Archive for the Defective Drugs Category

Dangerous Side Effects from Fosamax Medication

Edit | Date Posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16 | Comments

Imagine going for a stroll or walking out to get the mail and suddenly one or both of your femur (thigh) bones just snap in half. An ABC News report shows some of the excruciatingly painful breaks that can occur from side effects from fosamax medication. These side effects show that even with the testing [...]

Yasmin Side Effects Lawsuit

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Millions of women throughout the country have taken the drug Yasmin (also called Yaz and Ocella). Life-threatening Yasmin side effects have resulted from this drug for many of them and if you have been injured while using this birth control pill you may be eligible to file a Yaz lawsuit. Currently no Yasmin class action [...]

False Advertising Creates Product Liability Issues

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Every company that makes a product wants to market it in the best possible light. However, too many companies cross the line in an effort to capture a wider market of sales for their product.
Case-in-point: Nestle, the world’s largest food company, has been hit by the FDA with falsely promoting their “BOOST Kid Essentials [...]

Panel Recommends Warning for MRI Drug Agent Gadolinium

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Today, a panel of advisers to the FDA made recommendations to the agency to put new warnings on MRI agents containing the drug Gadolinium, specifically for patients with kidney disease (Reuters link). The problem stems from the body trying to process the Gadolinium and remove it from the system. With kidneys that aren’t functioning optimally, [...]

Pfizer pleads guilty to felony, pays billions in fines, for fraudulent marketing of Bextra

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From Natural News:
“(NaturalNews) For the last several years, I’ve referred to drug companies as “criminal” operations. They have engaged in price fixing, marketing fraud, science fraud and many other criminal activities that we’ve written about here on NaturalNews. And yet, until today, they always managed to avoid the criminal charges by settling with the government [...]