I have posted a couple of post on how the drug companies hide facts and sell harmful Drugs
Johnson and Johnson’s Baby Powder Licence was revoked in India.
And Ranbaxy has been served with Five Notices in Five Years!
Now it is revealed that the drug by sold by Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit, has been sued in 85 Law suits for killing patients!
Story:
Presently, the drug manufacturer is defending itself in federal court from at least 85 different lawsuits from consumers claiming harm and from surviving family members claiming wrongful death, with heartrending anecdotes about the deceased. During the past decade, hundreds of Americans have died after unintentional overdoses of the country’s most popular pain reliever.
Nearly 500 Americans die yearly from acetaminophen overdoses, with 2,600 hospitalizations and some 56,000 emergency room visits, according to a 2004 study from the University of Texas. The drug is also implicated in nearly half of all cases of liver damage, researchers say. At the same time,the Tylenol brand makes more than $1 billion in revenue every year, aside from competitors.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refers to acetaminophen overdose as a “persistent, important public health problem,” regulatory oversight of the drug — safe for adults, children, and infants in the right doses — has been criticized by some as too lax, compared to other developed countries from Europe to Asia. U.S. regulators ruled in 2009 to require a label warning of “severe liver damage” after convening an expert panel in 1977 — 32 years later.
Related:
http://ramanisblog.in/2013/07/02/beware-of-johnson-johnson-ranbaxy-products/
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