News & Commentary on Prescription Drug & Medical Device Lawsuits
As lawsuits concerning the testosterone therapy drug AndroGel have recently been filed, a great deal of information has come to light concerning the marketing of that product.
Here is an excerpt from one of the current AndroGel lawsuits:
“In 2000, when the FDA approved AndroGel, the company announced that the market was ‘four to five…
WARNING: Research shows AndroGel (AbbVie, Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Inc.) is overprescribed and can lead to “serious medical problems, including life threatening cardiac events, strokes, and thrombolytic events.”
AndroGel is a topically-applied gel containing testosterone at concentrations of either 1% or 1.62% used by patients suffering from hypogonadism, or “low-testosterone”. While this…
In the wake of the recent fungal meningitis outbreak that left 64 dead and infected some 751 Americans, traced back contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center (Framingham, MA), the United States Food and Drug Administration has sought greater oversight over the pharmacy compounding industry.
To that end, Congress passed the Drug…
Yesterday (1/16/2014) Reuters reported that an FDA advisory panel rejected a call by Johnson and Johnson to approve their anticoagulant Xarelto (rivaroxaban) for acute coronary syndrome by a vote of 10-0 with one abstention.
While Xarelto “is already used to treat and prevent deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms and to reduce the…
A recent article by Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson (published in Reuters) reports on restrictions being lifted from the use of the drug Avandia. Avandia is a diabetes drug made by the company GlaxoSmithKline that was thought to increase the risk for heart attacks for people using the drug. The U.S. Food and…
Salmonella is a food-borne bacteria, typically present in meat and poultry products. An estimated 1.3 million illnesses can be attributed to Salmonella every year. To address outbreaks of salmonella, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has released its Salmonella Action Plan that outlines the steps it will take to…
On October 26th, a federal court in California allowed a lawsuit against Google Inc. to proceed in which it is alleged that Google has violated privacy laws by scanning the emails of persons who do not use Google’s email service, Gmail, for the purpose of advertisement optimization.
While it is currently legal for Google and…
Ellen Beck recently wrote an article for the “Smart Blog on Food and Beverage” website titled “FBI Makes Threats to U.S. Food Supply a Bigger Priority”, that discusses the food industry’s vulnerability to intentional food contamination. In light of all the terrorist attacks taking place throughout the world, the FBI is becoming increasingly…
A November 7th New York Times article by Sabrina Tavernise discusses the recent FDA ruling surrounding trans fats.
Nutrition is an ever-changing area of research. Many of the guides to healthy cooking and eating methods once thought ideal are now seen to be quite unhealthy and harmful to our health. During the 1950’s, 1960’s…
Julian Hattem of RegWatch, a blog curated by TheHill, reports in a piece that the US Food and Drug Administration is “not sold” on a recent pharmacy compounding bill.
The mixing and distributing of medications happens at various compound pharmacy clinics found all throughout the United States, and these compounding clinics have been the…