Category Archives: Dangerous Drugs
Allergan Settles on Botox Case
Allergan, Inc. has admitted to attempting to market and sell Botox for unapproved uses. There has been a criminal investigation into Allergan’s marketing activities for the product Botox. Prosecutors report that the marketing was aimed at increasing off label sales as a treatment for headaches, spasticity, pain and cerebral palsy. Based on the allegations within the lawsuit, as a part of their shady marketing practices the company trained doctors how to bill for using Botox for unapproved uses and set up a Reimbursement hotline to help doctors get reimbursed for using Botox for unapproved uses. The settlement of the investigation includes an admission of guilt by Allergan, Inc. a criminal fine of $375 million and a $225 million civil settlement to the federal government. The civil settlement resolves the allegations that Botox has induced doctors to trick the government into paying for the use of Botox for non-sanctioned uses. The…
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Mother Blames Birth Control for her Daughters Death
When 18 year old Michelle Pfleger collapsed in class and was pronounced dead a few hours later, her mother never gave a thought that the birth control pill Yaz, that her daughter was taking to treat acne had caused her death. An autopsy has determined that a blood clot in Michelle’s lung caused her death, and it has been noted that the report did not link the untimely death to her prescription medication. Because the young woman was taking Yaz to treat acne, which it has not been FDA approved for, several close friends suggested that Michelle’s mother look into other cases where women have died from taking Yaz and Yasmin. The concerned mother collected evidence that links Yaz with an increased risk of blood clots. A woman in Switzerland recently died from the same type of lung blood clot as Michelle and her death was attributed to the birth…
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German man wants to force Bayer to acknowledge defect with pregnancy drug
A German newspaper recently reported that letters written by scientists in the UK and Germany indicate that concern was being raised about the pregnancy test drug Duogynon in 1967 – yet it was still being prescribed until at least 1975. André Sommer from Pfronten, Bavaria, is suing Bayer for the defects he suffered after his mother took the drug while pregnant with him in 1975. He was born with severe problems with his bladder and sexual organs. His case will be heard soon by the Berlin District Court, and will include the documents which have recently come to light in which doctors wrote to each other about problems they had observed. “The seeming relation between the increase in birth defects and the sale of the pregnancy test is pretty alarming,” one scientist wrote on November 1967. “We have to be extremely careful,” when using the drug with pregnant women, another…
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