Posts tagged Defective Products

• High Rate of Heart Device Recalls

  Staff Writer | May 22, 2006 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A study based on FDA records for the last 10 years found that 164,000 external defibrillators (one out of every five) were subject to recall or agency alert. The data included 370 reports of deaths in which the defibrillator malfunctioned. Actually, the number was much higher, 801 adverse-event reports associated with death, but the study only counted the cases in which an emergency worker...

• Bausch & Lomb Disclosure Delays

  Staff Writer | May 19, 2006 12:07 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Hey Bausch & Lomb, "what took you so long"? The first reports of the Fusarium fungus concerning ReNu with MoistureLoc arose from Hong Kong last November, but in its filing with the FDA on December 15, the company denied any problems with the product. Later, in February, Singapore reported a cluster of cases from the month before. Still later, on March 3rd, a New Jersey opthamologist complained...

• Heart Device Makers Feeling Heat

  Staff Writer | May 18, 2006 3:10 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Several Medical Safety Groups have criticized the makers of heart devices, like defibrillators and pacemakers, for failing to alert doctors to life-threatening flaws in their products. The physicians believe the these companies don't fully assess the patient consequences because engineers, rather than doctors, made the decisions. Finally, two of the companies have agreed to broaden their...

• Bausch & Lomb Recalls ReNu with MoistureLoc

  Staff Writer | May 16, 2006 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Citing safety concerns, Bausch & Lomb has permanenetly recalled its soft contact lens solution Renu with MoistureLoc. Scientists suspect the disinfectant, Alexidine, in combination with novel moisturizing agents, could have been absorbed into the lens and contributed to an outbreak of rare fungal infections which can scar the cornea and blind its victims. The company is NOT recalling its other...

• New FDA Warning About Paxil

  Staff Writer | May 15, 2006 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  After analyzing the data collected from about 15,000 patients, the FDA has written a letter to doctors and patients of newly discovered links between antidepressant PAXIL and an increased risk of suicides. The latest data revealed that 11 young patients (late teens to thirties) had attempted suicide after taking the drug. Paxilis one of the Serontin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs, like Prozac...

• Beware of Off Label Prescriptions

  Staff Writer | May 11, 2006 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Just because the FDA approves a drug for a specific purpose, that does NOT mean that the drug is safe or effective for other off-label uses. A recent study by the Stanford Prevention Research Center revealed that 15% of prescriptions were for off-label uses lacking scientific support, most commonly among heart drugs (excluding those for cholesterol and high blood pressure) and...

• Vaccine Makers Wrote Frist's Shield Law

  Staff Writer | May 09, 2006 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Here they go again. We all know that the oil industry wrote Cheney's energy policy, so it should come as no surprise to learn that the Vaccine manufacturers wrote their Shield Law which Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist secretly amended into a defense bill. His good buddy, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, was his co-conspirator who ordered the exact lanuage to be inserted without debate. ...

• RENU with MOISTURE LOC Suits Filed

  Staff Writer | May 03, 2006 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Attorney Chris Searcy has filed suit against Bausch and Lomb on behalf of two clients who were permanently injured by using its Renu with Moisture LOC solution. Fellow InjuryBoard Attorney Joe Saunders in Florida has also filed suit on behalf of users of Bausch & Lomb's MoistureLoc Renu solution who have suffered eyesight loss or injury. One 69 year old woman lost her eye and the other gentleman...

• Does PREMPO Cause Breast Cancer?

  Staff Writer | May 01, 2006 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This July, the first trial is scheduled to commence against Wyeth on the question of whether its menopause drug PREMPO causes breast cancer. Thousands of women who took the drug to combat night sweats and hot flashes, now claim that Wyeth failed to disclose its carcinogenic health risks. The FDA approved PREMPO in 1995. Women who have used the drug for long periods of time should consult...

• Another Merck Muck - Fosamax Drug Danger(2)

  Staff Writer | April 18, 2006 11:03 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As if Vioxx wasn't problematic enough for drug manufacturer Merck, now another health risk has surfaced, directly linked to its Fosamax drug. As the LA Times has reported, since 2001, more than 2,400 patients taking Fosamax and other bone-building medications have reported bone death in their jaws. Yet, 90% of the drug side effects aren't reported to the FDA. Biophosphonate drugs have been...