Posts tagged Drug Products

• FDA Cites Cold Medicine Dangers for Children

  Joe Saunders | September 29, 2007 9:26 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  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 Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  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...

• ReNu Abogado

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  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...

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

  Joe Saunders | December 13, 2007 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  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...

• FDA Panel to Review Safety of Children's Cold Medicines

  Joe Saunders | August 16, 2007 6:46 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA will convene a panel to review the safety and efficacy of over the counter children's cold medicines. A group of doctors are pushing the FDA to put a warning on these over the counter products that they have not been proven safe and effective for children under six years of age. The petition was filed with the FDA earlier this year after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

• FDA Warns Sleep Aid Manufacturers

  Joe Saunders | March 15, 2007 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has told manufacturers of certain sleep aids that they must put stronger warnings on their labels in order to advise consumers of the possible side effects. The products include the popular Lunesta and Ambien.

• Congress Starts Asking Questions About Dr. Jarvik

  Joe Saunders | January 08, 2008 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  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...

• Dietary Supplement Recall

  Joe Saunders | November 27, 2007 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bodee LLC has issued a voluntary recall of all its Encore dietary supplements after the FDA determined that a chemical analyis of the supplement contained harmful, undeclared ingredients. The FDA analysis showed that Encore Tabs contained aminotadalafil, an analog of tadalafil, the active ingredient of a FDA-approved drug used for Erectile Dysfunction (ED). FDA maintains Aminotadalafil is close...

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

  Joe Saunders | November 13, 2007 8:18 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  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...

• FDA Warning Issued for Pain Drug Fentora

  Joe Saunders | September 27, 2007 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Fentora, used to treat pain in cancer patients, has drawn an FDA warning as a result of deaths in patients who were given the improper dosage or Fentora was incorrectly substituted as a pain management pharmaceutical. The FDA warning stated that Fentora should not be used in cancer patients who are unable to tolerate other opioiddrugs. Fentora was approved by the FDA last year for cancer...