Almost a year after online pharmacy Valisure notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it had found unsafe levels of a carcinogen in Zantac (ranitidine) samples tested, the FDA has requested that all ranitidine products be pulled from the market immediately. The recall…
In February 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested the withdrawal of the weight-loss drug, Belviq and Belviq XR (lorcaserin). The administration took this move because a safety clinical trial showed that Belviq could increase the occurrence of cancer. Manufacturer Eisai Inc. voluntarily removed…
Recently published research lends credence to the theory that vitamin E acetate is a significant factor in the thousands of e-cigarette related lung illnesses reported across the country over the past several months. Early laboratory data showed that vitamin E acetate, which is an additive…
On March 2, 2020, online pharmacy Valisure announced in a press release that it had detected N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)–a probable human carcinogen—in samples of prescription drug products containing metformin, a common type 2 diabetes treatment. Considering these results, the company filed a Citizen’s Petition with the…
Many adults addicted to regular cigarettes turn to e-cigarettes in the hope that they may help them to quit smoking tobacco. Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Tobacco Research and Treatment Center showed that using e-cigarettes daily helped U.S. smokers to quit smoking regular cigarettes.…
After the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered the consolidation of all federally filed Zantac lawsuits into the Southern District of Florida, District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg scheduled the first status conference for March 20, 2020. At that time, the lawyers involved will…
A Florida woman recently filed a Zantac lawsuit against current and past producers of the acid-reducing medication. She claims that after using the product, she suffered from serious injuries, and she seeks to hold the defendants liable. The case was filed in the U.S. District…
The first coronavirus case of “unknown” origin was recently confirmed in California. So far, authorities have been able to trace the origin of all coronavirus cases in the U.S. The patients had either traveled somewhere the virus was known to exist or had been exposed…
In October 2019, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) issued a voluntary recall of a single lot of its Baby Powder. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), when testing one sample of that Baby Powder, had discovered sub-trace levels of asbestos, so J&J implemented the recall out…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a recall of three lots of Mylan nizatidine capsules because tests indicated the presence of trace amounts of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). NDMA has been classified as a probable human carcinogen and is the same chemical that has recently…