Among the ramifications when a popular drug is found to cause side effects that have serious health consequences is the filing of lawsuits on behalf of victims of these side effects. There is a long history of people who have been victimized by side effects that were not anticipated recovering millions of dollars of damages [...]

The news service Reuters is advising its international subscribers about the dangers of the epilepsy drug Topamax increasing the risk of women who use it during their pregnancies of giving birth to infants suffering from birth defects. Reuters cited an announcement by the Food and Drug Administration in which health officials informed the public that [...]

Citing conflicting reports from medical researchers, the Food and Drug Administration has just confirmed that it is stepping up its review process into possible health problems that could be caused by side effects from the use of birth control pills such as Yaz and Yasmin that contain drospirenone.
The announcement follows years of complaints from [...]

Darvon and Darvocet have now been shown to be such a serious risk to a patient’s health that they have been banned and pulled from the market by their manufacturer, Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals. Studies that have linked the drug to life-threatening heart conditions were one of the factors behind this action after countless millions of the [...]

There appears to be mounting evidence of a link between Prozac and other anti-depressant drugs known as SSRIs and the causation of birth defects in infants born to mothers who used these drugs while pregnant.
Complaints from patients, consumer advocates and findings by medical researchers are putting facts out in public that put the question [...]

What man in his advancing years wouldn’t want a full head of hair? What if there was a drug that could magically halt the pattern of male baldness? What risks would these men take in order to look younger and more vibrant?
All of those questions are relative to the health controversy swirling around the drug [...]

It is quite noticeable from a scanning of court records, media accounts and information posted on the Internet that there are a significant number of lawsuits being filed against the manufacturers of Crestor, a drug that has been widely prescribed and used to control cholesterol levels. Crestor is one of the newer cholesterol drugs and [...]

Women who took the epilepsy drug Topamax during pregnancy were up to 16 times more likely to give birth to infants suffering birth defects such as heart irregularities and cleft lip and cleft palates, according to figures compiled by the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, the earlier in the pregnancy that the mother used [...]

Some serious allegations are being raised against the manufacturers of the painkillers Darvon and Darvocet in lawsuits that are being filed on behalf of patients who used the prescription drugs and wound up suffering serious health problems.
Among the negative side effects that these victims claim were caused by the drugs are abnormal heart rhythms, [...]

April 22, 2011
More information is being released to the public on the popular birth control pills known as Yaz or Yasmin. If you are concerned about this report – please contact your doctor before stopping your Yaz or Yasmin use.
In a new study published in BMJ Online First, are now warning women who have [...]