News tagged with 'Drugs'

Georgetown University discussed the potential for a conflict-of-interest between doctors and pharmaceutical companies that partially fund continuing-education for doctors.

For more than 20 years, the FDA has been urging the drug and agriculture industries to stop using antibiotics in animal feed and water. With antibiotic resistance at epidemic proportions, the agency is giving the public 60 days to comment before it issues new industry guidance.

All drugs have side effects and the latest published study finds that a class of blood pressure drugs known as angiotensin-receptor blockers or ARBs had a slight increased risk of cancer.

AstraZeneca is fined $520 million for illegally marketing the anti-psychotic drug, Seroquel for uses not approved by the FDA, including for use among the elderly and adolescents.

Fosamax and similar drugs are supposed to make bones stronger. But new research shows staying on these drugs for five or more years can increase the risk of hip fractures.

With more than five million people in the US reportedly misusing prescription pain relievers, the FDA is asking drug makers to formulate a risk-management plan for the entire class of opioids to avoid overdose and death.

The FDA has allowed many drugs that were fast-tracked to stay on the market while no post marketing surveillance has been undertaken and none have been pulled off the market, criticizes the Government Accountability Office in this report.

The FDA is finding fraudulent products marketed on the Internet to fight the swine flu. It warns consumers to deal only with U.S.- based pharmacies because criminals are ready and willing to capitalize on the swine flu outbreak.

GlaxoSmithKline must pay $2.5 million to settle a claim that Paxil caused significant heart defects in a 3-year-old Bensalem boy.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a flush list for certain medications, but another federal agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says don't flush any medication.

Sheller, P.C. law firm, also an InjuryBoard Member, was instrumental in aiding the government to recoup record numbers of dollars for federal and state governments, taxpayers and whistleblowers in two historic cases against Eli Lilly and Pfizer.

The results of a new study suggests implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are not effective in women.

R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies have filed suit against federal authorities claiming their right to free speech has been violated by a new tobacco law. The suit seeks to overturn portions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

At least one-third of the cocaine in the U.S. and Canada has been found to be tainted with an animal de-wormer. Three deaths and hundreds of illnesses are linked to the contaminated cocaine.

Researchers have identified a compound that can destroy breast cancer stem cells, a type of master cell resistant to conventional treatment. This research introduces a completely new way of identifying cancer drugs.