FDA & Prescription Drugs | InjuryBoard Charlottesville

Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, has sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to a prescription painkiller sold under such names as Darvon and Darvocet. They claim this drug is too...

Because there have been repeated instances of popular medications proving to be deadly, federal health officials have announced a major effort to use information on Medicare claims to evaluate...

Recently, actor Dennis Quaid and his wife filed a lawsuit against drug manufacturer, Baxter Medical Corp., after a hospital unintentionally injected their newborn twins with the wrong dosage of a...

Baxter Healthcare Corp., a drug and medical device maker, spent $730,000 lobbying Congress, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Homeland...

The heparin tragedy has made Americans aware that Chinese-made products need to be inspected as thoroughly as products made in the United States. They must meet U.S. health and safety standards....

At a Senate hearing several weeks ago, Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, assured the American public that the heparin found in...

The Bush administration, along with the pharmaceutical industry, is attempting to prevent consumers from being able to file damage suits for injuries caused by federally approved drugs. The Supreme...

In October, a decision is being made by the Supreme Court that could jeopardize a patient’s right to sue a drug company if a drug that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) harmed...

In a critical trial of two widely used heart drugs to lower cholesterol, Zetia and Vytorin, the lead investigator has said the drugs’ manufacturers, Merck and Schering-Plough, were purposely...

Heparin, a blood thinner manufactured in China, has been linked to nineteen deaths. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only became aware of the problem after many people became sick. The agency...

Federal drug regulators suspect Americans might have been the victims of a lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting scheme after the mystery ingredient in certain batches of heparin was found to be an...