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Recent Drug Alerts and Recalls

Medtronic Recall
An international medical safety alert was issued Monday, October 15, 2007 regarding the Medtronic Sprint Fidelis ICD leads....read more.

Ortho Evra Alert
Recently, the Ortho Evra Transdermal Birth Control Patch has been linked to serious injury and even death. read more.

Nuvaring Alert
More than three dozen lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the makers of Nuvaring, claiming serious side effects associated with the product have caused substantial injury and even deathread more.

Product Recall lists include many consumer and household products.

Currently this web site lists these defective products:

Automotive products, defective car airbags, seat belts, defective brakes, child restraints, paper shredders, and lawn mower injuries.

As new product recalls happen we will list them in this site.

Breaking News: Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Southern Nevada Health District is advising patients who received injected anesthesia medication at the Endoscopy Center of Nevada, located at 700 Shadow Lane, of a risk for possible exposure to hepatitis C and other bloodborne pathogens.

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Since its introduction in 2003, ongoing questions have been raised regarding the safety of the Yamaha Rhino. With several fatalities, accidents, and serious injuries, the Rhino is considered among the most dangerous all-terrain vehicles (ATV) available to consumers.
Read more about Yamaha Rhino Rollovers

The FDA announced that all of these brands of heart medications are being recalled immediately, and classified as a Class I recall (the most dangerous and serious). Included in the list is Digitek, Bertek, UDL. The reason for the recall is that some of the pills are twice as thick as they should be, which creates the possibility of these pills containing twice the amount of medications active ingredient.

When patients unknowingly double their doses, it can lead to a condition known as digitalis toxicity, which is most dangerous for those patients with renal failure, otherwise known as kidney problems. Digitalis toxicity causes nausea, vomiting, dizziness, low blood pressure and bradycardia, which is an abnormally slow heart rate.

The FDA is cracking down on a manufacturer of hip implants and hip and joint replacement parts. The FDA recently sent Stryker Corporation a six-page letter detailing the problems with the company's manufacturing process and other issues that need to be corrected immediately. There have been several problematic reports have surfaced in response to Stryker's hip implants. If you've been injured from a Stryker Hip Implant contact us today.

Recently, the Ortho Evra Transdermal Birth Control Patch has been linked to serious injury and even death. Many serious side effects have been reported involving blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), and Pulmonary Embolism(PE). November 2, 2006 - Ortho-McNeil faces new lawsuits its Ortho Evra birth control patch caused 43 serious medical conditions and one death.
Read more about Ortho Erva Birth Control.

FDA notified healthcare professionals of the Agency's request for the addition of a boxed warning and new warnings about the risk of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) to the full prescribing information for all gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs). The new prescribing information FDA is requesting highlights and describes the risk for NSF following exposure to a GBCA in patients with acute or chronic severe renal insufficiency (glomerular filtration rate <30 mL/min/1.73 square meters) and patients with acute renal insufficiency of any severity due to the hepato-renal syndrome or in the peri-operative liver transplantation period.
Read more about Gadolinium.

NuvaRing is a birth control product, manufactured and distributed by Organon USA. More than three dozen lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the company, claiming serious side effects associated with the product have caused substantial injury and even death in some cases. Reported side effects include blood clot complications, most likely due to the high levels of estrogen and progestin that enter the system when the product is inserted.
Read more about Nuvaring.