Category: Side Effect: Eyes / Vision (blindness, retinal detachment, uveitis)
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Possible Avandia / Actos Drug-Related Eye Disease: Diabetic Macular Edema; Increased Risk For Type 2 Diabetes Patients
New Medical Journal Article Provides More Information About Emerging Drug Safety Issue Involving Avandia / Actos Side Effect Affecting Sight And Vision (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) According to a recent medical journal article,…
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Current Use Of Cipro And Levaquin Associated With Increased Risk Of Detached Retina Eye Injury
Neither Recent Nor Past Use Of These Antibiotics In Fluoroquinolones Class Was Related To Retinal Detachment (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) Patients taking oral antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones such as Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and…
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Actos And Avandia Use Associated With Diabetic Macular Edema, Which Can Lead To Blindness
New UK Study Found Three To Six Times Increased Risk Of Developing This Retinal Eye Disease Side Effect (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) ______________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE: Avandia, Actos May Raise Risk of Macular Edema…
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Current Use Of Some Popular SSRI Antidepressants May Increase The Risk Of Developing Cataracts
Luvox, Effexor, And Paxil Seem To Have Highest Increased Cataract Risks, But Study Does Not Prove That Any Of These Drugs Cause Cataracts (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) An article which appeared in the…
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Cialis Or Viagra Use After Heart Attack May Increase Blindness Risk
Study To Be Published In February Edition of British Journal of Ophthalmology In mid-January 2006 the British Journal of Ophthalmology issued a statement previewing an American study that suggests there is a link between…
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Do Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Cause Blindness, Or Not, That Is The Issue
Public Citizen Compares Viagra And Cialis Against Lipitor To Find Out The Answer Sidney M. Wolfe, MD, Director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, recently alleged that there have been inadequate warnings that erectile…
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Public Citizen Petitions FDA To Add Black-Box Warning On Impotence Drugs
Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra Linked to NAION Vision Loss In mid-October 2005 the consumer-advocacy group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to add a "black-box" warning to the labels of Pfizer Inc.’s…
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Health Canada Issues Warning About Vision Loss Related to Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra
Two Case Reports of NAION in Canada Prompt Drug-safety Alert on ED Drugs On July 26, 2005 Health Canada advised users of the erectile dysfunction drugs Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra to seek "immediate medical…
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FDA Mandates NAION Warning on Several Impotence and ED Drugs
Labels on Viagra, Cialis and Levitra are Changed to Address Blindness Issue On July 8, 2005 the FDA ordered warnings be put on the package insert labels of Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra to the…