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Keeping an Eye on Lupron News

Posted on December 04, 2010
Lupron As Hormone TherapyAbbott Labs is the marker of Lupron, more commonly referred to as leuprolide. Lupron is supposed to help both men and women's sexual health, ailing in the treatment of prostate cancer for men and helping to combat endometriosis in women...

Drug Induced Liver Injuries from Anti-microbial Medications

Posted on December 03, 2010
This month there will be a report released in Hepatology journal that suggest that anti-microbial medications are a common cause of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) leading to acute liver failure or ALF. Acute liver failure is the appearance of severe complications rapidly after the first signs of liver disease (such as jaundice), and indicates that the liver has sustained severe damage (loss of function of 80-90% of liver cells)...

12/1/10 Darvocet Legal: FDA Drug Safety Podcast for Healthcare Professionals: FDA recommends against the continued use of propoxyphen

Posted on December 02, 2010
Good stuff in this transcript from the FDA's podcast:Welcome, my name is Mary Kremzner, a pharmacist in the Division of Drug Information. On November 19, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration issued a Drug Safety Communication recommending against continued prescribing and use of the pain reliever propoxyphene because new data show that the drug can cause serious toxicity to the heart, even when used at therapeutic doses...

Align Technologies and Invisalign get FDA Warning Letter

Posted on December 02, 2010
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Maryland County Bans Caffine-Alcohol Drinks

Posted on December 01, 2010
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeHoward County is banning the sale of alcoholic beverages that contain caffeine, effective at the close of business on Wednesday, Dec. 1, County Executive Kenneth Ulman and Health Officer Peter Beilenson announced Tuesday...

November 29, 2010 Darvocet Legal News (Georgia/Florida)

Posted on November 29, 2010
Here is background and historical information from the FDA about Darvocet and Darvon: Following receipt of a Citizen Petition requesting the withdrawal of propoxyphene-containing products from the United States market, FDA convened an Advisory Committee meeting on January 30, 2009...

Another Tylenol Recall

Posted on November 29, 2010
J and J has recalled 9.3 million bottles of Tylenol cold treatments because they don?t disclose the medicine?s alcohol content on the front label.The recall affects three types of Tylenol Multi-Symptom liquid cold medicine sold in the U.S. by the McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit, J&J spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs said today in a telephone interview...

Advanced Bionics Announces Voluntary Recall of the HiRes 90K

Posted on November 27, 2010
From the FDA: Advanced Bionics (AB), a global leader in developing advanced cochlear implant systems, announced today that it has notified the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that it will voluntarily recall its HiRes 90K cochlear implant device and is retrieving all unimplanted devices in distribution...

Friday Tech: Apps to be Thankful for in 2010

Posted on November 26, 2010
Image by jetalone via FlickrSince opening my own law offices a couple of years ago, the great equalizer has been technology. Each year my list of Resolutions is loaded with tech-centric proposed changes. In 2010, I've converted to an iPad for hearings, and now have an Android phone to replace the iPhone...

Bayer Settles Multivitamin Prostate Cancer Claim Litigation

Posted on November 24, 2010
Bayer has agreed to a $3.3 million settlement with 3 states "over the company's unsupported claim that One A Day Men's Health Formula multivitamins reduce the risk of prostate cancer," according to the Oregon Department of Justice, which filed a complaint along with the attorney generals of California and Illinois...

November 20, 2010: Darvon/Darvocet Recall Information and History

Posted on November 20, 2010
Image by amayzun via FlickrThe news is out, but what do people know about how the recall came to be?The consumer interest group Public Citizen filed a federal lawsuit last year against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claiming that the agency violated the law by failing to act on a petition filed in 2006, which urged the removal of Darvocet, Darvon and generic propoxyphene drugs from the market because they have been associated with over 2,000 accidental deaths, are physically addictive and are no more effective than other safer painkillers...

November Avandia News

Posted on November 20, 2010
Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, and Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member, released a committee report based on a two year inquiry of the diabetes drug Avandia. The senators also asked the Food and Drug Administration to describe what steps the agency has taken to protect patients in an ongoing Avandia clinical trial, and why the study is allowed to continue, given that the FDA itself estimated that the drug caused approximately 83,000 excess heart attacks between 1999 and 2007...

November 20, 2010: Darvocet Recall News

Posted on November 20, 2010
Image via WikipediaSome background after this week's recall: The first propoxyphene products were approved based on safety only under the1938 Food Drug & Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), and they were Darvon (propoxyphene HCl 32 mg and65 mg) and a Darvon-Compound (aspirin, caffeine combination) that was later withdrawn...

FDA: Watch our for the Fake Viagra

Posted on November 20, 2010
Image via Wikipedia (This is the real stuff, not the copycat stuff the FDA's warning you about this weekThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration says Vigor-25, a product marketed as a natural dietary supplement to enhance male sexual performance, should not be purchased or used because it contains sildenafil, the active ingredient in the prescription drug Viagra...

Darvon and Darvocet/Propoxyphene News November 19, 2010

Posted on November 19, 2010
The FDA has asked that propoxyphene, (brand names Darvon and Darvocet, Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals) be removed from the US market. The decision will also affect generic manufacturers and the makers of propoxyphene-containing products.The FDA has told medical professionals to stop prescribing propoxyphene...

Reusable Shopping Bags and Possible Lead Contamination?

Posted on November 19, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The recent report by a newspaper in Tampa, Fl. has caused retailers and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate the lead levels of reusable shopping bags.Tests showed some Publix reusable bags had lead levels that exceed federal limits for paint and exceeded rules coming soon for children's toys...

France: Diabetes drug linked to 500 deaths?

Posted on November 17, 2010
The now-banned diabetes and weight loss drug Mediator may have been linked to the deaths of about 500 people in the 33 years it was on the market. France's health products safety agency has advised those who used the drug from 2006 to 2009 to see their doctor to check for possible heart valve problems...

Iqbal/Twombly Applies to All Civil Cases in Federal Court, Including State Law Claims Removed to Federal Court

Posted on November 17, 2010
Image via WikipediaSo says the TN USDCT, in an opinion released last week. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14595711359472781380&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr SALLIE MANESS, Plaintiff,v.BOSTON SCIENTIFIC, et al...

So long to caffeinated alcoholic beverages? FDA will ban them, one senator says

Posted on November 16, 2010
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeFrom the LA Times:Caffeinated alcoholic drinks that have been making college kids sick on campuses in several states may not be around much longer -- if news report of their proposed demise are correct.Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N...

New Federal Rules Information, Rule 26

Posted on November 16, 2010
Image via WikipediaOn December 1, 2010, regardless of the filing date, all cases in Federal Court are subject to a revision of the Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as it relates to expert witness reports. No longer will Rule 26 require full discovery of draft expert reports and broad disclosure of any communications between an expert and his attorney client...

MMSEA Reporting Deadline for Liability Settlements Extended

Posted on November 15, 2010
Image via Wikipedia On November 9th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") posted an alert (the "Alert") on its website extending, once again, the trigger and reporting dates for most liability settlements. The Alert also extends the dollar thresholds for reporting by one year...

Congressional Panel wants FDA to Answer Questions about

Posted on November 15, 2010
Image via WikipediaOn November8, 2010 The Committee on Oversuight and Government Reform sent to the FDA a letter that possibly suggests that business as usual may change. From the letter written by Edolphus Towns:The safety of children's over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical products is ofparamount importance to the American people...

November Fosamax Lawsuit News: Raising Questions for Doctors, and Juries

Posted on November 12, 2010
In a civil case now pending New York, a woman is suing Merck, the maker of Fosamax. She claims that that Fosamax had caused such debilitating jawbone deterioration that the Plaintiff has now required five major operations, including a lengthy surgery to replace her broken jaw with bone from her left arm...

November 2010 Georgia Reglan News

Posted on November 08, 2010
The U.S. Solicitor General has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal by pharmaceutical companies in a generic Reglan lawsuit, in a case known as the Mensing decison.The manufacturers of the generic Reglan, metoclopramide, are seeking a reversal of an appellate court decision that holds them liable for failing to warn patients about the risk of tardive dyskinesia, a rare movement disorder linked to the drug...

FDA issues warnings to marketers of unapproved ?chelation? products

Posted on November 04, 2010
The FDA has warned eight companies that their over-the-counter (OTC) chelation products are unapproved drugs and devices and that it is a violation of federal law to make unproven claims about these products. There are no FDA-approved OTC chelation products...

FDA Receives Complaints Associated With the Use of Brazilian Blowout

Posted on November 04, 2010
Image via WikipediaTheFDA has recently received a number of inquiries from consumers and salon professionals concerning the safety of ?Brazilian Blowout? and similar ?professional use only? hair care products. The following information is intended to answer questions people may have on this subject...

Chelation Products Warning Letter from FDA to Dr. Rhonda Henry

Posted on November 04, 2010
From the FDA site, a follow up to my prior post. http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm229243.htmOctober 12, 2010Dr. Rhonda Henry247 La Costa Ave.Dayton, NV 89403Dear Dr. Rhonda Henry: This is to advise you that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed your website at the internet address www...

Purple Glove Syndrome

Posted on November 03, 2010
An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration will consider whether IV phenytoin, marketed as Dilantin, should be relabled or even suspended because of the threat of Purple Glove Syndrome.PGS is a rare condition first noted in the 1980s, when patients who received IV Dilantin were developing painful, swollen hands that turned a deep shade of violet...

FDA tests confirm Listeria at Texas food plant

Posted on November 03, 2010
Image via WikipediaTests conducted by the FDA have found Listeria monocytogenes bacteria at a San Antonio Texas Fresh Cut Produce food processing plant after state health officials linked four deaths to contaminated celery from the facility.A recall was issued on October 20, 2010 citing packages of chopped celery from the facility that had been sold to hospitals, restaurants and schools since January...

A Disgraceful/Dangerous Stat: FDA fails to inspect 2,390 Foreign Drug Factories

Posted on November 02, 2010
Image via WikipediaThe General Accountability Office has just released a report that the FDA miserably failed to follow through on suggestion to inspect manufacturing facilities outside the USA. The folks at the GAO writes that there is an ?urgent need? to better protect public health...

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