FDA & Prescription Drugs | InjuryBoard Corpus Christi

The FDA warns consumers not to use Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises, Inc. because it contains potentially harmful ingredients that may cause diarrhea, vomiting and respiratory...

A man who claims he received 47 unneeded jolts from his implanted defibrillator is suing Medtronic Inc. over defective wires used in the defibrillator.According to the Kansas City Star News report, "Medtronic Inc., maker of pacemakers and other heart devices, has acknowledged that wires connecting its implantable defibrillators to patient hearts break more often than it expected." The suit...

U.S. Drug regulators issued a public health advisory about the potential risks of a pain drug made by Cephalon Inc.The drug, Fentora, has been aproved to treat cancer patients whose severe pain cannot be controlled from other pain killers such as morphine and other pain releiver drugs. Fentora is 80 times stronger than morphine and has been linked to some recent deaths after taking Fentora. ...

The U.S. Food and drug Administration (FDA) is aware of a potential safety issue related to Avandia (rosigliazone), a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes.Safety data from controlled clinical trials have demonstrated a potentially significant increase in the risk of heart attacks and heart-related deaths in patients taking Avandia. One study reported by The New York Times found that Avandia made...

The FDA created a reporting system for doctors and health professionals to use in 1998 in order to report adverse and fatal drug reactions. A list of the top harmful drugs has been published showing that painkillers cause the most injuries. Clozapine is in the top five and it is an antipsychotic drug. The system is called MedWatch. Five of the top six drugs causing deaths were...