Attention: Any woman currently using bill control pills, you may want to abstain from sex until you check out the packaging – unless of course you want to get pregnant. Qualitest Pharmaceuticals has issued a recall on six of its birth control products, including Cyclafem 7/7/7, Cyclafem 1/35, Emoquette, Gildess FE 1.5/30, Gildess FE 1/20, […]
Unsafe Drugs
Paxil Causes Birth Defects
A court in Pennsylvania has ordered Glaxo (GSK) to pay Michelle David $2.5 million for past and future medical expenses for her son who was born with severe birth defects that were caused by the anti-depressant Paxil that was prescribed for her during her pregnancy. The jury based its award on its finding that GSK, […]
Off-Label Drug End Run Causes Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Kudos to Evelyn Pringle of the Media Monitors Network for an excellent case study of how drug companies promote profits by paying for research supporting off-label uses for products that cause personal injuries and wrongful deaths – “Just What Kids Need – Sparlon – Another ADHD Drug” (March 2006). The report features DuBose Ravenel, MD, […]
Harvard Cover-up: Off-Label Drug Profiteering Ignores Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Drug company money influences and corrupts research. That is a given. What is less understood is why drug manufacturers spend billions for research on off-label uses for their products – uses that were never cleared with the FDA when the drug was submitted for approval as safe and not causing personal injuries and wrongful deaths. […]
FDA Thinks Your Body Belongs to Them: Inadequate Protection From Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Would you like to turn over control of your health and viability – possibly your very longevity – to an understaffed, underfunded government bureaucracy? Doesn’t appeal to you, does it? The FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration), which if you think about it for a little while, has extraordinary power over your personal well-being – […]
