Dangerous Drugs Lawsuits News

Doctors Develop New Approach To Web-based Drug Withdrawal Warnings
Science Daily (press release) - Oct 1, 2006... In just 18 hours after the drug recall, all instances of Bextra on NetWellness were updated and active, says Embi. The new method ...

Outdated flu e-mails circulating
Pacific Daily News, GU - Oct 5, 2006... The e-mail titled "Drug recall Info -- Really Important Information," warns readers not to purchase or consume products containing the chemical ...

Click here and call me in the morning
Birmingham News, AL - 22 hours ago... The systems can sort the patients by diagnosis or prescriptions, which allows a doctor to quickly send out notices in case of a drug recall or a change in ...

UC Develops New Approach To Web-based Drug Withdrawal Warnings
Medical News Today - In just 18 hours after the drug recall, all instances of Bextra on NetWellness were updated and active, says Embi. The new method, initiated by the FDA's automated MedWatch E-List alert and combined with modified technology and people processes

Outdated flu e-mails circulating
Guam Pacific Daily News - Just like the cold comes along during the flu season, a bogus e-mail warning against the use of certain pharmaceutical products is making its way around the nation, including Guam. The e-mail titled "Drug recall Info -- Really Important Information

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Drug-warnings.com Rolls Out New Prescription Drug Recall Information Portal Drug-warnings.com, an independent information source on pharmaceutical recalls, warnings and alerts unveils new website to speed drug recall information to the public. - 2004

Personal Injury Law Resource Site Opens
24-7PressRelease.com - 24-7PressRelease/ - June 11, 2005 - The Personal Injury Lawyer Directory - http://www.the-injury-lawyer-directory.com is now open to serve the needs of a growing community of people who are looking for no-nonsense information about drug recall

More drugs get slapped with lawsuits
USA Today - Not only are there fewer cases, but also it's difficult to prove that a drug caused someone's cancer a key hurdle in most drug lawsuits, Noah says. Plaintiffs in the Neurontin lawsuits face a similar challenge, says lawyer Mike Papantonio of Levin

Manning Selvage & Lee Creates Global Healthcare Issues Management ...
Genetic Engineering News (press release), NY - Jul 26, 2006... In a recent article (April 22, 2006) in The New York Times, reporter Alex Berenson writes that "the next wave of drug lawsuits is coming," following Merck's ...

Tort reform boosts state's business image
Hattiesburg American, MS - Jul 30, 2006... Mississippi insurers wouldn't cover him at an affordable rate, he said, because he had been named in 10 class-action drug lawsuits - six of which he said ...

Tort reform boosts state's business image
Hattiesburg American - Mississippi insurers wouldn't cover him at an affordable rate, he said, because he had been named in 10 class-action drug lawsuits - six of which he said judges have since thrown out. Plaintiffs in such suits often believe it's just the drug companies

Manning Selvage & Lee Creates Global Healthcare Issues Management and
Genetic Engineering News - In a recent article (April 22, 2006) in The New York Times, reporter Alex Berenson writes that "the next wave of drug lawsuits is coming," following Merck's 11,500 suits over Vioxx, its arthritis drug. The drugs now under attack include Seroquel, an

RxHub Receives Reports of ePrescribing Successes from Physicians Nationwide
The impact of providing patient eligibility, formulary and medication history information to physicians at the point of care is being realized across the United States as reports pour in from physicians utilizing healthcare technology applications that have been certified through RxHub. In the first six months of 2006, RxHub delivered over 2.3 million patient medication history responses to

Urgent Notice-Drug Recall: Roxane Laboratories Initiates a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of a Single Manufacturing Lot of
Roxane Laboratories, Inc., announced today that it is conducting a nationwide voluntary recall of a single manufacturing lot of Azathioprine tablets, USP 50 mg, .

Deaths Spur Cholesterol Drug Recall
A cholesterol-lowering drug taken by 700,000 Americans ? Bayer Pharmaceutical's Baycol ? has been pulled off the market.

Health Canada rejects call to restrict ibuprofen access
Health Canada is rejecting the advice of its own expert panel to move ibuprofen behind the counter despite new British findings that high doses carry the same risk of heart attack as Vioxx.

RxHub Receives Reports of ePrescribing Successes from Physicians
Insurance News Net - Overhage. Patient Safety Improved Electronic prescribing improves patient care and safety as evidenced by a recent highly publicized drug recall. Upon receiving notice about an immediate drug recall, Dr. Salvatore Volpe, a physician practicing in Staten

Drug Company Recalls Azathioprine
WCPO - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Roxane Laboratories is recalling a tablet used to help patients from rejecting kidney transplants and those with rheumatoid arthritis. The Columbus-based company says a bottle containing the wrong medication was found in one

Health Canada rejects call to restrict ibuprofen access
Regina Leader-Post - Vioxx was pulled from the market two years ago in the biggest drug recall in history after studies showed it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke. Preliminary findings from the U.K. study formed part of the Canadian panel's recommendation