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Drug Errors Occur At All Points In Medication Process
Implementation Of Monitoring Programs Can Reduce And Prevent Mistakes In June 2006 the medical journal Quality & Safety in Healthcare published an article, "Computer based medication error reporting: insights and implications", that demonstrated drug…
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Association of Sudden Vision Loss / NAION With Erectile Dysfunction (ED) Drugs
A "Dear Doctor" Letter Was Sent In June 2006, But Only In Canada As reported previously, the erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs Cialis (tadalafil), Levitra (vardenafil hydrochloride), and Viagra (sildenafil citrate) have been associated with…
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Sanofi-Aventis Sending “Dear Doctor” Letter About Ketek Label Changes
Bolded Warning, But Not "Black Box", For Liver Problems And Reports Of Deaths In late June 2006 Sanofi-Aventis SA announced that it had added a new bolded warning about the risks of liver failure…
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Did Merck Design Its Studies To Avoid Exposing The Risks Of Vioxx?
March 2005 Vioxx Article Says "Yes", Meaning That Only Merck Could Make An "Informed Decision" About The Risks For Heart Attacks And Strokes Hats off to "Insider" over at the PharmaGossip blog for resurrecting…
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First California Vioxx Trial Started On June 21: Grossberg v. Merck
Trial Consists Of Only Single Case, Not The Four-Case Group Judge Chaney Had Scheduled A June 21, 2006 article in the San Jose Mercury News reported that the first Vioxx trial in California started…
