FDA & Prescription Drugs

• 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...

• Lupron Litigation

  Jacob Diesselhorst | March 22, 2007 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Five women who claim to have suffered harm from injections of Lupron for treatment of endometriosis are suing the drug's manufacturer, Tap Pharmaceuticals, in U.S. federal court. Samuel Bearman of Pensacola, Florida, one of two attorneys for the plaintiffs, told Redflagsdaily.com that the pre-trial discovery process is expected to begin shortly. The five women claim, for example, that Tap...

• GLAXO SMITH KLINE DATA LINKS PAXIL TO INCREASED RISK OF BIRTH DEFECTS

  Jeremy Thurman | May 03, 2007 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  On December 13, 2005, Glaxo Smith Kline released a follow up to a prior study comparing the effects of bupropion to other antidepressants. The preliminary study and it follow up are available on the GSK website [insert link to study]. Though not specifically powered to study the effects of Paxil (paroxetine), GSK concluded "In this study, the use of paroxetine in the first trimester of...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Doctor Says Drug Maker Tried to Quash His Criticism of Avandia

  Jeremy Thurman | June 04, 2007 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  The New York Times just had an article about the Drug Avandia. It states that a Congressional committee hearing next Wednesday will try to determine whether federal regulators paid sufficient attention to potential risks of the diabetes drug Avandia. One witness, scheduled to appear at the hearing, claims that Avandia's maker, GlaxoSmithKline, attempted to silence his criticism of the drug....

• Paxil Birth Defects

  Jeremy Thurman | March 22, 2007 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  In December, 2005 the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory regarding Paxil, which was based upon two separate studies done by U.S. and Swedish researchers. The FDA warned doctors and patients that exposure to Paxil during pregnancy posed a serious risk to the fetus and was linked to an increased risk of Congenital Heart Defects. If you or loved one have been...

• 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...