FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Total Body Formula Recalled

  Jenny Albano | March 28, 2008 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  The FDA is telling consumers not to use Total Body Formula in Tropical Orange and Peach Nectar, or Total Body Mega Formula in the Orange/Tangerine flavor because the dietary supplement can cause adverse reactions such as hair loss, muscle cramps, diarrhea, joint pain and fatigue. The Total Body Formula products come in eight-ounce and 32-ounce plastic bottles and has been voluntarily recalled...

• Publix Settles Consumer Lawsuit over Lemon-Lime Soda with Benzene

  Courtney Mills | January 11, 2008 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Publix Supermarkets announced this week that the Lakeland-based grocery chain had settled a consumer lawsuit over problems relating to the content of the chemical benzene in the company's private label soda pop. Consumer groups had brought the suit, alleging that ingredients in Publix diet lemon-lime soda compound to form trace amounts of benzene once the beverage has heated during shipping. ...

• Merck Settles Vioxx Claims for $4.85 Billion

  K.C. Bouchillon | November 13, 2007 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Merck, the manufacturer of the heavily marketed arthritis/pain medication, Vioxx, has committed $4.85 billion toward settlement of claims that the product was defective and could and did cause death. Merck pulled the product from the market about three years ago when reports of Vioxx-related deaths surfaced. Since then, the company has been accused of putting marketing and profits ahead of...

• Winn-Dixie Pulls Mislabeled Ice Cream from Shelves

  Courtney Mills | October 09, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Winn-Dixie Grocery Stores has issued a recall on Prestige Chocolate Ice Cream because of possible mislabeled packaging. Some of the Prestige Ice Cream product shipped by Winn-Dixie may have actually been Chocolate Almond flavor ice cream instead of Chocolate.Persons who suffer from nut allergies or from sensitivity to almonds may risk life-threatening complications from eating the product, and...

• Avandia linked to increased heart attack risk

  K.C. Bouchillon | May 28, 2007 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Stop me if you've heard this one before: Giant drug company puts "miracle" drug on the market, markets it aggressively, and has worldwide sales in the billions of dollars. Then it turns out that the "miracle" comes with the ultimate side-effect: a significantly increased chance of dying from using the drug. First, it was Vioxx. Now, it's Avandia. Touted by its maker, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, as a...

• Zelnorm Recalled

  Christina Cole | March 31, 2007 2:55 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Novartis Pharmaceuticals has voluntarily agreed to the FDA's request that they discontinue the marketing and sales of Zelnorm (tegaserod maleate). The FDA's request was based on new information of an increased risk of serious cardiovascular adverse events, including heart attack, chest pain and stroke associated with the use of Zelnorm. Based on this information, the FDA decided that the overall...