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• Thankful for Good Instincts with Lung Cancer

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  I read a news release this last week about an article published in the International Journal of Cancer about survival improvement in people with stage IV lung cancer and bone metastases who are treated with Zometa. It was a small study and the patients were put on the Zometa for bone pain. Turns out it didn’t ...
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• FDA Should Make Drug Efficacy And Safety Information More Accessible To Patients

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  Package Inserts Prepared By Drug Companies Which Exagerrate Benefits And Downplay Risks Need To Be Addressed (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) In the October 21, 2009 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) there is a Perspective piece, “Lost in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Correction: FDA drug label story

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  WASHINGTON AP) (AP) -- In an Oct. 21 story about drug labels, The Associated Press erroneously described the Novartis drug Zometa. Zometa was approved in 2001 to treat excessive calcium levels, not to treat a form of osteoporosis in cancer patients. Also, the drug was approved only in a 4 milligram dose, not in both 4 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zometa Jaw Necrosis Lawsuit Results in $3.2M Verdict

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 552
  A Montana jury has awarded $3.2 million to a woman who suffered debilitating jaw necrosis from Zometa , a bone strengthening drug prescribed to many cancer patients. The Zometa lawsuit was the first of about 550 cases to go to trial against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. All of the claims involve similar ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lost in Transmission — FDA Drug Information That Never Reaches Clinicians

  
  PharmaGossip — Authority: 516
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  2 weeks ago

• Will Novartis Be Found Guilty Of Denying Zometa Risks?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 589
  A jury will continue deliberating today a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges Novartis was negligent when it failed to disclose health risks associated with its Zometa bone-strengthening drug. Peggy Stevens has lymphoma and developed serious dental and jaw-related problems after taking Zometa for several years. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zometa Lawsuit Over Jaw Necrosis Heading to Jury

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 552
  A Montana jury is expected to hear closing arguments today in the first Zometa lawsuit to go to trial, involving allegations that the bone strengthening cancer drug caused a woman to develop debilitating jaw problems. The case was brought by Peggy Stevens against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., alleging that ...
  3 weeks ago

• First Zometa-ONJ Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Novartis Goes To Jury This Week

  
  Drug Injury Watch — Authority: 112
  Montana Womans Case Is First To Trial; More Than 500 Other Jaw Side Effect Cases Filed In Federal MDL And New Jersey Courts (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) Let us set the stage, medically, by starting with an article, "Osteoporosis treatments and adverse events" , which ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trial begins in lawsuit against maker of Zometa

  
  Montana News by the People for the People — Authority: 126
  MISSOULA, Mont. — A trial is under way in a Montana womans lawsuit against Swiss drug maker Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., and attorneys say the verdict could have national significance. Peggy L. Stevens sued Novartis last year, contending professional negligence for failing to disclose health risks associated ...
  3 weeks ago

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