the “little purple pill” designed to treat acid reflux disease. Nexium, manufactured by AstraZeneca, is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) prescribed to treat heartburn, acid-reflux, and inflammation of the esophagus. But plaintiffs allege that Nexium may cause a […]
The controversial cancer treatment drug Avastin (bevacizumab) has one more warning attached to it – the drug has been associated with two deaths and 52 cases of flesh-eating disease. The drug’s maker, Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd., identified the cases of necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacteria) occurring worldwide from 1997 to 2012. Both the […]
It has long been suspected that certain types of cholesterol-fighting statin drugs might present a risk for new-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) and that the risk might be dose dependent. Statins are used to prevent heart attacks and strokes by lowering cholesterol. An analysis of clinical trials involving over 113,000 […]
Millions of Americans live with type-2 diabetes and many are taking some of the medications now at the focus of a couple of concerning reports. A newly published report finds people taking some diabetes drugs are facing a higher than expected number of startling effects on the pancreas, a possible […]
This may be the first time that the Food and Drug Administration’s adverse event reporting database has been used to research the outcome of taking an osteoporosis drug, also known as bisphosphonates. In a published study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Feinberg School of Medicine […]
