Category: Side Effect: Vision / Optical (blindness, macular edema, sudden vision loss)
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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…
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FDA Knew of Possible Viagra-Blindness Link as Early as January 2004
Senator Grassley's June 2005 Letter Criticizes FDA's Delay in Alerting Doctors and Patients In January 2004 an FDA safety officer told her FDA supervisors that doctors and patients should be warned of a possible…
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Pfizer Maintains There is No NAION / Blindness Risk from Viagra
Bayer Has Not Decided Whether to Add NAION Warning for Levitra On June 27, 2005 Pfizer Inc. issued a press release asserting that there is no evidence of any increased risk of developing non-arteritic…