The Consumer Justice Group’s dangerous prescription drug lawyers have won scores of cases for clients injured by FDA recalled drugs such as Vioxx and Meridia but also for dangerous drugs not recalled, such Avandia, the diabetes drug recently given a black box warning for significantly increasing the risk of heart failure. Learn more about recently recalled pharmaceutical drugs and how to protect yourself from the newest dangerous pharmaceutical risks by reading our newsletters in FDA Drug Recall News. For a lawyer winning dangerous drug cases in your area, contact the Consumer Justice Group. For information on FDA recalled drug medications, the process of drug recalls, and the dangers posed from big pharmaceuticals’ influence on FDA administrators, read our FDA Drug and Medication Recall Newsletters below.
Update:(10/11/07): If your child
has been injured or has died from a recalled over-the-counter
infant medication, contact us
to speak with one of our dangerous drug attorneys
If you would like more information about
today's voluntary OTC infant medication recall, visit
our sister site Lawyers
for Change
Update: Consumer Justice Group attorneys are
now actively reviewing injury cases for GlaxoSmithKline’s
(GSK) diabetes drugs Avandia
and Avandamet.
Contact us if taking either of these dangerous drug
medications now carrying a black box warning has led
to heart attack, heart failure, or
other heart-related injury.
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FDA Recalls Discussed on Video Blog
Consumer Justice Group communications director Thomas Farringer chats about his job and the ways that the FDA recalls or fails to recall drugs. The video blog explains how unsafe drugs get to market, how the pharmaceutical industry regulates itself, and what it means when a drug is recalled.
FDA Recalls: America’s (Legal) Drug Medication Problem
There has been a serious drug problem in the United States since the 1990s. Dangerous drug medications have been prescribed by doctors with their patients’ best interest at heart only to have these drugs injure or kill. FDA, the U.S. regulatory agency, has increasingly bent to pharmaceutical drug company pressure. During the average five years between FDA approval and FDA recall of dangerous drugs, pharmaceutical giants like Merck make record profits.
Read more about the drug medication approval processes and FDA recalls…
FDA Drug Recall Timeline
Review a comprehensive timeline of FDA Recalls beginning in 1980.
Ketek's Liver-Injuries and Deaths: FDA Warnings Come too Late for Dangerous Drug
Ketek, an antibiotic originally approved for treating a number of lung and sinus infections, has been the subject of major controversy and an ongoing Congressional investigation into FDA's fast track approval process. In February 2007, FDA added a black box warning (FDA's strongest safety warning before drug recall) after researchers had found that Ketek was 3.5-11 times more likely than other antibiotics to cause acute liver failure. Read more about the controversy behind Ketek's approval, why FDA may recall the drug Ketek, and how Consumer Justice Group lawyers can help recover the damages from liver injuries caused by Ketek…
Bayer Voluntarily Withdraws Baycol
FDA today announced that Bayer Pharmaceutical Division is voluntarily withdrawing Baycol (cerivastatin) from the U.S. market because of reports of sometimes fatal rhabdomyolysis, a severe muscle adverse reaction from this cholesterol-lowering (lipid-lowering) product. FDA agrees with and supports this decision.
FDA agrees with and supports this decision to recall the drug from market.
Vioxx Doubles Risk of Heart Attack
Data from a three-year study shows that use of Vioxx noticeably increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and serious blood clots. People who use Vioxx for more than 18 months have been shown to carry twice the risk of heart attack when compared to people who took a sugar pill. On September 30, Merck, the corporation that makes the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx, recalled their product. Vioxx has been taken by an estimated 84 million people since the drug was released in 1999.
Vioxx has been taken by an estimated 84 million people since the drug was released in 1999, and estimates vary how many have suffered injuries from this dangerous drug medication.
PPA (Phenylpropanolamine) Recall
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall on phenylpropanolamine (PPA) in products that are sold over the counter. In addition, the agency requested that all drug companies discontinue marketing products containing PPA. The agency went one step further and issued a public health advisory for phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride, the active ingredient in PPA. This chemical is found in many over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription cold and cough medications, nasal decongestants, and OTC appetite suppressant and weight loss products.
Click to continue reading about PPA drug recall.
Meridia Weight Loss is No Gain
Maybe you've seen the attractive, positive commercials urging you to buy Meridia and lose weight. Or maybe you have run into a pop-up ad on the web showing you how to buy Meridia online. Chances are you have heard of the Meridia diet pill, but are you aware of the
side effects of this FDA approved medication?
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