Medications
Beware Safety Risks Posed by ‘Off-Label’ Drug Use
Study raises concerns about using meds to treat conditions for which they weren’t approved By Karen Pallarito, HealthDay News, Nov. 2, 2015. “Off-label” drug use puts patients at risk for serious side effects, especially when scientific… Read More
Effort To Control Opioids In An ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients In Pain
By Sam Whitehead, NPR Shots, Jan 02, 2020. India Hardy has lived with pain since she was a toddler — from dull persistent aches to acute flare-ups that interrupt the flow of her normal life…. Read More
Drug Shortages Putting Patients At Risk
By Julie Appleby, The Washington Post, September 24, 2019 Medical treatment has knocked down tumors in 6-year-old Easton Daniels’s brain, but the drug that helped him also wiped out his immune system. To bolster his… Read More
Low levels of chemical that’s been linked to cancer discovered in Zantac, Ranitidine
The FDA says this is the same cancer-linked chemical found previously in blood pressure medications. By Erika Edwards, NBC News, Sept. 13, 2019. The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that low levels of a cancer-linked chemical have been… Read More
Prevacid, Nexium, and Prilosec Lawsuits
By Mike Papantonio, Trial Attorney and Legal Expert. Prevacid lawsuits stem from patients experiencing a high risk of serious side effects like kidney disease and bone fractures. Patients claim the manufacturer failed to warn them… Read More
Johnson & Johnson Ordered To Pay Oklahoma $572 Million In Opioid Trial
By Jackie Fortier, Brian Mann. NPR. An Oklahoma judge has ruled that drugmaker Johnson & Johnson helped ignite the state’s opioid crisis by deceptively marketing painkillers and must pay $572 million to the state. Oklahoma… Read More
Medication Administration Errors A Serious Safety Problem
From the Patient Safety Network, Jan 2019. Adverse Drug Event (ADE) is an injury that occurs as a result of medication error. Medication errors need to be addressed for improving patient safety, as there is… Read More
Reflux Drugs Tied to Bone Fractures in Children
By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times. Infants are sometimes treated for gastroesophageal reflux with acid-suppressing medicines, but a new study suggests that they may increase the risk for bone fracture later in childhood. Researchers studied… Read More
FDA Overlooked Red Flags In Drug maker’s Testing of New Depression Medicine
By Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News. Ketamine is a darling of combat medics and clubgoers, an anesthetic that can quiet your pain without suppressing breathing and a hallucinogenic that can get you high with little… Read More