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Jan-25-10 Charlotte, NC Fixodent denture adhesive has been linked to adverse health effects, largely due to the amount of zinc found within the product. This includes frequent complaints of nerve damage from longtime users of denture cream, like Johnny Howell. Howell, a 20-year user of both Fixodent and Poligrip, recently began losing feeling in his legs while... - Was GlaxoSmithKline Worried About Avandia Risks?
Sep-23-09 Seattle, WA For patients who take Avandia, learning about the risk of Avandia side effects may have come as a complete surprise before the strengthened warnings were added in 2007. However, reports have surfaced that GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Avandia, may have known about the risks before studies were released questioning the drug's safety. An arti... - Lawyer Accuses Drug Company of Ignoring Paxil Risks
Sep-18-09 Philadelphia, PA GlaxoSmithKline ignored evidence about Paxil birth defects, according to a lawyer involved in a lawsuit regarding Paxil heart defects. The lawyer told the jury that Glaxo told scientists to avoid making public the risks of Paxil defects when the antidepressant was used by pregnant women. According to an article in The Philadelphia... - New Study Suggests Avandia Worse than Actos, Glaxo Cries Foul
Aug-23-09 Toronto, ON: New research out of Canada pertaining to Avandia side effects and Avandia risks appears to suggest that patients taking Avandia have a greater chance for developing heart failure—and have a greater risk of death—than those taking rival type 2 diabetes drug Actos. Avandia, made by GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo) and Actos, manufactur... - UK Women Still in the Dark About SSRI Birth Defect Risk
Aug-8-09 Bangor, Wales It will be two years next month that a study of nearly 500,000 women by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center revealed nearly half of women taking an ssri antidepressant had no idea their medication could cause SSRI birth defects . Women in the US aren't unique in that risk. Dr. Tim Kendall, joint director of the U... - Avandia Heart Attack Risk, Questions Remain
May-25-09 Washington, DC Today is a milestone for GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia. According to various sources it was May 25, 1999 that Avandia received regulatory approval for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. However, much has happened in the ten years since Avandia first surfaced with so much promise: various studies and other analyses pointing to heart attack and v... - Avandia Decline Not Affecting GlaxoSmithKline
May-3-09 Philadelphia, PA While profits may have been down in the first quarter when compared to a year ago, Avandia manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo) appears to be doing well. And while the risk for heart attack and other Avandia side effects continues for Type 2 diabetes patients—and critics continue to lobby for an Avandia recall—Glaxo's own health appe... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 3 of 3
Apr-14-09 PART ONE - PART TWO The prescribing of seven drugs, including two antipsychotics and five antidepressants, to treat OCD is a typical example of the profit-driven drugging that women snagged by the Mother's Act will face, but it's a far cry from the description Katherine wrote about regarding the comparatively minor treatment she received, when she st... - Glaxo Profits Anemic, Avandia Partly to Blame
Feb-23-09 Washington, DC It might be the largest pharmaceutical manufacturer in Europe, but GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo) is in the midst of a restructuring, with job cuts on the horizon. While it has been reported there are many factors behind those struggles, the ongoing debate over the safety and efficacy of Avandia—in concert with recent black box warnings for hear... - You May Not Want to Gamble on Requip, Because You Just Might…
Jan-27-09 Rochester, MN: It boggles the mind that a drug could foster the start of a compulsive Requip gambling habit. But that appears to be the case with Requip, a medication often prescribed to Parkinson's patients and those suffering from restless leg syndrome. As a result Requip compulsive gambling has proven an embarrassing, and costly adverse reaction. The... - Did Avandia Maker Attempt to Stifle Early Warnings?
Jan-25-09 Hagerstown, MD An investigation released November 19th, 2008 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) revealed instances of mistreatment of two doctors who raised some of the earliest warnings with regard to Avandia and links to heart attack . The doctors, both based in the US, reported feeling intimidated after SmithKline Beecham, the forerunner... - New Study Re-affirms Paxil Causes Birth Defects
Dec-7-08 Washington, DC Various Paxil defects , including those associated with newborns, have been known since September 2005. That's when studies first surfaced that suggested a link between the antidepressant and Paxil birth defects. In response the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated GlaxoSmithKline to update product labeling for birth defects, and... - Mother's Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry
Dec-5-08 Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades. Knowledge of these terrible risks would have caused a major drop in sales to this customer b... - SSRI Antidepressants Pushers
Nov-16-08 After twenty long years, it appears that the epidemic in mental disorders in America might be coming to an end. It won't happen because of any great medical breakthrough but rather because the perpetrators of the greatest healthcare fraud in history are finally being exposed. The demolition of the giant "psycho-pharmaceutical complex" appears to be on the ho... - Avandia Heart Attack: Questions Still Remain
Sep-30-08 Washington, DC The Avandia debate continues to provide a basis for confusion in the face of conflicting information. GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo), the makers of Avandia, continues to claim that studies conclude there is no risk of heart attack . However, questions remain. Why does Avandia carry a black box warning? And why was there never an Avandia recall ?... - The FDA Guerillas of Wonky DrugWonks - Part II
Aug-15-08 Continued from Aug-12-08 The tribe of Guerillas operating a Big Pharma public relations firm under cover of the Center for Public Integrity in Medicine may soon be on the path to extinction and the blogs on DrugWonks by the two out-of-control top bananas will likely be cause. Former FDA officials from the Bush Administration organized this industry fun... - The FDA Guerillas of Wonky DrugWonks - Part I
Aug-12-08 Former Bush Administration officials have formed a pharmaceutical industry guerilla group called the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI), described on its website as "a non-partisan, non-profit educational charity," and a "new vital force in health care policy." However, for all intents and purposes, the mission of CMPI front group is to pr... - Avandia: More Questions About Tim Russert
Jul-2-08 Washington, DC In an apparent attempt to put an end to the sugarcoating of the diabetes drug industry, and in the aftermath of Avandia , the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just wrapped up a two-day meeting of the minds to vet the possibility that standards should be changed. That's because two large scientific studies found no evidence that... - Dangerous Asthma Drugs: Short-Term Relief, Long-Term Death
Jun-10-08 Washington, DC Take our dangerous asthma drug . Please. It will relieve your symptoms. Oh, but it could also worsen your asthma, which could kill you. But you'll die happy. Have a nice day. Give us a break. Are you as sick as the rest of us with the 'drugification' of America? They make drugs for everything, and more than half the time the drugs ar... - Industry giants to pay $500,000 settlement in environmental lawsuit.
San Francisco, CA: (May-19-08) The Department of Justice brought charges against GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Motorola Inc., and Siemens Corp., alleging that system failures at the companies' facilities led to the release of trichloroethylene, or TCE, into the public drinking water system in Scottsdale, AZ. The federal complaint stated that the three companies f...