Defective Drugs Recall: Trasylol, Baycol, Prozac

Defective Drugs and Recalls including Trasylol, Tequin, ADHD Drugs, and Prozac

Defective Drugs News Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EDT

FDA Warns Asthma Drugs May be Defective  Two officials in the safety division of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded in their recent analysis, published on the FDA website Dec. 4, that people of all ages who have asthma should stop taking four very widely used asthma medications due to the drugs' pote... Glaxo Smith Cline Faces Paxil Lawsuit  A woman living in Canada filed a defective drug lawsuit against Glaxo Smith Kline, the distributor of Paxil, a drug prescribed to treat depression. According to the lawsuit, Shannon Cote, 29, was prescribed Paxil af... Fact Sheet Required in NuvaRing Suits  U.S. District Judge Rodney Sipple announced that he elected to use the defendants’ proposed Plaintiff’s Fact Sheet when filing NuvaRing MDL lawsuits. The fact sheet requires all plaintiffs involved in NuvaRing lawsuits... Paxil Found to Be Dangerous to Men's Fertility  A small clinical study reported recently in New Scientist magazine found that men who were taking an antidepressant such as Paxil showed significant increases in sperm damage — that... Lawsuit Filed Against Manufacturer of Diabetes Drug  A man from Virginia filed a personal injury lawsuit against Amylin Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer, and Eli Lilly and Co., the co-marketer of the diabetes drug Byetta (R). The lawsuit, filed in the San Diego Superior Court, alleges that the two defendant compan... FDA Orders Stronger Warnings for Arthritis Drugs  A group of four drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis will get stronger warnings regarding the risk of potentially fatal fungal infections, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday. The agency said the drugs, which include... Byetta Linked to Additional Deaths  The diabetes drug Byetta has been linked to the deaths of four more patients, according to a new report by the makers of the drug - Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. The Food and Drug Administration had linked the drug to two deaths in mid-August. Byetta was appro... Alcohol Dependence Drug Linked to Adverse Reactions  Nearly 200 reports of adverse events have been reported by patients following injections of Vivitrol, an alcohol dependence drug made by Alkermes Inc., the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday. Among the complications reported are pain, swelling, and bleeding... Manufacturers of Digitek Recall Generic Drugs  According to recent reports, Actavis Totowa, the makers of Digitek, have recalled all generic drugs manufactured at their New Jersey plant. The recall comes in the aftermath of an inspec... FDA Definitively Links Contaminated Heparin to Deaths  After months of investigation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has definitively tied three patient deaths to contaminated heparin. Heparin is a widely used blood thinning medi...