Dangerous Medications
Medications are often times pulled from the market due to unforeseen side effects that can be dangerous and sometimes even life threatening. Make sure you read up about the latest medication alerts and recalls.
A New England Journal study on the drug Avandia has revealed the possibility of serious health implications for diabetic patients. Avandia is widely prescribed in the United States to diabetics...
Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG has announced that they will stop selling the drug named ZELNORM out of fear it increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, or worsening heart chest pain that can later become a heart attack...
The Federal Government launched a study to determine the long term effects of Prempro, a hormone replacement therapy drug, widely used by post menopausal women...
In the first personal injury case to come to trial involving the drug Vioxx, a injury determined that Merck & Co., makers of the painkiller, must pay more than $253 million to the family of the Texas man who died after taking this drug...
On June 17, 2005, Guidant recalled more than 50,000 of its cardiac defibrillators implanted in patients because of potential malfunctions in the devices...
The Stay Slim Weight Loss Centers located throughout New York claimed to sell healthy low fat, low carb, low calorie food. The only thing they were selling was lies. Stay Slim Centers have been exposed for using 'phoney' low calorie, carb and fat claims on its diet food...
The following is a list of medications which have been considered so dangerous by the medical profession that they have either been withdrawn from the market, or their use is restricted to only certain types of patients, or they are allowed to be used, but all information about the drug is required to contain warnings of the severe side effects that may result...