Prescription drugs should be safe if approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Unfortunately, many are not and the result could be debilitating injury or death for the patient. Same goes for over the counter products. This makes Americas Watchdog barking mad! Huge profits over safety is criminal.
The world’s largest drugmaker, Pfizer, was set to defend itself today in court regarding a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging its Neurontin epilepsy medicine caused a retired minister to commit suicide two months after he began taking the drug for chronic pain, not epilepsy.
However, attorneys for the New York-based firm told a Nashville, Tennessee judge they resolved claims by the family of Richard Smith, but did not disclose the terms, said bloomberg.com. This is the second claim settlement that officials of a Pfizer unit knew the controversial drug posed a suicide risk but failed to alert doctors and patients.
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Omniscan plaintiffs were bolstered by U.S. District Judge Dan Polster’s recent decision regarding their lawsuits. In a 58-page procedural ruling, the judge restricted key parts of GE Healthcare’s case, but said most of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses will be allowed to testify at trials.
GE Healthcare tried to exclude many plaintiff’ theories and witnesses from the proceedings, but Judge Polster rejected those attempts, including one that would have barred a plaintiff theory that Omniscan breaks down chemically, releasing a toxic metal that triggers the debilitating disease called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF). He will also allow testimony by two medical school professors that the company failed to properly warn radiologists concerning Omniscan.
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Four years ago, GE Healthcare experts recommended limiting the use of their gadolinium contrast dye, Omniscan, after it was linked to nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), reveals ProPublica.
The decision was fueled by European reports that tied Omniscan to a likely crippling disease that is now known as NSF. Meeting details were exposed in a lawsuit’s unsealed order against the company, ProPublica said.
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Thickening of the skin, organs and other tissues, broken bones, and difficulty moving the body are associated with a potentially fatal skin disease called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF). Some gadolinium contrast dyes used for MRI scans could be the cause, according to a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel.
Finally, the FDA is taking a stance on current data revealing that Covidien’s Optimart and General Electric’s Omniscan are risky for patients with severe kidney disease. These products already carry a black box warning alerting doctors to avoid using them for those patients unless absolutely necessary. Millions of people have been given these drugs to make MRI scans easier to read.
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