Category: Drug Recall Notices
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Recall Notice For Digitek Marketed Under Bertek Label Goes Back To March 2006
North Carolina Board Of Pharmacy Has Posted A Copy Of The Bertek Digitek Drug Recall Notice On Its Web Site (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) The home page of the North Carolina Board…
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Extent Of Digitek Recall Remains A Mystery Ten Days Later; Patients Are Left In The Dark
Heart Medication Sold By Mylan Was Made In Actavis Plant That Received FDA Letter About Manufacturing Problems Over A Year Ago (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) News about the April 2008 Digitek recall…
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FDA Says It Doesn’t Know How Long Defective Digitek / Digoxin Pills Were Sold
Actavis Says They Have Received 11 Complaints About Digitek Side Effects That Date Back To 2006 (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) The facts surrounding a late April 2008 recall of Digitek (digoxin) pills…
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Digitek Digoxin Recall: Tablets May Be Double The Normal Dose
So-called "Digitalis Toxicity" Is Possible, Especially In Patients With Renal Failure (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) In an April 28, 2008 MedWatch Safety Alert about Digitek (digoxin tablets), the FDA informed doctors and…
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Trasylol Sales In U.S. And Canada Suspended Temporarily By Bayer In Early November 2007
Market Withdrawal Or Recall Of Trasylol Seems Possible As Bayer Waits For Final Data From Halted BART Study (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) On November 5, 2007 the FDA announced and Health Canada…
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Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Wire Leads Fracturing In Defibrillators May Have Caused Five Deaths
Events Leading Up To October 2007 FDA Recall Include A Little Noticed March 2007 "Dear Doctor" Letter And July 2007 Medical Journal Article About Model 6949 (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) An October…
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Parkinson’s Disease Drug Permax Ordered Off The Market By Health Canada
Permax Was Voluntarily Withdrawn From the U.S. Market Earlier This Year At The Insistence of FDA (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) As you may recall, the Parkinson disease drug Permax was voluntarily withdrawn…
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Australian Regulators Request That Novartis Withdraw Their Painkiller Drug Prexige
Prexige Associated With Reports Of Liver Damage, Liver Transplants, And Death (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) An August 11, 2007 Bloomberg article, "Novartis’ Prexige Painkiller Drug Pulled by Australia", let us know about…
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Novartis Ordered To Recall Zelnorm From Market In Switzerland
Swiss Pharmaceutical Regulator States That Side Effect Risks Outweigh Benefits (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) In a brief June 1, 2007 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article it was reported that Switzerland’s pharmaceuticals regulator…
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FDA Orchestrates Voluntary Recall of Parkinson’s Disease Drug Permax
Action Follows News Of Studies Which Revealed Link To Serious Heart Valve Damage (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) On March 29, 2007 the FDA announced that Permax as well as two generic pergolide…