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Category Archives: Dangerous Drugs
Protecting Children From Poisoning and Suffocation
According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there was a 29% decline in accidental deaths among children under age 20 from 2000 to 2009. However, deaths from poisoning and suffocation increased substantially. Poisoning deaths … Continue reading
FDA Safety Alerts – Dangerous Drugs & Defective Products Info
MedWatch, the FDA’s Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program has been busy, as usual. February alone included the following Safety Alerts about dangerous drugs and defective products— • Important safety label changes for the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs known … Continue reading
Space Heaters Can Pose a Fire Hazard
Winter is prime season for space heaters in homes, offices, and garages. But before you switch on, make sure the model you’re using hasn’t been recalled – like the Meijer Touch Point Oscillating Ceramic Heater. The CPSC and SaferProducts.gov have … Continue reading
GlaxoSmithKline — $3 Billion Settlement for Illegal Marketing of Drugs
GlaxoSmithKline, the 4th largest drug company in the world, has reached an agreement in principle to pay a $3 billion settlement as a result of U.S. civil and criminal investigations into its sales practices for numerous drugs, including Avandia (a … Continue reading
Actos (pioglitazone) and Bladder Cancer – FDA Warning
Actos (pioglitazone) is one of the largest-selling oral medications sold to control blood sugar levels. Millions of prescriptions for this medication are filled each year by diabetics. Because of the millions of prescriptions written for this medication, when the FDA recently issued … Continue reading
Topamax and Topiramate Linked to Birth Defects — FDA Warning
Topamax and it’s generic, topiramate, are anti-convulsant medications that can help prevent or minimize certain types of seizures, as well as migraine headaches. According to the FDA, approximately 32.3 million prescriptions were dispensed for these drugs between January 2007 and … Continue reading
Drug Companies Pay $14.8 Billion in Fines and Settlements
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greediest of them all?
$14.8 billion in pharmaceutical settlements have been paid out in the last five years!
Over half of those settlements were with just four drug makers:
Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Merck. They do the same bad things over and over.
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Darvon & Darvocet (Propoxyphene) Withdrawn by FDA
The consumer safety watchdog group, Public Citizen’s Health Research Group have been lobbying the FDA for years. Their efforts first began in 1978 when they urged the FDA to ban the drugs Darvon & Darvocet on the basis of dangerous side effects to the heart. Continue reading
