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Mar-8-07 Washington, DC Most women take the Ortho Evra Patch because it is more convenient than the birth control pill - they don't have to remember to take it every day. But the Patch has proven to be way more inconvenient than the pill. According to the latest research involving insurance claims data from about 34,000 women, the risk of blood clots occur mor... - High Death Rate Reported With Bayer's Trasylol
Feb-17-07 Washington, DC: For over a year, Bayer has been under fire over the drug Trasylol , and now Dr Dennis Mangano, the lead author of new study in the February 7, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association, says the drug may be responsible for 10,000 deaths over five years. Trasylol (aprotinin) was FDA approved for sale in the US in 1993, as an anti... - Depakote Adversely Prescribed
Feb-15-07 Pewaukee, WI In October 2006, the FDA approved safety labeling changes for Depakote . It warns that Depakote can cause harm to an unborn baby, particularly in the first trimester, and not to use Depakote without your doctor's consent if you are pregnant. For one new mother, the warning may have come too late. Tara Devereaux was taking Depakote and th... - Trasylol Studies Terminated
Jan-30-07 Boston, MA: In response to FDA-approved label changes for Trasylol , Bayer HealthCare has announced it will terminate three studies meant to expand the use of the drug. Trasylol is used to reduce blood loss during coronary artery bypass surgery. The studies included examining the effectiveness of the drug in patients undergoing elective spinal fusion s... - No End in Sight for Fen-Phen Lawsuits
Jan-29-07 Rutherford, NJ: On December 5, 2006, five women with ages ranging from 53 to 71, who took the appetite suppressants drugs known as fen-phen in 1996 and 1997, filed lawsuits against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals after being diagnosed with a life-threatening lung disorder. These lawsuits demonstrate that the harm caused by fen-phen can surface many years after a... - Ethicon's Panacryl Lawsuits
Jan-28-07 New York, NY: Just like history repeating itself, Ethicon now faces liability lawsuits similar to its Vicryl sutures lawsuits more than a decade ago. This time the product is Panacryl sutures. Ethicon was sued after a recall of 3.5 million packages of its Vicryl brand of sutures in 1994 -- the sutures were contaminated due to a faulty sterilizer. Now,... - Work Environment Breaks Several California Labor Laws
Jan-19-07 Los Angeles, CA Not only was Jose Velasquez subjected to working in a hazardous environment, he wasn't paid overtime for working through lunches and breaks. This went on for almost four years, until he finally quit on December 1, 2006. Needless to say, his family didn't have a Merry Christmas. "I had no choice but to quit," says Velasquez. "My general... - Zyprexa Judge decides which Journalists have First Amendment Rights
Jan-16-07 Washington, DC The judge issuing injunctions in the Eli Lilly- Zyprexa -Documents case has decided that reporters at the New York Times enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment but that other reporters and media outlets do not. The secret documents at the center of this hailstorm were provided to the New York Times, and several other journalis... - SSRIs and the Warning Signs
Jan-11-07 San Jose, CA Increasingly, new information and studies regarding SSRIs are warnings about the risks of birth defects if taken during pregnancy. It is now known that the use of any SSRI antidepressant in the first trimester of pregnancy is dangerous. One study resulted in a 40% increase in birth defects and more specifically a 60% increased risk in car... - Novartis failed to Warn about Elidel Cancer Link
Dec-28-06 Washington, DC: Most lawsuits in which drug makers have tried to use preemption to dismiss failure-to-warn claims have been against companies accused of failing to warn about the risk of suicide associated with antidepressants known as selective serotonin inhibitors or SSRIs. However, a case in Pennsylvania against Novartis, involves a toddler who devel... - Spine Surgery performed much too Often
Dec-23-06 New Jersey: For senior citizens, the chances of receiving spine surgery, along with the serious complications that often follow, depends on where a patient lives, according to researchers from Dartmouth Medical School in the November 2006 medical journal Spine. For the study, the researchers analyzed data on lower back (lumbar) surgery among Medicare re... - Flu Vaccines - Open Season
Dec-15-06 For all the frantic, unvaccinated citizens fearing the "upcoming" peak of flu season—rest assured, coming down with a flu infection is the least of your worries. Despite the governments statements urging individuals to vaccinate their children, the threat of an infantile influenza fatality is just about as serious as the dreaded hangnail. Noneth... - Mental Illness Epidemic Hits US
Dec-7-06 Washington, DC: In the run-up to the December 13, 2006, meeting of the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, to review the suicidality data from adult SSRI studies, a host of newly identified disorders have been popping up in the media, all treatable with SSRIs. The committee is expected to vote on whether the association between the sel... - Biggest Off-Label Drug Marketing Scheme in US History - Part I
Nov-30-06 Washington, DC: The promotion and sale of two classes of psychiatric drugs, the atypical antipsychotics and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants (SSRIs), will go down in history as the most successful off-label marketing scheme of all time. But unfortunately, before the illegal scheme takes its rightful place in the law books, a lot m... - An interview with Trasylol lawyer George Otstott
Nov-28-06 Trasylol spells big profits for the drug manufacturer Bayer AG, but at what cost to its recipients? For countless patients who were given Trasylol during open heart surgery, it has meant renal failure and other severe, often fatal, side affects. Trasylol is administered during open heart surgery. It works to slow or prevent bleeding, and is used to reduce... - SSRI Warning to Pregnant Women
Nov-22-06 Up to 20 percent of women have clinical depression at some time during their lives, and in many women, depression does not improve during pregnancy. Most commonly prescribed antidepressants are known as Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). In May 2005, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh estimated in the Journal of American Medica... - Big Pharma's Battle Over Direct to Consumer Advertising
Nov-21-06 Big Pharma has Americans running to the doctor demanding the latest advertised drug to treat the latest promoted disorder based on the latest commercial they see on TV. According to a report by CBS News on October 22, 2006, the United States makes up just 5 percent of the world's population, "but it accounts for a whopping 42 percent of the world's spen... - Unscientific Depression Screenings and Front Groups Boost SSRI Sales
Nov-10-06 USA: Prior to the arrival of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRIs) on the market, depression was estimated to affect only 100 people per million. And those 100 people per million sought help from a medical professional trained in psychiatry and the treatment of depression. Since the introduction of SSRIs, rates for dep... - Paxil, Pregnancy and Birth Defects
Nov-9-06 Newfoundland, PA "My psychiatrist prescribed Paxil when I was three months pregnant," says Jaime Curtis. "I feel like it is my fault that I did this to my kid; it just breaks my heart when he can't breathe." Jaime was never told about Paxil's link to birth defects. "I had a normal pregancy, just like my other two, and Geoni was born just five days... - ACE Inhibitors and Birth Defects - More Expensive and Less Effective
Nov-9-06 Boston, MA: About one in every four American adults has high blood pressure which is a major risk factor for heart and kidney disease, as well as stroke and heart failure, but often occurs with no warning signs. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against blood vessel walls. The heart pumps blood into the arteries which carry the blood througho...