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…)

Aug 04

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James Marshall of ‘Twin Peaks’ is a bowel disease victim fighting an Accutane lawsuit

Filled under: Accutane, Amnesteem, Claravis, defective drug, Defective Drugs, Sotret | Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 |
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In the early 1990s, actor James Marshall was on top of the world. He’d starred in revolutionary TV series Twin Peaks and also starred in Oscar-nominated military courtroom drama A Few Good Men, alongside top-billed Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson.

Then Marshall’s career hit a roadblock: He began suffering serious digestive disorders caused by his using the acne treatment medication Accutane.

Like millions of Americans, he’d trusted that Roche Pharmaceuticals provided a safe product. He — and they — were wrong. Roche knew that Accutane caused major health problems, but sold it anyway, to the tune of over $1 billion in annual profits.

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