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Sort by relevance 373 pages found matching paxil- 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... - SSRI May Have Caused Reflux Disease
Jan-4-08 Elkin, NC: SSRIs can cause many serious problems for infants and children. Many people associate the use of SSRIs while pregnant with birth defects such as primary pulmonary hypertension and other lung and heart problems. However, Theresa H. (not her real name) says that she thinks taking Paxil and Zoloft may have caused her child to develop gastro-esoph... - Preemption - Bush Administration Backs Medtronic in Supreme Court - Part I
Jan-1-08 Washington, DC: Under the arguments made before the US Supreme Court on December 4, 2007, by Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, on behalf of the Bush Administration, in support of the medical device maker Medtronic, American citizens injured by a defective device would not be allowed to sue the manufacturer of a product, ever. In a nutshell, the g... - Nurse's Family Files Avandia Wrongful Death Lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline
Dec-18-07 San Diego, CA Rogelio Larosa and his adult son, Eric, of National City, San Diego County, California, filed a lawsuit on Monday, December 17, 2007, against Philadelphia-based GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK"), the maker of Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate), in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego) accusing GSK of causing the wrongful death o... - 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... - Paxil Birth Defects: Mothers Wonder What They Did Wrong
Nov-27-07 Bullhead City, AZ: Stacy U. had been taking Paxil for about three years to help relieve her panic attacks when she found out she was pregnant. She took Paxil for the first few months of her pregnancy but stopped taking it when her doctor decided that Paxil might be too risky for the unborn baby. Because of another problem, blood clots in her uterus, 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... - Zyprexa: Highest Rate of Suicides in its Class
Nov-15-07 Houston, TX A drug prescribed to combat agitation, has the potential to cause agitation: such is the disconnect often found in the drug world and in this case Zyprexa , which has been linked to several serious side effects including diabetes and stroke, and has generated much lawsuit activity. Most damning of all, is the reality that a drug which is... - World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in the US - Part II
Oct-27-07 Washington, DC: Mathy Milling Downing was a featured speaker at the annual conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and told the audience that her anger is directed toward the FDA and drug companies, "for their incompetence and lack of concern for innocent children they have helped to kill, my little girl included."... - World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in the US - Part I
Oct-25-07 Washington, DC: On October 12, 2007, experts in the field of psychiatry and child development from all over the world arrived in Washington to attend the annual conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. This year's conference focused on one specific goal - to end the mass-prescribing of psychiatric drugs to children... - 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... - Taking Paxil While Pregnant is Risky
Sep-30-07 Phoenix, AZ: Alena Valerio was born at 35 weeks and weighed around six pounds. Her mother was on Paxil throughout her pregnancy. When she was born the doctors detected a heart murmur that did not go away during her first month. So Alena was sent to a pediatric cardiologist who diagnosed her with pulmonary stenosis - a narrowing of the pulmonary valve... - Zyprexa Linked to Suicide Risk
Sep-22-07 Houston, TX Zyprexa , an atypical antipsychotic drug, has been linked to an increased risk of suicide. Clinical trials for Zyprexa have found that patients taking the drug are more likely to commit suicide than patients on any other antipsychotic medication. Lawsuits are now being filed against the maker of Zyprexa, alleging the company knew about the ri... - Paxil: "Absolutely do not take it."
Sep-15-07 Westminster, CO: When Rhonda Aldrich found out she was pregnant, she told her doctor she was taking Paxil and asked if there were any concerns about the drug. She notes her doctor said, "There is nothing on the label stating that Paxil will harm the baby." So Aldrich continued taking Paxil. Aldrich says that while she was in labor, the baby's oxygen... - Mom to Other Women: Don't Take Paxil While Pregnant
Sep-12-07 Smithfield, MS: When Tammy Smithey learned she was pregnant in the fall of 2004, she called her ob-gyn to ensure that Paxil was safe for her to continue taking. Smithey had been on Paxil for a few years, but was concerned that it might have negative effects on her baby. Her ob-gyn told her that Paxil was okay to take while pregnant. On her first visit... - Mother's Warning to Women: Do Not Take Paxil While Pregnant
Sep-5-07 Waterloo, IA: Julie Edgington started taking Paxil one month before she became pregnant and stopped taking it by the end of the third month of pregnancy. "I asked the doctor about Paxil and he said 'Paxil shouldn't be a problem," Edgington says, but she decided to stop taking it after three months. Unfortunately, her unborn baby had already been expos... - 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... - SSRI-Induced Akathisia's Link To Suicide and Violence
Aug-18-07 Washington, DC: Medical experts have long known that the side effect associated with the class of antidepressants known as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors most likely to drive people to suicide or violence against others is "akathisia". Akathisia is but one in a long list of side effects that SSRI makers were able to keep hidden, as they set... - 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... - CDC Leads SSRI Disinformation Media Blitz
Jul-20-07 Washington, DC: In a June 27, 2007 press release that made headlines all over the world the US Centers for Disease Control announced that birth defects associated with the use of antidepressants by pregnant women are rare. As proof for this claim, the CDC cited two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Over the following 2 week...