Topic: Public Citizen Foundation
AP News | 2010-01-21 22:25:11
<div id="subtitle">FDA says weight loss pill increases heart attack risks in patients with history of disease</div><div><p>Abbott Laboratories on Thursday stopped marketing a weight loss pill in Europe after regulators there said the drug increases the risk of heart attack and stroke when used by heart disease ...
AP News | 2010-01-20 14:17:34
<div id="subtitle">Public Citizen questions benefit of pain pill for fibromyalgia, points to blood pressure risks</div><div><p>A consumer advocacy group is asking government regulators to recall a drug they approved last year for a little-understood pain ailment, saying the pill can lead to dangerously high blood pressure.< ...
consumeraffairs.com | 2010-01-05 07:05:17
<div id="subtitle">Approval of coupon settlement overturned</div><div><p>An Ohio appeals court has thrown out a nationwide class-action settlement involving Carfax, ruling that a trial judge should not have approved the settlement without requiring notice to all of the affected consumers and without considering information about whether the coupons ...
AP Features | 2009-12-03 21:39:51
<div><p>A consumer advocacy group is petitioning the government to ban the weight loss pill Meridia because a recent study suggests it increases risk of heart attack, stroke and death.</p><p>A letter Thursday from Public Citizen calls on the Food and Drug Administration to pull Abbott Laboratories' drug from ...
