FDA Adds Boxed Warning to Merck’s Asthma Drug Singulair About Suicide, Neuropsychiatric Side Effects
In 2008, the FDA issued a warning advising that it would investigate a possible risk of suicide associated with Merck & Co.’s asthma and allergy drug Singulair after there were many reports of increases in agitation, aggression, anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. Hallucinations also were documented for children and adolescents taking Singulair. When the drug’s […]
FDA Hasn’t Reviewed Some Food Additives in Decades
There’s a long list of chemicals and additives that are allowed in the U.S. but are banned in Europe and other places over health concerns. There are more than 10,000 chemicals and additives allowed in food in the U.S., often in small amounts. But many have not been evaluated by the FDA in decades. The […]
More Than Half of CDC Employees End Up Working for Pharma
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and Harvard University and published in the journal Health Affairs found that 54 percent of the staff members, who were employed at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and left the federal health agency during 2004-2020, went on to work for […]
Evidence of DNA Contamination in mRNA Shots Prompts Call for Halting Their Use
On Dec. 6, 2023, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, wrote a letter to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Robert Califf, MD, requesting that an investigation be launched into the alleged DNA contamination in Pfizer/BioNTech’s Comirnaty and Moderna/NIAID’s Spikevax mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) COVID shots. Not satisfied with the […]
Are Safety Reports from COVID mRNA Shots Due to Lack of FDA Ingredient Clarity?
Opinion | Over the past decades of my career, I have spent countless hours working to protect Americans by researching the safety of drugs. My education and career have taken me through about half a dozen universities, Big Pharma, and at the FDA under three presidential administrations. Drug safety considers why one individual may take […]
Recalls of U.S. Pharmaceutical Products Highest in Decade
Pharmaceutical product recalls in the United States are projected to reach the highest they have been in more than a decade, according to Sedgwick’s Quarterly Recall Index Report.1 Although the number of pharmaceutical product recalls in the U.S. decreased by 20.7 percent from the second quarter to the third quarter in 2023, the pharmaceutical industry […]
