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Sort by date 373 pages found matching paxil- SSRI Birth Defects" The Only High Risk Factor I had Was Being on Effexor"
Jan-15-09 Winnipeg, SK Pam was told by both her family doctor and her obstetrician that the antidepressant she was taking, namely effexor , was safe for her to continue taking through her pregnancy. But within hours of her son being born, he had been admitted to the natal intensive care unit, suffering from seizures and breathing difficulties. "My son had a sm... - SSRI Pushers under Fire: Part 2: America's Most Wanted
Jan-12-09 Washington, DC Most doctors who attended conferences, medical seminars and other events throughout the 1990s were not aware that the so-called "key opinion leaders" encouraging them to prescribe the new generation of antidepressants for everything under the sun, including to children as young as infants, were nothing more than highly paid drug pushers fo... - 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 Birth Defects: "My Daughter was Born with four Heart Defects"
Nov-24-08 Manitowoc, WI Amy quit taking effexor in her first trimester of pregnancy but she had been taking the antidepressant for roughly 2 years prior to that. Her baby girl was born with heart defects, and given the research she has done, Amy believes effexor may have caused the birth defects. "At some point, early in my pregnancy, I asked my doctor if it w... - The Link Between Car Crashes and Antidepressants
Aug-30-08 Boston, MA The next time somebody T-bones you at an intersection causing an automobile crash , have your lawyer check to see if the other driver was taking antidepressants. There's a good chance that may be the case, according to a recent study that raises concern with regard to the relationship between antidepressant use, and driving skills. The stud... - 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... - Roger Drake: Attorney Believes More Avandia Cases To Come
Jul-27-08 Los Angeles, CA The legal team at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman in Los Angeles is among the most successful drug liability litigators in the country. It has fought and won hundreds of personal injury and wrongful death cases against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) related to the antidepressant Paxil. Now attorney Roger Drake at the firm is re... - Over the Counter Meds: How Safe Are They?
Jul-19-08 Washington, DC With a prescription, you are at least getting some intervention and experience—and some restrictions—when required to ingest a medication. And as dangerous as some meds appear to be, you benefit from a second pair of eyes with decades of medicinal trench warfare behind them. However, how safe are over the counter medications ? And who,... - Chantix: Driven to Quit, Driven to Despair
Feb-21-08 Washington, DC The on-line posts and the stories just keep coming—disgruntled users of Chantix who report depression, aggression or even suicidal thoughts themselves, or similar behavior from friends and loved ones taking Chantix in an effort to quit smoking. Others appear fine on Chantix. The anti-smoking drug from Pfizer, which is not a pat... - Lawsuit Filed Against GlaxoSmithKline by Heart Bypass Patient
Feb-16-08 Philadelphia, PA On February 12, 2008, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by Pat and Sandra Kelly of Grove, Oklahoma against GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of the poplar diabetes drug, Avandia. The lawsuit states that GSK was negligent, committed fraud, breached its warranty, failed to warn about the risks a... - Lawsuit Against GSK Alleges Avandia To Blame For Injury Requiring Heart Bypass Surgery
Feb-13-08 Philadelphia, PA: Pat Kelly and his wife Sandra Kelly of Grove, Oklahoma, filed a lawsuit on February 12, 2008, against Philadelphia-based GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK"), the maker of Avandia , in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - Case 2:08-cv-00667-RK, accusing GSK of causing serious injury to Mr. Kelly due to its negligence, fr... - Trasylol Fiasco - FDA Fails To Protect Americans Again - Part I
Feb-1-08 Washington, DC: On November 5, 2007, the FDA announced that Bayer Pharmaceuticals had suspended the marketing of Trasylol after preliminary results of a Canadian study indicated that patients may also have a greater risk of death than patients taking either of two other drugs. The Canadian study, Blood Antifibrinolytics Randomized Trial (BART), led... - Zyprexa: Suicide can be a Side Effect of Drugs
Jan-10-08 Washington, DC: The news is getting harder and harder to ignore. More drugs are being linked to an increased risk of violence and suicide. While some people would argue that, at least in the case of Zyprexa, it is the underlying condition of the patient that increases the risk of suicide, there are more drugs being linked to this risk, making it more dif... - SSRIs and Newborns
Dec-12-07 Toronto, ON When mothers took SSRIs during pregnancy, "The babies couldn't be consoled, they didn't sleep well, cried a lot, were difficult to feed and had tremors," explains Dr. Gideon Koren, Director and Professor of Motherisk, a program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto dedicated to antenatal drug, chemical, and disease risk counselling. S... - Spin Doctor: Behind the Scenes of Drug Detailing
Nov-26-07 Newburyport, MA It's called the drug lunch, and it has nothing to do with hippies rolling a few joints and toking up during their mid-day meal break. Rather, the drug lunch appears to be a valued marketing tool for the big pharma drug companies, where doctors are paid to talk to other doctors and the medical community at large, about drug products. It's... - PPH: Get a Check-Up Before it's Too Late
Oct-2-07 Orangeburg, SC Doctors believe that Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) is on the rise. And judging from the amount of PPH class action lawsuits [ filed ], so does the legal profession. PPH is one of the most insidious of illnesses because it can take up to ten years or more to be diagnosed: people who took diet drugs such as Fen Phen or Redux in the 19... - Psychotropic Drug Makers Bankroll Prescribing Shrinks Part I
Aug-30-07 Washington, DC: On August 21, 2007, the Associated Press reported that drug companies spend a lot of money on the members of Minnesota advisory panels who help select the drugs which are to be used by patients covered by Medicaid. The news agency's review of financial disclosure records in Minnesota found that a doctor and a pharmacist on the 8-member p... - 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... - SSRIs and Birth Defects: More Data Urgently Needed
Jun-1-07 Atlanta, GA There is a problem out there for prospective mothers and fathers. The problem is that instead of being able to find good information on the interplay between SSRIs (a group of antidepressants including Zoloft, Paxil and Prozac) and safe pregnancy, there is a big black void. In its information on medication use during pregnancy and breastfe... - Lawmakers Want to End Big Pharma Recruitment Schemes - Part 1
May-29-07 Washington, DC: Federal lawmakers are stepping up the pace to put a stop to the pharmaceutical industry's customer recruitment schemes used to boost the sale of psychiatric drugs by tugging at heartstrings in promoting mental health screening programs as suicide prevention tools. On May 18, 2007, US House of Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), a physicia...