FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Paxil CEO Testifies in First Paxil Birth Defect Case

  Jeremy Thurman | October 16, 2009 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Another tragic story about a company that is more concerned about profits than the safety of its customers: Officials of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the U.K.'s largest drugmaker, said in 2001 that a...

• Wall Street Journal - Bush Rule Changes Could Block Product-Safety Suits

  Jeremy Thurman | October 15, 2008 12:27 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I don’t get it, why do so called conservatives dislike consumer protections so much? This isn’t conservatism, it’s a neocon movement of big business and big pharmaceuticals to...

• Spiriva Linked to Increased Heart Attacks and Strokes

  Jeremy Thurman | September 24, 2008 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Last week, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found a 34% increased risk of dying from a heart attack or irregular heartbeat in COPD patients using ipratropium, which is in the same...

• Preemption - Drug Companies Believe We Need More Drugs

  Jeremy Thurman | August 21, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I just read an amicus briefed filed by the former and current editors of the New England Journal of Medicine in a case before our Supreme Court wherein Wyeth is seeking to have all pharmaceuticals...

• Digitek Tablets - Are You Suffering From Them?

  Jeremy Thurman | August 20, 2008 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  In April of this year the FDA issued a class I recall on all Digitek (digoxin) tablets, which regulators believed may contain twice the approved level of digoxin. Due to these double-strength pills,...

• Oklahoma Paxil Case

  Jeremy Thurman | June 04, 2008 5:55 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  News9.com is reporting that the first court case involving the controversial anti-depressant Paxil and birth defects has been filed in Oklahoma. The mother ofa Bartlesville toddler allegedly...

• JAMA Editorial Blows Whistle on Drug Companies Ghost Writers for Scientific Studies

  Jeremy Thurman | April 16, 2008 12:10 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I just ran across a Yahoo.com article describing a new editorial from JAMA which blows the whistle on drug companies using ghost writers for supposedly unbiased medical research. According to...

• More Deaths Related to Contaminated Baxter Heparin

  Jeremy Thurman | April 08, 2008 10:13 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  USA Today is tripling the death count associated with Baxter's Heparin supposedly contaminated in China. According to the report, sixty-two deaths now are associated with contaminated batches of the...

• A Lawyers Utopia - My Rant Against Tort Reform

  Jeremy Thurman | March 08, 2008 1:21 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I was discussing tort reform with a friend today and I heard my favorite term, Jackpot Justice. Of course I convinced my friend of the error of his ways and the utter fallacy of the tort reform movement. However, I got to thinking, what is Jackpot Justice. I better add a disclaimer, after reading this, this is truly a late night rant against the rhetoric of politicians.Now understand one...

• Avandia Receives Black Box Warning

  Jeremy Thurman | August 15, 2007 3:14 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  The diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos will be labeled with severe warnings about a risk of heart failure to some patients, health officials said Tuesday. The makers of the drugs, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., have agreed to add the "black-box" warnings, the Food and Drug Administration said. The warnings, the most severe that prescription drugs can bear, stress the...