The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will ask outside experts on Thursday about Yaz and several other birth control pills that contain a man-made hormone called drospirenone, which was heavily marketed as carrying fewer side effects...
Pfizer Wins a Review of Punitive Damage Awards in Prempro Case
World’s largest drug maker, Pfizer, persuaded a Pennsylvania appeals court to review an $8.6 million punitive damages award to a woman who blamed her breast cancer on Pfizer’s menopause drugs.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to hear...
FDA Investigates Serious Bleeding Events with Pradaxa
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on December 7th that it will be evaluating post-marketing reports of serious bleeding events in patients taking Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim (dabigatran).
Pradaxa is an anticoagulant (blood...