Tag: drug safety
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Iclusig: Leukemia Drug With Many Different Serious Side Effects Had More Warnings Added In November 2016
Black-Box Warning Now Includes Venous Thromboembolism As Well As Various Types Of Arterial Occlusions, And There Are More New Safety Issues (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) Iclusig (ponatinib) is a kinase…
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Jardiance Might Become The Next Blockbuster Diabetes Drug Despite Ketoacidosis And Acute Kidney Injury Side Effects
December 2016 FDA Determination About Cardiovascular Benefits Also Includes Increased Drug Safety Warnings Label Change For Jardiance (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) After the December 2, 2016 decision by the FDA…
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Long-Term Use Of Heartburn Drugs And Acid Reflux Medicines Like Prevacid, Prilosec, and Nexium May Be Linked To Strokes
The Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) Class Of Drugs Has Long Been Associated With Some Serious Kidney-Related Side Effects (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) There has long been medical evidence — albeit…
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Is Eliquis Really A Safe Alternative To Warfarin For A Patient On Hemodialysis, One Pharmacist Wonders
The Prescribing Information For Eliquis Suggests Such Use Is Safe, But There Is Limited Clinical Study Data In Support (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) _________________________________________ UPDATE: Here are two new…
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Eliquis May Appear To Be Safer Than Xarelto, But There Is No Randomized Head-To-Head Clinical Trials Comparing The Two, Yet
One Unfortunate Fact These Two New Blood-Thinners Have In Common Is That Neither Has An FDA-Approved Antidote At Present Time (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) Earlier this month the medical journal…
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FDA Mandates Label Change Warning About Fatal Cases Of Ketoacidosis For All Diabetes Drugs Known As Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter-2 (SGLT2) Inhibitors
This Class Of (Heavily Advertised) Drugs Includes Farxiga, Invokana, And Jardiance, Which Also Are Linked To Kidney Failure And Heart Attacks Or Myocardial Infarction (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) In an…
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Invokana / Farxiga / Jardiance: Urinary Tract Infections Leading To Urosepsis And Pyelonephritis Are Lesser Known Side Effects
To Date, More Attention Paid To The Association Between These Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors And Diabetic Ketoacidosis Or Acute Kidney Injury (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) Over the past year the FDA…
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Savaysa Is Safe And Effective According To Recent Study, But Doctors Still Concerned About Lack Of Antidote To Stop Bleeding
Some Xarelto And Eliquis Lawsuits Accuse Drug Makers Of Failing To Warn That In Event Of Uncontrollable Bleeding There Is No Antidote, Just Like With Savaysa (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) …
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A Tecfidera Label Change Modifying Warnings About Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) Was Done In February 2016 With Little Notice
Biogen Idec First Added Information About Tecfidera Being Assoicated With PML Brain Infection Back In December 2014, After An FDA Drug Safety Communication Was Issued (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) Tecfidera…