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FDA Alert on Liberation Therapy For CCSVI Experimental procedure referred to as “liberation therapy” or “liberation procedure” used in the treatment of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) is on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert list. Health care professionals and patients are being warned about injuries and deaths linked to the use of the [...]
Zoloft Update: Research reported in the online edition the journal Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology (4/27/12) questions the effectiveness and safety of well known antidepressant medications. The study states that the benefits of these drugs are overshadowed by the potential risks they pose. In short, the study concludes that antidepressants such as Zoloft, do more harm than good. Zoloft: Approved [...]
Canada Adds Bladder Cancer Warning to Actos Label Canada Health warns public of bladder cancer risks and heart failure when using the diabetic drug Actos. In June of 2011 both France and Germany issued a recall on Takeda Pharmaceutical’s Actos. At that time Canada opted to wait and do a safety review on the diabetes drug. [...]
Celexa Dosage Changes FDA announces that Celexa, a widely used antidepressant, should not be used in doses larger than 40 mg per day. Exceeding the recommended dosage could lead to fatal changes in the electrical activity in the heart. Side effects of Celexa may be more severe in patients that have low levels of [...]
Revised Drug Labels for Yaz and Yasmin The FDA recently issued a Drug Safety Communication informing the public it has completed a review study of the risk of blood clots in women taking birth control containing dropsirenone. Drospirenone is a synthetic form of the female hormone progesterone, and is also called progestin. The study concludes [...]
Pradaxa (Dabigatran) What Is Pradaxa? Pradaxa is a medicine to keep your blood from coagulating (clotting) in order to prevent dangerous blood clots. Pradaxa also increases the chances of bleeding to occur, even from minor injury. Avoid activities that may increase your risk of bleeding or injury while taking Pradaxa. Pradaxa Side Effects Pradaxa users [...]
PRADAXA One month after 50 cases of fatal bleeding incidents were reported, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it will conduct a complete safety review of the drug, Pradaxa (dabigatran). Pradaxa is an oral direct thrombin inhibitor that is used to prevent stroke in patients suffering from non valvular atrial fibrillation. The FDA’s [...]
Pregnancy Induced Hypertension Risk Increased By Antidepressant Use, Paxil Has Highest Risk Many women suffer from depression while pregnant. The depression can become severe enough that prescription antidepressants are prescribed. Pregnancy induced hypertension (high blood pressure) risk is increased by the use of antidepressants reports The New York Times. The British Journal for Clinical [...]
The National Journal (2/28, Fox, Subscription Publication) reports the FDA will meet March 22-23 to “solicit feedback on whether making some medicines more easily available will get more people to use them.” “A new paradigm” to make prescriptions easier to fill. “Under this paradigm, the agency would approve certain drugs that would otherwise require a prescription [...]
The Wall Street Journal (2/23, B4, Dooren, Subscription Publication) reports that yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that “22 Chinese companies supplied contaminated raw materials that were used in the making of the blood thinner heparin.” ”The contamination was linked to 80 deaths”, with many more being sickened by allergic reactions that happened after taking the [...]
