Food and Drug Administration warned Friday that the pain relief patch Duragesic could cause drug overdoses and said it was looking into reports of 120 deaths and other serious side effects from overdoses in patients using the skin patches for pain control.
Duragesic contains fentanyl, a strong opioid narcotic painkiller. Duragesic can cause serious side effects, […]

In a lawsuit to be filed this week, a group of doctors and plaintiff Nancy Tufford allege that Merck & Company relied on animal tests that showed the pain relief drug Vioxx to be safe while setting aside evidence that Vioxx increases risk of cardiac events in human patients.
Founded 1985, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, […]