FDA & Prescription Drugs

• New Study Shows Yaz Birth Control Pill Carries Greater Risk of Blood Clots

  Jean Martin | August 31, 2009 9:27 AM | 6 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Women’s birth control is an area of pharmaceutical medicine that sees innovation and improvement at a faster rate than nearly any other type of pharmaceutical drug. One of the more recent...

• Recently Diagnosed with Diabetes? What Could Be the Cause?

  Jean Martin | July 25, 2008 10:26 AM | 4 CommentsWilmington, NC

  The number of people living with diabetes keeps growing. It is estimated that over 23 million people, or 7.8% of the US population, has diabetes. That is a staggering number. If you or a loved one...

• Anticipation - Waiting for the Jury in the First Fosamax Case to Go to Trial

  Jean Martin | September 03, 2009 10:08 AM | 2 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Closing arguments were held yesterday in the first trial against Merck concerning the osteoporosis drug Fosamax. Millions of women have taken Fosamax to counter bone loss associated with menopause....

• Fosamax Users At Increased Risk for Irregular Heart Rhythm

  Jean Martin | April 29, 2008 12:41 PM | 2 CommentsWilmington, NC

  A study has found that women who use the drug Fosamax are twice as likely to develop an irregular heartbeat condition known as atrial fibrillation as women who have never taken the drug. The 86%...

• New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? Be Careful If You Choose Chantix

  Jean Martin | December 31, 2009 12:55 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  It's almost New Year's Eve, which means that many people will be making New Year's resolutions soon. And if you are an avid smoker, maybe your resolution for this year will be to put up the...

• Watch For Prescription Errors This Cold And Flu Season

  Jean Martin | October 27, 2009 12:27 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  It's cold and flu season again, and you know what that means: more trips to the doctor's office, and more prescriptions to fill out at your local pharmacy. Unfortunately, as pharmacies fill out...

• Newer Antipsychotic Drugs Pose As Much Risk of Heartattack As Older Drugs

  Gary Shipman | January 16, 2009 2:25 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  In a study released on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, heart attack risks were doubled in people taking Zyprexa (Eli Lilly & Co.) and Risperdal (Johnson & Johnson) and...

• Dear Justices, Before You Rule on Preemption, this just in: Pfizer manipulated studies related to Neurontin

  Jean Martin | October 08, 2008 12:43 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  Experts have concluded that Pfizer manipulated scientific studies to bolster the use of the epilepsy drug Neurontin for other uses. This report comes from experts who are reviewing documents for...

• Club Nuva – You may want to rethink membership

  Jean Martin | September 09, 2008 4:17 PM | 1 CommentWilmington, NC

  ClubNuva is an extreme marketing ploy, the likes of which I’ve never seen, being used by Schering Plough and Organon to promote the use of the NuvaRing vaginal ring contraceptive. In an attempt to...

• Metronidazole Tablets Recalled By Teva

  Chrissie Cole | January 07, 2011 8:24 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  A voluntary recall of Metronidazole Tablets USP was announced yesterday by Teva Pharmaceuticals, due to the presence of underweight tablets. If a tablet is underweight, it may not contain the...