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| Deaths Related with Anemia Drugs; FDA Reviews the Files |
A German study made on patients who had strokes showed that many of them had been treated with an anemia drug released by Johnson & Johnson, as federal health official reported on Friday. The FDA now seeks answers for the higher death rates among those patients.
The Food and Drug Administration said that 16% of the patients who were given Eprex,... |
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 According to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, more people than ever are passing away as a consequence of accidental drug overdoses. These are being caused by combining prescription medications with street drugs and alcohol.As shown by the most recent study carried out by University of California, San Diego,...
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 Bayer HealthCare and co-developer Onyx
Pharmaceuticals Inc has announced that they have received approval from Chinese
regulators for Nexavar to help treat metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma or liver
cancer.
China has
350,000 new liver cancer patients every year, according to Leng Xisheng,
president of the Chinese Collegeof...
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Viagra was first produced to enable male erections. Yet, studies have shown that women taking Viagra could help them have orgasms more often. As the JAMA study shows, it also increases the blood circulation from the clitoris. Other researchers have shown that this engorge of the clitoris doesn’t produce higher sexual satisfaction.Robert...
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The need to escape reality has increased so much that people don’t even need to know of what are made the drugs they take. May it be any kind of pain; people prefer to ignore it by taking drugs that eliminate it from their minds.From 2005 to 2007 nearly 1,000 people died after taking an overdose of fentanyl, a highly drug used a pain...
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 According to a report released by British researchers in the
July 22 issue of the journal Neurology, pregnant women who take an epilepsy
drug called topiramate alone or associated with other epilepsy medicines may be
more predisposed to birth defects.
Topiramate, put up for sale by Johnson & Johnson under
the brand name...
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 A newborn baby has passed away at a Corpus Christi Hospital, Texas, after being applied an overdose of the blood thinner heparin, informed on Wednesday the local Caller-Times newspaper. Other 16 infants received an overdose. Allegedly, nurses used 10,000 units of the drug instead of 10.It is unknown if heparin had a contribution in the...
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 According to the New York Times, drug manufacturers whose
products are not all set for authorization in the United States will shortly receive
replies from watchdogs in a new layout meant to a certain extent to prevent
alarming financiers.
The Food and Drug Administration will send complex response
letters when drugs are not...
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 Given the fact that web sites do not ask Internet users for a prescription to purchase narcotics and stimulants, everybody can procure some. None of those sites has controls to keep children away from buying them, a report revealed.The study, entitled “You've Got Drugs! V: Prescription Drug Pushers on the Internet” and released today by...
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 Seventeen babies at a Texas hospital had taken an overdose of the blood thinner drug. One has passed away, although it is not clear yet if heparin had a contribution in the infant’s death, reported CNN, which got the information from Corpus Christi Hospital officials. Nurses allegedly used 10,000 units of the medicine instead of 10, and...
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 Mass Murder in Memphis Home, 6 Killed
The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other...
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