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Below is an A to Z descriptions of the major drugs or drug types that have an alert out about them. Be sure to check any new prescriptions you may have against this list. Each of the drugs or types of medications listed below has a link to more detailed information with respects to its alert.
Accutane
Accutane is intended to treat the most severe form of acne that has been unresponsive to any other type of acne treatment.
Androstenedione
Androstenedione is known as andro, a dietary supplement that is a naturally occurring element in the body but not a part of the diet.
Antifungal
Antifungal medications are used to treat fungal infections, which are some of the most difficult infections to get rid of. There are several different types of anti-fungal therapies, including topical, oral, or intravenous.
Ativan
Ativan is a benzodiazepine medication used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
Avandia
Avandia is a diabetes drug in the same class as Rezulin, an FDA recalled drug in March 2000.
Baycol
Bayer AG, Baycol manufacturer, has had thousands of lawsuits filed against them in U.S. courts after a high number of Baycol patients suffered rhabdomyolysis.
Cisapride
Celebrex is a prescription drug used for arthritis pain and joint pain relief.
Colchicine
Colchicine is intended to treat acute gout by suppressing inflammation.
Cyclosporine
Cyclosporine is an immunosuppressive agent that is used to reduce the body's natural immunity in patients receiving organs, as well as treating severe cases of psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
DES
DES is a synthetic estrogen known as diethylstilbestrol and was used to prevent miscarriages.
Dexamethasone
Dexamethasone is an anti-inflammatory, steroid medicine that is used to treat organ system inflammation.
Drotecogin
Drotrecogin was developed to treat severe cases of sepsis, a life-threatening infection in the blood.
Duract
Duract is an NSAID that was approved in July 1997 for short-term management of acute pain and was never approved for longer-term use.
Enbrel
Enbrel was on the market for just five months with reports of thirty patients treated with Enbrel developing serious infections including sepsis.
Ephedra
Ephedra is a stimulant found in many diet pills and sports drinks that has been linked to a high number of serious adverse effects but has not been able to be regulated.
Fen Phen
On September 15, 1997, fen phen was recalled when new evidence from doctors evaluating fen phen patients with echocardiograms found that 30% of the patients had abnormal results to the weight loss drug.
Fen Phen
On September 15, 1997, fen phen was recalled when new evidence from doctors evaluating fen phen patients with echocardiograms found that 30% of the patients had abnormal results to the weight loss drug.
Herceptin
Herceptin is a drug that was FDA approved in 1998 as a monoclonal antibody bioengineered from part of a mouse antibody altered to closely resemble a human antibody.
Hismanal
Hismanal was FDA approved in 1988 as an antihistamine for allergy and hay fever symptom relief.
Lamisil
Lamisil is a tablet medication for the treatment of onychomycosis, or nail fungus.
Mellaril
Mellaril is indicated for the management of schizophrenic patients that have not responded to other antipsychotic drugs.
Norplant
Norplant has first approved in 1990 as an implantable contraceptive drug.
Neurontin
When Neurontin was first FDA approved, the drug was intended as an add-on epilepsy treatment, however off label use became a regular, widespread practice.
Neurontin
When Neurontin was first FDA approved, the drug was intended as an add-on epilepsy treatment, however off label use became a regular, widespread practice.
Posicor
Roche Laboratories manufactured Posicor that was intended as a hypertension and chronic stable angina pectoris medication.
Procardia
Procardia is intended to treat high blood pressure.
Propulsid
Propulsid was a heartburn medicine approved in 1993 only for severe nighttime heartburn experienced by adult patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Prozac
Prozac is an antidepressant medication that entered the market in 1988 and has been linked to serious withdrawal symptoms that has caused large controversy and legal battles.
Ramipril
Ramipril is a medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure by decreasing certain chemicals so that blood vessels become tightened to allow smoother blood flow.
Raxar
Raxar oral fluoroquinolone antibiotic was prescribed to an estimated 2.65 million patients from when Raxar was first marketed in August 1997 until the October 1997 recall.
Rezulin
Rezulin diabetes drug was recalled on March 21, 2000 after a controversial FDA approval and stay on the U.S. market.
Ritalin
Ritalin is often prescribed to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Every year there are around 9 million prescriptions of Ritalin filled.
RU-486
RU-486 has been a controversial abortion drug due to moral stand points as well as the dangerous side effects and complications linked to it.
Seldane
Seldane was available in 1985 as the first prescription antihistamine to relieve the symptoms of allergic rhinitis without causing drowsiness.
Serentil
Serentil is indicated for the management of schizophrenic patients that fail to adequately respond to treatment with other antipsychotic drugs.
Simulect
Simulect is an immunosuppressant drug that is used to fight the body's rejection of transplanted kidneys.
Tasmar
Tasmar is used with a Parkinson medication to treat Parkinson's disease.
Thalidomide
Thalidomide first appeared in the late 1950s in Europe as a sleeping pill and to treat morning sickness during pregnancies.
Valium
Valium is a medication for the treatment of anxiety and alcohol withdrawal.
Vanceril
Vanceril asthma drug has had certain inhalers recalled several times for defective inhalers.
Viagra
Viagra impotence pill was FDA approved in March 1998 as the first oral pill to treat the male dysfunction affecting millions of men in the U.S.
Videx
Videx is a medication used to treat infections caused by HIV.
Videx
Videx is a medication used to treat infections caused by HIV.
Vioxx
Vioxx was FDA approved as a pain relief drug for arthritis and experienced immediate success, distributed to more than 30,000 pharmacies just eleven days after approval.
Viramune
Viramune is the name of a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor with activity against HIV -1.
Xeloda
Xeloda is an oral treatment for advanced breast cancer patients. When the FDA approved Xeloda it allowed women more options for living with advanced breast cancer.
Zerit
The FDA and Bristol Myers issued a warning to health care professionals and patients using the combination of Zerit and Videx of the increased risk of fatal lactic acidosis that has occurred with pregnant women.
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