Overuse of antibiotics is sending thousands of people to the emergency room every year, according to a newly released Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study. Around 78 percent of the adverse events in the study were allergic reactions, ranging from rash to a serious reaction known as anaphylaxis, and the remaining 22 percent were caused by errors and overdoses.
While penicillin and related antibiotics such as amoxicillin accounted …
John Angell, who was working on Capitol Hill as staff director for Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) when the 2001 anthrax attacks occurred, recently talked about his Cipro injuries with The Wall Street Journal.
Like hundreds of other people, Angell took a course of Cipro to prevent infection. A few days later, he felt pain in both his Achilles tendons. A week afte …
Cipro’s association with tendon ruptures was recognized long before the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) asked for a black box warning on the risk. In fact, several victims of the 2001 anthrax attack filed lawsuits claiming Cipro caused a variety of ills, including tendon damage. What’s more, a prominent consumer group first warned about the tendon risk associated with drugs in the same class as Cipro well over 10 years ago.
In 2002, four US postal workers from New Jersey – all of whom were exposed …
Just days after federal regulators in the US announced that Cipro and similar antibiotics would bear black box warnings about their risk of tendon damage, Health Canada is asking manufacturers to add the same type of warning to the drugs sold in that country.
Last Tuesday, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) asked the makers of fluoroquinolone antibiotics to add the agency’s strictest safety warning to the product labels about their link to tendon damage. The FDA said that patients …
Cipro and other similar antibiotics will finally bear black box warnings about their association for tendon damage. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) said last week it decision to ask for the black boxes was made because reports of tendonitis and tendon rupture associated with Cipro use are on the rise.
According to the FDA, tendon ruptures …
In January, the group Public Citizen sued the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in an attempt to force the agency to require tougher warnings on Cipro and similar antibiotics regarding their association with tendon ruptures. Sixteen months prior, the group had petitioned the agency to include a black box warning on the drugs, but the FDA never responded.
From November 1997 through December …
Cipro was the antibiotic of choice in 2001 during that year’s notorious anthrax attacks.Cipro was given to both people who actually contracted anthrax, and those whose possible exposure put them at risk. Unfortunately, some people who took the drug complained of its lingering side effects long after the anthrax danger had passed.
A 2002 article in the Palm Beach Pos …
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