FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Tarceva Receives New Warnings from FDA

  Joe Saunders | May 11, 2009 1:08 PM | 1 CommentSarasota, FL

  Cancer drug Tarceva will have to add new warning labels because of serious side effects associated with the drug manufactured by Genentech and OSI Pharmaceutical, Inc. The side effects include skin...

• Alli and Xenical Receive FDA Review After Reports of Liver Injury

  Joe Saunders | August 25, 2009 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  The FDA is reviewing diet drugs Alli and Xenical after 32 adverse event reports associated the drugs with liver injury. Alli is manufactured and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and is available as an...

• Acetaminophen Safety and the FDA

  Joe Saunders | July 07, 2009 11:39 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Last week's FDA panel decision to ban painkillers Vicodin and Percocet as well as limit acetaminophen has a long and complicated backstory. The call for banning Vicodin and Percocet was in part a...

• ReNu Abogado

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Si ud. ha estado usando la solución ReNu para sus lentes de contacto y ha experimentado una herida de los ojos, posiblemente podría recibir compensación por su herida. Es muy importante que ud. consulte con un oftalmólogo inmediatamente. El doctor tiene que tomar una muestra de sus ojos para determinar si tiene el hongo fusarium keratitis. Favor de llamar a nuestra oficina para una...

• FDA Cites Cold Medicine Dangers for Children

  Joe Saunders | September 29, 2007 9:26 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Cold and cough medicines purchased over the counter for children under six years of age can cause serious side effects, including death, concluded an FDA analysis of the safety of children's cold and cough medicines. The FDA has had 54 reports of children's death as a result of using decongesants containing pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine and ephedrine. The FDA has told companies marketing...

• Congress Gives FDA More Power to Monitor Drug Safety

  Joe Saunders | September 21, 2007 8:18 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Congress has passed legislation giving the FDA new powers of oversight concerning the pharmaceutical industry including more authority to require changes to drug labels, demand additional safety studies and limit the distribution of medications when safety concerns arise. The new legislation includes an interesting twist in that it may limit protection of pharmaceutical companies for drugs that...

• Diabetes' Drugs Avandia and Actos

  Joe Saunders | June 24, 2008 5:45 PM | 1 CommentSarasota, FL

  A panel of outside FDA advisers will be asked what types of studies should be conducted in order to evaluate the safety of diabetes' drugs Avandia and Actos, both of which have been linked to...

• Older Patients Who Take Avandia Have Higher Risk of Heart Attacks

  Joe Saunders | December 13, 2007 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  According to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association older people who suffer from diabetes and take Avandia as part of their treatment regimen are 60% increased risk of heart failure, a 40% increased risk of heart attack, and a 30% increased risk of death. This is obviously not good news for Glaxo Smith Kline, the manufacturer of Avandia. Avandia is a...

• Congress Starts Asking Questions About Dr. Jarvik

  Joe Saunders | January 08, 2008 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Dr. Robert Jarvik became known as the maker of the world's first artificial heart in the 1980's. Most recently, his face and name are splashed in tv and print media ads pitching Pfizer's cholesterol drug Lipitor. The marketing campaign is so often used that Congress has started asking Pfizer questions about Dr. Jarvik's qualifications to pitch a cholesterol drug. The Wall St. Journal...

• Senate Bill Would Allow FDA Monitoring of Over the Counter Drug Ads

  Joe Saunders | November 13, 2007 8:18 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  A bill introduced by Senators Henry Waxman of California and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts would give the FDA regulatory authority concerning ads for over the counter drugs. The bill comes in the wake of an FDA advisory about banning cold medicines for children under the age of 6. The new bill would give the federal agency power to impose monetary fines on advertisers. Presently, over the...