A Canadian study has revealed that the popular smoking cessation drug, Chantix, increases the risk of heart problems in smokers who take the medication. In the study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers concluded that the drug’s long list of dangerous side effects also includes heart attacks and…
An 18-year-old college student died of cardiac arrest in September after she took YAZ to treat her acne. The student’s mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bayer, the maker of YAZ, also known as Yasmin or Ocella. The lawsuit alleges YAZ is a “dangerous prescription drug sold without…
Side effects of Pfizer’s stop-smoking drug, Champix (known as Chantix in the United States) has caused Health Canada to issue strong warnings, reports NewsInferno.
Bloomberg Business Week reports the largest drug maker in the U.K., GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo), has agreed to pay $60 million in the first settlements of lawsuits over their drug, Avandia. This diabetes drug has been cited as causing heart attacks and strokes in some of the users.
Chantix is an anti-smoking drug made by Pfizer and approved by the FDA on May of 2006. Since that time many users have reported serious side effects such as depression, suicidal thoughts and other psychotic episodes. According to the FDA, blackouts and unconsciousness leading to car accidents have also been…
AstraZeneca, the U.K.’s second-largest drug maker, faces over 14,000 lawsuits claiming its antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes diabetes. A U.S. District Judge said she will recommend sending all the cases back to their home courts for trial. AstraZeneca wanted the judge to send only 60 cases back to their home courts…
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $75 million in punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed cancer after taking one of Pfizer’s menopause drugs. The punitive award is about 20 times greater than the $3.7 million awarded in actual damages. More than 6 million women have taken Prempro, a hormone…
After the story broke this week about a North Carolina factory tied to bacteria-tainted syringes that killed five patients, criminal investigators revealed a startling fact — the company’s “chief microbiologist” was a teenage high school dropout. The case raises a glaring question: As this pharmaceutical tragedy was taking shape, where…
With the increasing reports of suicidal thoughts and other serious neuropsychiatric symptoms tied to the anti-smoking drug Chantix, the drug’s maker has launched a new ad that does not even mention the product by name. Consumer Reports says such ads are known as “help-seeking” ads come in handy for drugs…
A New Jersey jury has awarded nearly $13 million to three acne drug users who developed severe inflammatory bowel disease after taking the medication. The three plaintiffs are Florida residents who used the drug to treat adolescent acne. All three developed bowel disorders, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. If…