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  • Valproate Not To Be Used for Migraine During Pregnancy, FDA Warns
    Washington, DC: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising health care professionals and women that the anti-seizure medication valproate sodium (Depakote) and related products, valproic acid and divalproex sodium, are contraindicated and should not be taken by pregnant women for the prevention of migraine headaches. Based on information f...
  • Illinois Man Files Lawsuit over Alleged Depakote Birth Defects
    May-16-11 Fairview Heights, IL A resident of Fairview Heights, Illinois, recently filed a Depakote birth defects lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturer of the seizure medication. The St. Clair Record reports that Myles Brumfield filed the lawsuit, which represents a number of other patients claiming their children suffered defects as a result...
  • Facing Depakote Birth Defects Lawsuits, Abbott CEO's Compensation Drops
    Mar-30-11 Washington, DC With a number of Depakote birth defects lawsuits on the docket, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Abbott Laboratories, which manufactures the anti-seizure drug, saw his total compensation decrease eight percent last year, The Associated Press reports. According to the news provider, CEO Miles White received a total compensation p...
  • Exposure to Depakote During Pregnancy Has Negative Impact on Academics
    Nov-16-10 Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish study published recently in Epilepsia has found that taking multiple anti-epilepsy drugs like Depakote during pregnancy can have a negative impact on the academic abilities of the children, Businessweek reports. The study examined women with epilepsy who gave birth between 1973 and 1986, looking at both the anti-epile...
  • Depakote Side Effects Include Weight Gain
    Oct-26-10 New Orleans, LA There are a number of Depakote side effects but one that may fly under the radar on occasion is that the mood stablizer can cause weight gain. A number of different medications can cause weight gain or at least make it more difficult to lose weight, according to the Times-Picayune . Pharmacist Sal Scaccia, who owns the Total Life...
  • Study Similar to 2005 Depakote Research to Look into AIDS Treatments
    Sep-11-10 Chapel Hill, NC Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will examine whether a cancer drug made by Merck could be a treatment for AIDS. A similar 2005 study found that the bipolar disorder drug Depakote was useful for treating AIDS. The study, led by professor of medicine David Margolis, will test Zolinza on 20 patients with H...
  • Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable--Part 2
    Mar-2-09 Washington, DC December 13, 2006 was a major turning point in the Psychiatric Drugging of Children ; it will probably go down in history as the day the nation awoke to the unthinkable truth that children as young as toddlers were being labeled mentally ill and drugged for profit. On that day, a little 4-year-old girl named Rebecca Riley died of an ov...
  • April 2007 Big Pharma Litigation Update - Drugs (Part II)
    Apr-12-07 Washington, DC: The anti-epileptic drug, Depakote (valproate), marketed by Abbott Laboratories, is one of the most heavily prescribed medications for off-label use. Experts say the evidence of harm caused by Depakote is just beginning to emerge. According to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania psychiatrist, Dr Stefan Kruszewski, a recognized expert on psychotropic...
  • European Medicine Agency Warns of High Rate of Developmental Problems with Depakote (Valproate) During Pregnancy
    Oct-15-14 Los Angeles, CA The risk for malformations and developmental problems in children exposed to depakote (valproate semisodium) during pregnancy has prompted The European Medicine Agency (EMA)'s Pharmacovigilance and Risk Assessment Committee to recommend strengthening the restrictions for the use of valproate in women of childbearing age. Specificall...
  • Certain Medications Linked to Autism
    Aug-29-12 Seattle, WA The link between autism and medicines is still not well understood, although research suggests links between maternal use of certain medications and autism. For example, a link between the use of SSRIs and autism has been suggested in preliminary research, although more research must be done to further establish the link. The concern for...
  • “I’m Fighting This ER Bill All the Way” Says ER Overcharges Victim
    Jul-2-12 Corsicana, TX Acting on the advice of a doctor at her local clinic, Robin went to the Dallas hospital emergency room with symptoms of food poisoning—nausea and diarrhea. Turns out, she simply had a urinary tract infection and was sent home after a few hours with two prescriptions. Then she received an ER bill for more than $3,000. “These Emer...
  • Generic Form of Depakote Receives FDA Approval
    Apr-14-11 Mumbai, India India-based Unichem Laboratories recently received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its divalproex sodium delayed-release tablets, a generic form of Depakote . According to a release from the pharmaceutical company, other forms of the tablets have annual sales of approximately $590 million in the US. ...
  • Journalist Feels Daughter's Eating Disorder Caused by Effexor Side Effects
    Jan-9-11 Dallas, TX Terri Rimmer is a journalist and mother who has been trying to figure out for years what lay at the root of her daughter's eating disorder. She now believes that taking Effexor while she was pregnant with her daughter, now 10, is the culprit. Effexor side effects have been hotly debated with regard to pregnancy and the need for women to rema...
  • FDA Tags Entire Class of Drugs for Risk of Suicide
    Dec-17-08 Washington, DC As if the current economic morass America finds itself in isn't enough to drive people to despair, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that patients prescribed antiepileptic drugs could face the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The agency has mandated that a veritable basket of drugs, used to treat everything from...
  • FDA Imposes Warnings of Suicidality on Anti-Epileptic Medications
    Jun-7-08 Washington, DC Warnings of suicidal thoughts and behavior are being finalized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for labeling of all anti-seizure medications. The announcement came earlier this week, from the FDA, who is working with the pharmaceutical companies on this matter. It is worth noting, however that anti-epileptic drugs are not just...
  • It's Time To Sue Doctors Who Prescribe Drugs Off-Label Part II
    Aug-17-07 Washington, DC: Experts say the serious side effects associated with the use of the 3-drug cocktail of Seroquel, Depakote and Clonidine prescribed to Rebecca Riley when she was 2 and a half-years-old that resulted in her slow and torturous death two and a-half-years later should be known to all prescribing doctors by now. According to police reports, Re...
  • It's Time To Sue Doctors Who Prescribe Drugs Off-Label Part I
    Aug-15-07 Washington, DC: Critics say the tens of thousands of lawsuits filed against the drug giants have had little impact when it comes to dismantling the off-label drug marketing schemes and therefore, there needs to be an all out campaign of highly publicized lawsuits filed against the doctors serving as middle man pushers, one by one by one. It is illegal...
  • Lyrica and Topamax: Same but Different
    Dec-15-16 Washington, DC: Studies have shown that some anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are safer than others during pregnancy. For instance, Lyrica is classified as Category C while Topamax has Category D status. But both AEDs have been associated with birth defects. Pregnancy Category D means there is positive evidence of human fetal risk based on human d...
  • Woman Survives Stevens Johnson Syndrome Ordeal
    Mar-4-16 Miami, FL : Patients taking medications are aware there are side effects to watch out for, but they may not realize that some medications come with a risk of a life-threatening condition known as Stevens Johnson Syndrome. Lawsuits have been filed against drugmakers, doctors, and other health care providers, alleging patients were not adequately warned a...
  • Study Examines Topamax Side Effects
    Jun-25-13 Baton Rouge, LA A new study involving topiramate (Topamax) compared the risk of Topamax side effects to those of valproate (Depakote) and found that the risk of certain topiramate side effects was lower than the risk of valproate side effects. Although those findings might be of some comfort to women taking Topamax, other studies published this year po...
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