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Walgreens Mistakenly Replaced Prenatal Vitamins with Chemotherapy Drugs, Lawsuit Alleges

5/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) A couple from St. Louis has filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit against Walgreen Co. after Chanda Givens had her prescription for prenatal vitamins filled instead with a chemotherapy drug that caused her to miscarry. Givens...

U.S. Supreme Court Poised to Strip Consumers of Right to Sue over Deadly Pharmaceuticals

2/25/2008 - (NaturalNews) In arguments and discussion for Warner-Lambert Co. v. Kent heard today, Justices are proposing that consumers should not be able to sue pharmaceutical companies for damages from side effects because some people might be helped by those...

Heparin Blood Thinner Drug Linked to Sudden Deaths; Cheap Ingredients Imported from Chinese Chemical Factory

2/15/2008 - (NaturalNews) In case you haven't heard, the popular blood thinning drug Heparin was voluntarily recalled by its manufacturer (Baxter) after hundreds of reports surfaced linking the drug to sudden deaths and severe allergic reactions requiring hospitalization....

Just Say No to Prescription Drugs

12/4/2007 - (NaturalNews) Assuming you’re eating well, sleeping well, exercising and tending to your relationships, the next best optimal health step you can take after the age of fifty is to avoid prescription drugs. All prescription drugs - without exception -...

Suicide Link to Acne Drug Officially Established

12/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) A clear chemical link has been established between the acne drug Roaccutane and the history of depression and suicide associated with its usage, according to researchers at the University of Bath.  Writing in the journal Experimental...

FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousands

8/1/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the...

FDA Knew of Avandia's Dangers Nearly Five Years Ago, Memo Shows

5/23/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew nearly five years ago about the dangers associated with the diabetes drug Avandia, an internal FDA memo shows. A study released Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 43 percent increase in...

Antipsychotic drugs cause rapid weight gain, abnormal eating behavior

3/5/2007 - (NaturalNews) Researchers may have discovered why certain antipsychotic medications, such as those used to treat schizophrenia, lead to extreme weight gain. A study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences" suggests that these...

Ketek antibiotic to carry black box warning, new use limitations by FDA

2/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The FDA has strengthened its warnings on the controversial antibiotic Ketek and banned the drug's use for treatment of sinusitis and bronchitis. The new move follows a yearlong FDA investigation into the drug's side effects. "FDA has...

Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company concealed clinical test results that suggested Paxil unsafe, says BBC

1/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) The BBC television series Panorama accused pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline this week of covering test results that link the antidepressant, Paxil, with increased suicidal tendencies in teens. Paxil, Seroxat or Paroxetine, as the...

Cold medications proving deadly to infants

1/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines can injure or even kill children younger than 2, according to a new study appearing in the Jan. 12 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the CDC. Three infants from...

Brain bleeding from use of anticoagulant increasing since the 1990s, researchers report

1/16/2007 - (NaturalNews) According to an article in the Jan. 9 issue of Neurology, brain bleeding associated with the blood thinner warfarin -- also known as Coumadin -- increased roughly 500 percent in the 1990s, and by an even greater degree in patients aged 80...

Parkinson's drugs found to pose severe risk of damage to heart valves

1/15/2007 - (NaturalNews) New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that two drugs prescribed for Parkinson's disease might have much greater risks for heart valve damage than previously thought. In the first study, researchers from...

New diabetes drug causes weight gain, bone fractures

12/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a new study published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline's new Avandia diabetes drug delays the progression of type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed patients, but may cause serious side effects, including...

Health officials call for access to unpublished studies during drugs trials

12/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) A recent drug trial that almost killed six volunteers is being investigated by volunteers who are intent on preventing a repeat of the near-tragedy. The volunteer scientists are part of a group of British-government appointees led by Professor...

Pfizer ends development of "blockbuster" cholesterol drug after excessive patient deaths

12/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced that it has ended a clinical trial for the highly anticipated cholesterol drug torcetrapib -- which raises levels of "healthy" HDL cholesterol -- after a high number of patients participating in the...

Taking Paxil during pregnancy causes heart defects in fetuses, warn obstetricians

12/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) Pregnant women and those who might become pregnant should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of a high risk of birth defects, according to a committee of obstetricians who published their opinion yesterday in the December issue...

Anemia drug found to cause fatal heart attacks and strokes

11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned doctors not to excessively boost patients' red blood cell counts with anti-anemia drugs. This came after the publication of a clinical trial earlier in the week that found exceeding...

Tamiflu drug made with cocktail of chemical ingredients, linked with bizarre behavior

11/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a list compiled by Dr. Patricia Doyle at rense.com, a host of strange ingredients are used to make up Hoffman-La Roche's anti-flu drug Tamiflu, which has recently been connected with bizarre behavior, mostly in children. Patients...

Crushing pharmaceutical pills to make them easier to swallow increases their danger

10/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) If you're used to crushing prescription drug pills to make them easier to swallow or ingest, you may be doing more harm than good, warns a new report from medical experts. According to David Wright -- who led the study -- crushing pills...

Popular diabetes drug useless, even harmful, for diabetics, study suggests

10/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) A recent study notes the diabetes drug pioglitazone (Actos) has no clear-cut benefit for patients with type 2 diabetes, and may even be harmful to users. The scientists analyzed data from 22 clinical trials involving 6,200 patients who...

Blood thinner Coumadin gets black box warning over fatal bleeding side effect

10/9/2006 - (NaturalNews) U.S. health officials announced on Friday that drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb has added a black box warning to its blood-thinning drug Coumadin warning of possible "major or fatal bleeding." According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,...

Bipolar drug Lamictal tied to birth defects when used by expectant mothers

10/2/2006 - (NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that expectant mothers taking GlaxoSmithKline's epilepsy and bipolar disorder drug Lamictal could experience a higher rate of birth defects than women not taking the drug. A recent...

Why is Fido dead? Prescription drugs are killing dogs, too

9/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) The FDA has released information concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pets -- including Metacam, Deramaxx, Previcox and Rimadyl -- that shows they have been connected to 22,000 cases of illness in dogs, almost 3,000 of which...

FDA whistleblower warns about safety of new arthritis drug Arcoxia

9/15/2006 - (NaturalNews) Associate Director of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety Dr. David Graham is well-known for blowing the whistle on both Merck and his own agency during the Vioxx scandal, and now he is warning the public about another Merck drug called Arcoxia....

Vioxx found to be the single most dangerous cox-2 inhibitor drug, yet FDA publicly defends it

9/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to two new studies on the safety of NSAIDs, Vioxx may have been the most dangerous drug in the history of that class of drugs. Vioxx's closest competitors -- Bextra and Celebrex -- were also closely scrutinized in the wake of...

Antidepressant Paxil found to double the risk of violent behavior

9/12/2006 - (NaturalNews) New British research has found that users of GlaxoSmithKline's antidepressant drug Paxil were twice as likely to experience violent behavior compared to patients taking placebo. Researchers from Cardiff University in Britain and the Cochrane...

"Miracle" cancer drug Glivec found to cause heart cell death, heart failure

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) A study of targeted cancer therapy Glivec (Imantinib mesylate) found that the treatment could cause heart failure, and moreover, could indicate side effect issues for other targeted therapies. The FDA approved Glivec in May of 2001 after...

Elderly at high risk of harm from toxic pharmaceutical combinations

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) -- A recent UK survey found that seniors run a high risk of accidentally taking lethal combinations of prescription drugs. Kim Munro, a pharmacist at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, recently surveyed 695 elderly people aged 78 to 86,...

Beta-blocker drugs found to promote diabetes

9/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) New UK research indicates that taking beta-blocker drugs to treat high blood pressure can increase the risk of developing diabetes by 50 percent, compared to newer drugs. Researchers from Imperial College London studied 14,000 blood...

Cancer patient killed by massive chemotherapy drugs administered with an automatic pump

9/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) Alberta Cancer Board official Dr. Tony Fields apologized Thursday to the family of a woman who died last week from massive overdose of the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil, which led to multiple organ failure and internal bleeding. Two...

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