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September 18th, 2008. Smoking cessation drug Chanitx has been under scrutiny in recent months as links to dangerous side effects emerge. Made by drug manufacturer Pfizer, Chanitx was approved by the FDA in 2006 and quickly became a top seller, amassing $883 million its first year on the market. Chantix Timeline May ... [More >>]
February 1st, 2008. (Press Release) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a Public Health Advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and caregivers to new safety warnings concerning Chantix (varenicline), a prescription medication used to help patients stop smoking. On Nov. 20, 2007, FDA issued an Early Communication to the public and ... [More >>]
November 14th, 2007. (Press Release) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that the manufacturer of Avandia (rosiglitazone), a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, has agreed to add new information to the existing boxed warning in the drug's labeling about potential increased risk for heart attacks. People with type 2 diabetes who have ... [More >>]
July 17th, 2007. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that most type-2 diabetics are better off using older, cheaper diabetes drugs than their heavily advertised, newer counterparts. With the exception of those who cannot tolerate specific drugs like Glucophage (metformin), the effectiveness of the older medications was on ... [More >>]
June 29th, 2007. One million type two diabetics in the US, and nearly 6 million worldwide, who take Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate) may be putting themselves at an increased risk of heart attack. Earlier this spring, The New England Journal of Medicine released a study by Dr. Steven Nissen that analyzed the combined results ... [More >>]
May 21st, 2007. (Press Release) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is aware of a potential safety issue related to Avandia (rosiglitazone), a drug approved to treat type 2 diabetes. Safety data from controlled clinical trials have shown that there is a potentially significant increase in the risk of heart attack and heart-related deaths ... [More >>]
March 15th, 2007. Drugs included in the label warning update are the following 13 products: Ambien/Ambien CR (Sanofi Aventis) Butisol Sodium (Medpointe Pharm HLC) Carbrital (Parke-Davis) Dalmane (Valeant Pharm) Doral ... [More >>]
March 14th, 2007. (Press Release) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested that all manufacturers of sedative-hypnotic drug products, a class of drugs used to induce and/or maintain sleep, strengthen their product labeling to include stronger language concerning potential risks. These risks include severe allergic reactions and complex sleep-related behaviors, which may include ... [More >>]
July 28th, 2006. Injured by Zyprexa? Side effects of this antipsychotic drug include diabetes, weight gain, hyperglycemia, pancreatitis, and diabetic ketoacidosis. Zyprexa Risks The following are the risks and side effects associated with Zyprexa therapy. This list is not exhaustive. From the FDA web site, Zyprexa's risks include: A life-threatening nervous system ... [More >>]
December 9th, 2005. An editorial appearing Thursday December 9, 2005 in The New England Journal of Medicine called into question the information provided by Merck for a key study about cardiovascular events caused by the arthritis drug Vioxx. The study called into question was published in November of 2000 for the VIGOR ... [More >>]
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