A study conducted at the University of Montreal discovered that the risk of miscarriage nearly doubled when women were taking the antidepressant Effexor, according to salient-news.com. This is a prescription medication aimed to treat major depression and anxiety. Other studies linked Effexor to a heightened risk of birth defects such as congenital heart defects and…
Seventy-two-year-old Shirley Boles has lost much of her lower jaw to a wasting disease called osteonecrosis. The disease is fairly uncommon, and in Boles’ case, its cause appears to be ironic. Boles, who lives in Fort Walton, Florida (FL), contends she developed osteonecrosis of the jaw, or ONJ, after starting to take Fosamax (alendronate sodium)…
GlaxoSmithKline announced on June 2, 2010, that it settled the first civil lawsuit brought by a diabetes sufferer who claimed he had a heart attack after taking Avandia (rosiglitazone). The drugmaker acknowledged that it still faced hundreds of lawsuits in U.S. federal courts despite widespread reports circulated in May that it had settled a group…
Twelve reports of serious kitchen fires started by the overheating of electric heating elements have prompted Maytag to recall approximately 1.7 million dishwasher sold in the United States from February 2006 through April 2010. The recall, announced through the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on June 3, 2010, affects dozens of models dishwashers bearing the…
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