| Oct 27 |
Feds fine GSK $750 million for mislabeled, contaminated drugs, including Paxil
While British-based GSK makes billions of dollars in profits by selling drugs, it too often fails to use those profits to safeguard its customers. In this case, the government found gross negligence by GSK at its factory in Cidra, Puerto Rico. There, the feds found that GSK was producing drugs for sale to Americans which were mislabeled, contaminated with micro-organisms and had the wrong dosage. |
GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK, whose antidepressant drug Paxil causes heart injuries and other birth defects in innocent babies, has been hit with a $750 million fine after the U.S. Justice Department brought suit against it.
| Oct 19 |
Big pharmaceuticals make billions after harmful drugs such as Avandia clear brief testing hurdles
Boosting such strategies is the fact that America’s large “Baby Boomer” population is getting older, and despite a plethora of chronic diseases, many such people are living longer. Thus, an enormous marketing opportunity exists for drug companies which can convince these people — and their physicians — to use their drugs. |
Taking prescription drugs is supposed to be about enhancing your health. But in truth, it’s often a function of giant pharmaceutical companies’ agendas. Bent on making billions, they target large markets with drugs that they can peddle for a lifetime, creating steady flows of revenue.| Sep 24 |
FDA ups heart attack warning for Diabetes patients taking Avandia
Today, the FDA alerted patients and health care professionals that it will substantially limit Avandia’s use for Type 2 Diabetes patients who depend on the drug and can’t take any other to control their Diabetes. The FDA says new data spurred its action — data which indicates a heightened danger for heart attacks and strokes for those taking Avandia. |
Avandia, or rosiglitazone, a drug for Diabetes patients’ blood sugar control, also can harm with heart attack side effects. That hasn’t kept Avandia off the market, but it has made the Food and Drug Administration heighten its warning for the defective drug.| Jul 14 |
Drug wars? Big pharmaceuticals kill and injure, too, as with Avandia, Paxil, Accutane
Take GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharmaceutical giant whose negligence with deadly drugs seems to know no limits. GSK’s latest revealed outrage concerns diabetes medication Avandia, which carries a high risk of causing heart attacks. According to a recent New York Times investigation, GSK knew of this risk for 11 years yet covered it up, continuing to peddle its defective drug even though people were dying as a result. In short, GSK knew it was killing people and did so anyway, all in the name of money. |
The term “drug wars” often refers to violent cartels which bully, bribe and slaughter in the name of illegal drug profits. But another drug war is assailing America, and no machine guns are used. Rather, it’s a war inflicted by huge pharmaceutical companies — often foreign-based — which knowingly sell deadly, defective drugs for years while reaping monstrous profits.| Nov 26 |
New study shows you still may need an Avandia lawyer
If you are among the one million Americans who still take the brand name drug Avandia, you may want to join many others who have stopped taking it. That’s because yet another study of rosiglitazone, the drug used in Avandia, again has been shown to increase death rates in patients, particularly elderly patients with diabetes. A new study by Harvard Medical School researchers, as reported this week in The New York Times, found that patients who took rosiglitazone had 15 per cent higher death rates than those who took pioglitazone, a comparable drug. The study also found a 13 per cent higher incidence of congestive heart failure in those taking rosiglitazone.
The trade-off is that both rosiglitazone and pioglitazone have been found to be dangerous by some researchers, including those who conducted a major study for the New England Journal of Medicine released last year. The European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the American Diabetes Association both have eliminated rosiglitazone from their recommended treatments for type 2 diabetes. Also, consumer watchdog organization Public Citizen has urged the Food and Drug Administration to band rosiglitazone, not only for the heart problems it causes, but also because it may produce vision impairment, liver failure and other maladies. Meanwhile, an estimated one million Americans continue to take rosiglitazone, often in the form of the brand name drug Avandia. If you are one of them, and if you have suffered any harmful effects as a result, contact a physician immediately. Then notify an Avandia lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates. An experienced pharmaceutical lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates also offers a free case review. Call an Avandia attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates today at 1-800-505-1414 or fill out the firm’s online form for a free case review. Then launch the process of gaining your full and just financial recovery for your medical bills, your lost wages and your pain and suffering due to negative side effects of Avandia. |
Both drugs are taken by persons with diabetes to help control their body sugar by enhancing their sensitivity to insulin, and the drugs often are taken along with other diabetes medicine. One goal is to enable patients to fend off taking insulin.