Staten Island Plavix Lawsuit
Plavix Can Cause Heart Attacks And Strokes. Are you a resident of Staten Island, New York who has been injured by Plavix? Plavix, a popular blood thinner used to prevent heart attacks and strokes, has been associated with a number of serious side effects including heart attacks and strokes; serious bleeding, such as gastrointestinal … [Read more...]
Chantix Side Effects Linked to Strokes, Heart Attacks, Cardiovascular & Heart Disease Risk, Lawsuits being Evaluated
New Chantix Side Effects Increased Cardiovascular. A published report states that users of the smoking cessation drug Varenicline, brand name Chantix, has been linked to a small but statistically significant increased risk of cardiovascular events. The study was conducted by CMAJ suggests that 1 in every 28 patients receiving Chantix … [Read more...]
Meridia Panel Split on Ban
Meridia Panel Split. Eight members of a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee have called for Meridia to be pulled from US market. Six others on the 16-member panel favored restrictions on prescribing the weight loss drug, while the remaining two members voted to add a new black box warning to the Meridia label … [Read more...]
Avandia Heart Attack Risk
Avandia May Cause Heart Attacks And Stroke. An unpublished Avandia study has found that patients in the U .S. Medicare system who took the drug may have suffered as many as 48,000 heart attacks, strokes and other problems between 1999 and 2009. According to the study’s author, Dr. David Graham, a safety official with the U.S. Food … [Read more...]
Meridia Ban
Meridia May Cause Heart Attacks And Strokes. Public Citizen Ban Meridia, a weight loss drug marketed by Abbot Laboratories, should be banned by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) immediately, according to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. In a press release announcing that it has filed its second petition with … [Read more...]
COX-2 Inhibitors Raise Heart Risks
COX-2 Inhibitors More Likely to Raise Heart Risks. A new study that confirms the heart risks associated with a class of drugs called NSAIDs has found that the increased risk correlates to the specific pain-causing molecule they act against. According to the study, NSAIDS that are cox-2 inhibitors are more likely to increase the risks … [Read more...]
Vioxx Risk May Have Begun in 4 Months
Vioxx Risk Of Heart Attacks And Strokes. Unpublished data from the Merck & Co. study that led the drugmaker to halt sales of Vioxx appear to show that the painkiller raised the risk of heart attack and stroke within just a few months not after at least 18 months’ use, as Merck has argued. The company disputed that yesterday, … [Read more...]
PATCH MAKER PAYOUT
Blood Clots And Strokes Are The Risks Of Birth Control Patch Maker. Women who suffered life-threatening blood clots and strokes on the Ortho-Evra birth-control patch are receiving cash settlements from the manufacturer, which allegedly failed to warn customers about the known risks, The Post has learned. Ortho-McNeil … [Read more...]
Muraglitazar Potential Blockbuster Diabetes Drug
Muraglitazar Potentially Deadly Results. Noted experts fear Vioxx-like scenario is about to be repeated with potentially deadly results for those who would take the drug that is about to be approved for sale. An eagerly awaited diabetes drug, which is nearing final approval by the FDA, significantly increases the risk of heart … [Read more...]
FDA Pulls Painkiller and Orders New Warnings On Others
Painkiller Risks Of Heart Attacks And Strokes. In a sweeping move to address one of its worst drug safety debacles, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that dozens of widely used prescription painkillers must now carry the government’s strongest warning that they pose risks of heart attacks and strokes. And one … [Read more...]
How Merck Stacked the Vioxx Deck
The same week that drug manufacturer Merck pulled its highly profitable painkiller, Vioxx, from the market last September, acknowledging that it was linked to heart attacks and strokes, a Las Vegas legend dropped into our local poker game. Ray is one of poker's few long-term success stories. A math wiz, highly praised author of … [Read more...]
Panel Found Vioxx Risks After 4 Months
Panel Found Vioxx Risks. Newly disclosed documents indicate a committee overseeing a key Vioxx study found increased risks of various heart problems in patients after just four months, according to a published report. At the time Merck yanked Vioxx last September, the Whitehouse Station-based drug maker said a fresh review of the … [Read more...]
Studies Expand Warnings on Painkillers
Painkillers Risk Of Heart Attacks And Strokes. Two studies released today have turned up new evidence that all of the popular arthritis painkillers known as COX-2 inhibitors may put users at greater risk of heart attacks and strokes. The first of the two papers published online by the journal Circulation found that patients who … [Read more...]
Maker of Vioxx Is Target of Suit
Maker of Vioxx Merck Is Being Sued. Click here for Free Vioxx Lawsuit Case Evaluation A Lexington, Mo., woman on Friday sued Vioxx manufacturer Merck & Co. over the 2002 death of her daughter. The lawsuit was filed a day after the drugmaker pulled the arthritis medication off the market because it might increase the risk of … [Read more...]
Merck’s Legal Nightmare
Merck Vioxx Risk Of Heart Attacks And Strokes. Merck's recall of its popular painkiller Vioxx after a big study found it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes could set off the next big class-action feeding frenzy. Virtually every time a drug has been recalled because of side-effect problems in recent years, the … [Read more...]
OTC-Drug Ingredient Lawsuit
OTC-Drug Was Linked To Strokes. Five years ago, Rosemary Krenfeld took a popular nasal decongestant called Tavist-D, which was regularly sold without a prescription. She later suffered a stroke and, since then, the 48-year-old mother of three has been confined to a wheelchair. Tomorrow, her lawyers will argue in Superior Court in … [Read more...]
Lawsuit Claims Inmate’s Death Linked To Decongestant
Decongestant May Cause Strokes. A family suing over the death of a prison inmate altered their lawsuit Wednesday to include a theory that her brain hemorrhage was caused by a decongestant pulled from shelves because of fears it caused strokes. Virginia Brejcak, 42, suffered a seizure in her cell on Christmas Day in 2001 and died … [Read more...]
Metabolife 92 Serious Complaints
Metabolife Serious Health Complaints. Metabolife International's controversial herbal diet pill has been linked to 92 serious health complaints, including deaths, heart attacks and strokes, according to a General Accounting Office report released yesterday. But congressional investigators stressed that the existence of thousands … [Read more...]
Trim Spa For Weight Loss
Trim Spa Contain Ephedra. PRODUCT AND WHO MARKETED FOR: Anyone who listens to local radio particularly shock-jock Howard Stern knows about Trim Spa, because Stern is one of the product's biggest supporters. Stern says he doesn't use the stuff, but a colleague on the program, "Cabbie," credits it for his dramatic weight loss. Trim … [Read more...]
Some Medicines Linked To Strokes
Some Medicines Can Cause Strokes. A stimulant once doled out by the billions in weight-loss and cold medications, then later linked to deaths, is the subject of a slew of federal lawsuits across the country, the first of which will be tried here April 4. Loretta Rorie, a Will County, Ill., woman whose lawsuit will go to trial in … [Read more...]
YOU AND ARTHRITIS DRUGS
Arthritis Drugs Risk Of Cardiovascular Events. Click here for Free Vioxx Lawsuit Case Evaluation An article in the Aug. 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggested that popular arthritis drugs Vioxx and Celebrex may increase the risk of cardiovascular events -- including heart attacks, strokes … [Read more...]
