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Johnson & Johnson just had a manufacturing facility in Lancaster, PA shut down by the FDA for failure to pass an inspection. This is the second plant J&J has had shut down after their Fort Washington, PA plant was closed by the company for producing a variety of childrens medications that were either too potent [...]
Over the years, the FDA has approve many drugs, some of which later proved deadly or seriously harmful to individuals’ health. Here’s a short writeup on 10 more recent recalls and why they were recalled. When your doctor prescribes medication for you, you should always look into potential side effects. Do your research and don’t [...]
On May 6th, 2010, the FDA released a report on their inspection of a Tylenol Plant in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. The report was very discouraging and one former employee of Johnson & Johnson was reported to have said the report was “the worst I’ve seen. It suggests that basically the FDA found an issue with [...]
A number of products are being voluntarily recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare due to poor quality control introducing too much or too little of the active ingredient, as well as some contamination of the medicine by bacteria. In some cases black flecks are visible in the liquid. The products include certain liquid infant’s and children’s [...]
The diabetes drug Avandia has been linked to an increase in heart attacks according to a Senate Finance Committee Report. The report shows that in July 2007, Avandia had been associated with 83,000 heart attacks since the drug came to market. Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline disputes the report saying the data wasn’t current enough.
Committee investigators say they [...]
Imagine going for a stroll or walking out to get the mail and suddenly one or both of your femur (thigh) bones just snap in half. An ABC News report shows some of the excruciatingly painful breaks that can occur from side effects from fosamax medication. These side effects show that even with the testing [...]
Millions of women throughout the country have taken the drug Yasmin (also called Yaz and Ocella). Life-threatening Yasmin side effects have resulted from this drug for many of them and if you have been injured while using this birth control pill you may be eligible to file a Yaz lawsuit. Currently no Yasmin class action [...]
Every company that makes a product wants to market it in the best possible light. However, too many companies cross the line in an effort to capture a wider market of sales for their product.
Case-in-point: Nestle, the world’s largest food company, has been hit by the FDA with falsely promoting their “BOOST Kid Essentials [...]
Today, a panel of advisers to the FDA made recommendations to the agency to put new warnings on MRI agents containing the drug Gadolinium, specifically for patients with kidney disease (Reuters link). The problem stems from the body trying to process the Gadolinium and remove it from the system. With kidneys that aren’t functioning optimally, [...]
From Natural News:
“(NaturalNews) For the last several years, I’ve referred to drug companies as “criminal” operations. They have engaged in price fixing, marketing fraud, science fraud and many other criminal activities that we’ve written about here on NaturalNews. And yet, until today, they always managed to avoid the criminal charges by settling with the government [...]
