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Preventing Serious Adverse Drug Reactions In The U.S. (Part of Series: ADRs in US)
Part Two: FDA-MIT Database Project Should Improve Drug-safety Monitoring In our first part to this series, we took a look at the extent of serious adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the U.S. In this…
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Extent Of Serious Adverse Drug Reactions In The U.S. (Part of Series: ADRs in US)
Part One: An Introduction To This All Too Common Problem The World Health Organization defines adverse drug reactions (ADRs), also known as adverse drug events (ADEs), in this manner: A response to a drug…
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Some Antibiotics Linked To Tendon Rupture; Public Citizen Petitions FDA For Stronger Warnings
Targets Fluoroquinolone Class of Antibiotics: Tequin, Levaquin, Cipro, et al. ____________________________________________________________________ UPDATE: For recent developments regarding personal injury lawsuits that involve Levaquin and tendon-related side effects, visit the Levaquin Information page over at our Drug…
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FDA Approves New, Stronger Warnings For ADHD Drugs
Sudden Deaths, Strokes, And Heart Attacks In Adults At Usual Doses Several drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — including GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Plc’s Dexedrine, Novartis AG’s Ritalin, Johnson & Johnson’s Concerta, and…
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Vioxx: Judge Higbee Sets 39 Vioxx Lawsuits For 2007 Trial Dates
Consolidated Trials For Groups Of Individual Cases Is Possibility By way of The Philadelphia Inquirer we learned on July 28, 2006 that Bloomberg News is reporting 8,800 Vioxx lawsuits have been filed against Merck…
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Anti-Epileptic Drugs Associated With Birth Defects And Fetal Death
Study Looks At Depakote, Dilantin, Tegretol, And Lamictal An August 8, 2006 article in the Los Angeles Times (LA Times) reports about a recent study involving four popular epilepsy drugs which found that one…
