Jul 13

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Drug company pays millions to victims

Filled under: antidepressant, Avandia, birth defects, brain injury, child death, child safety, Claravis, cold therapy, Crohn's disease, defective drug, Defective Drugs, fentanyl pain patch, GSK, Heparin, IBD, inflammatory bowel disease, Lexapro, Meridia, Paxil, Raptiva, Reglan, seizure drugs, side effects, Sotret, Topamax, ulcerative colitis | Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 |


GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is paying a $41 million fine for selling contaminated drugs all over the United States.

A GSK plant in Puerto Rico made the drugs  between 2001 and 2004. They include the anti–nausea drug Kytril, the antibiotic ointment Bactroban, the anti-depressant Paxil CR and the diabetes drug Avandamet. The plant where the contaminated drugs were made was closed in 2009.

In some cases, pills of different strengths were put in the same bottle. In others, pills of different types were packaged together.  And in some cases, the medications were simply contaminated. (more…)

Jul 30

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Fentanyl pain patch products merit scrutiny for potential dangers

Filled under: defective drug, Defective Drugs, fentanyl pain patch | Friday, July 30th, 2010 |
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A Dallas suburb’s mayor and her daughter are dead, and fentanyl pain patches found in the aftermath — while not blamed — have drawn attention to the powerful narcotic.

A medical examiner’s autopsy report was just released in the deaths of Coppell, TX Mayor Jayne Peters, 55, and daughter Corinne Peters, 19.  Both were found dead of gunshots at their home on July 13. The daughter’s death was ruled a homicide by the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office, while the mother’s death was deemed “consistent” with being a “self-inflicted act.”

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