Blog Posts in June, 2016

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  • Benicar Website Omits Sprue-like Enteropathy
    Benicar Website Omits Sprue-like Enteropathy

    While credit is due to Benicar manufacturer, Daiichi Sankyo, for listing the potential side effects of Benicar on the main Benicar landing page—saving the consumer from having to go from one link to ...

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  • Foot and Leg Amputation & Invokana
    Foot and Leg Amputation & Invokana

    A new safety alert sent out by the FDA associates the drugs Invokana and Invokamet (canagliflozin) with nearly twice the risk of leg and foot amputations compared with those taking a placebo. These ...

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  • Voided Blood Tests
    Voided Blood Tests

    Theranos, Inc., through its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, has made the decision to void two entire years’ worth of results from hundreds of its “Edison” blood-testing machines—those from 2014 and 2015. ...

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  • Understanding the Dangers of Benicar
    Understanding the Dangers of Benicar

    There is currently an epidemic of high blood pressure in the United States. Almost one out of every three adults across the nation has the disease, however only about half of those have it under ...

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  • PPI Drugs and Chronic Kidney Disease
    PPI Drugs and Chronic Kidney Disease

    As the potential dangers of proton pump inhibitor drugs—such as Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium—continue to come to the light, the most recent study has shown an increased risk of chronic kidney disease ...

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  • Xarelto Lawsuits Consolidated into MDL 2592
    Xarelto Lawsuits Consolidated into MDL 2592

    A hearing held on December 4, 2015 resulted in the Judicial Panel concluding a multi-district litigation was in order to more efficiently take care of the more than 2,800 Xarelto cases that have been ...

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