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alosetron (LOTRONEX)


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  • We list this drug as a Do Not Use drug because it raises heart rate and blood pressure and causes heart attacks and strokes.

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Inadvertent Adverse Reactions With Commonly Used Drugs
January 2012
Find out how to prevent emergency hospitalizations from two commonly used drugs, warfarin (COUMADIN) and clopidogrel (PLAVIX). There are approximately 33,000 emergency hospitalizations a year from warfarin alone. This article includes a list of more than 50 drugs that can have harmful interactions with warfarin and/or clopidogrel.
Drug Mix-Ups
June 2011
This article lists 355 drugs with names that are often confused with similar-sounding drug names. Find out what you can do to prevent getting the wrong drug.
Blockbuster Arthritis Drug Rofecoxib (VIOXX) Withdrawn From Market
November 2004
Vioxx is the ninth prescription drug to be taken off the market in the past seven years that Worst Pills, Best Pills News readers were previously warned DO NOT USE. The average time between warning readers not to use these drugs and their removal from the market was one year and eight months.
Outrage: New Study: Wait Seven Years to Use New Drugs
June 2002
A study published in the May 1, 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has resulted in a major change in the Health Research Group's drug safety policy. The study, in association with physicians from the Harvard Medical School, examined the frequency and timing of the identification of new adverse drug reactions resulting in the addition of a black box warning in the drug's professional product labeling or its outright removal from the market. Three of the authors have close identification with the Health Research Group: its director, Sidney M. Wolfe, and former HRG staffers Drs. Steffi Woolhandler and David Himmelstein. The other co-authors are affiliated with the Harvard Medical School.

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Congress Must Act Quickly to Address Growing Crisis At the Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is suffering from a crisis in leadership, a lack of congressional oversight and a dangerous reliance on the pharmaceutical industry to bankroll its operations, Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen told a House of Representatives subcommittee this morning.
Statement Before the Institute of Medicine Committee Assessing the U.S. Drug Safety System (HRG Publication #1759)
Testimony on the adequacy and conclusions of FDA’s pre-approval review and ongoing post-approval reviews.
Comments on: The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) (HRG Publication #1606)
Public Citizen=s position was then, and remains, that Congress must adequately fund the FDA using public money. Also, PDUFA=s second re-authorization in 1997, with its slavish deadlines and the accompanying ill-advised Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA) are examples of failed experiments in public policy.

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