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Vioxx Lawsuits Will Take Several Years to Resolve
Legal Claims Filed Against Merck May Exceed 100,000 The federal court judge overseeing the recently established Multi-district Litigation ("MDL") for the personal injury and wrongful death cases involving the withdrawn pain drug Vioxx said…
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Natrecor Linked to Increased Death Rates and Kidney Problems
Medical Journals Raised Questions about Safety of Natrecor Natrecor has been reported to increase kidney problems and death rates among patients in recent editions of Circulation and The Journal of the American Medical Association…
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Rhabdomyolysis Risk for Statin Users Increased By Drinking Grapefruit Juice
Risk is Most Significant for Patients on Cholesterol-lowering Zocor There is an increased risk of developing rhabdomyolysis, a potentially life-threatening muscle disorder, for patients taking statins when they drink grapefruit juice. This problem occurs…
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Multiple Prescription Medication Use by Americans Has Increased
Identification of Serious Drug-Drug Interactions: Internet Tools The aging of the population and increasing complexity of medication regimens used by patients, coupled with a fragmented health care system involving multiple prescribers, has made the…
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Medication Errors are Often Preventable: Patient Advice
How to Avoid being Dispensed or Prescribed the Wrong Drug It has been a few years since the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) published their report To Err is Human: Building…
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Serzone Class Action Settlement: Confidential Inventory Form Due May 13, 2005
Settlement Covers All Serzone Users Who Did Not "Opt-out" by April 8, 2005 Deadline All persons in the United States and its territories who were prescribed Serzone — an anti-depressant drug marketed and distributed…
