Posts tagged ui

• “The Heavy Weight Fight” – Extreme Dangers of Bodybuilding Supplements

  Alyssa DiEdwardo | August 03, 2009 8:08 AM | 7 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bodybuilding has been known as an Extreme Sport, because it is associated with extreme diets, rigorous weight lifting and rigorous competitions. Famous names such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou...

• E-Cigarette…Anyone Else?

  Armand Rossetti | July 24, 2009 10:00 AM | 40 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The FDA has alleged that one of several E-cigarette distributors in the United States, Smoking Everywhere, Inc. (SE), has marketed a product that is both an unapproved drug (nicotine) and an...

• Problems abound with Eli Lilly’s Strattera

  Armand Rossetti | January 30, 2009 11:27 AM | 11 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Strattera is the first non-stimulant drug, which the FDA has approved for use in treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and at first glance, that might have been a good...

• The FDA’s Approval of ProteGen Baffles the Mind

  Armand Rossetti | December 19, 2008 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  In 1996, the FDA approved Boston Scientific Corporation’s ProteGen mesh for use in correcting stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Physical changes as a result of pregnancy, childbirth and...

• Fluoroquinolones like Levaquin are just Plain Toxic

  Armand Rossetti | December 09, 2008 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Those who are familiar with pain pump cases know that bupivacaine is chondrotoxic. Joint cartilage is composed of cells called chondrocytes, and most of the anesthetic “caines” cause...

• Circulating Levaquin leaves the bloodstream, deposits in Achilles’ tendons, and alters tendon cells

  Armand Rossetti | December 02, 2008 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Both short and long term treatment with fluoroquinolone antibiotics may cause tendon matrix alteration that can lead to tendinopathy with subsequent rupture. Tendinopathy is newer all-inclusive...

• CEO Don Earhart updates Wall Street about I-Flow’s On-Q Pain Pump chondrolysis lawsuits

  Armand Rossetti | November 21, 2008 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On October 12, 2007, Biomedical Innovation headlined, “I-Flow faces lawsuits, defends its pain pump.” In that story, Orlando Rodriguez, vice President of marketing at I-Flow indicated...

• Chantix: Why the Rush?

  Armand Rossetti | November 16, 2008 3:43 PM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In May 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s Chantix (varenicline tartrate), a smoking cessation drug. Reportedly under priority review, the FDA had cut the usual...

• Connecting the dots: Reasons why fluoroquinolones such as Levaquin destroy connective tissue matrices found in tendons all over the body

  Armand Rossetti | November 14, 2008 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Sometimes searching for information has to occur outside the box. For example, who would have thought that a scholarly paper about eye drops would contain information central to understanding how...

• The Floxacin Gang: Cipro, Levaquin, Factive, Cinobac, Tequin, Enoxacin, Grepafloxacin, Sparfloxacin, Temafloxacin, and Trovan

  Armand Rossetti | November 13, 2008 5:08 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Please watch the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Research Foundation’s video entitled A Prescription for Disaster. Two drugs, Cipro and Levaquin, belonging to the fluoroquinolone (Floxacin)...