Weight loss, sleep disorder medicines on FDA’s review list for potential safety problems
By Crazy Legs on Jun 05, 2009 with Comments 7
U.S. regulators on Thursday listed two dozen drugs, including weight-loss medicines and sleep disorder pills, that it is at an early stage of reviewing for potential safety problems.
Many of the issues have been previously disclosed, but remain under review by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA said it was checking Pfizer Inc’s smoking cessation drug Chantix for possible risk of accidental injury, vision impairment and other issues, and Cephalon Inc’s sleep disorder drugs Nuvigil and Provigil for a potential of serious skin reactions.
Other drugs listed included orlistat, a weight-loss drug sold by Roche Inc as the prescription product Xenical and by GlaxoSmithKline Plc as the over-the-counter drug Alli. The FDA said it was continuing to evaluate liver toxicity reports for orlistat.
The FDA also said Pfizer’s overactive bladder drug Detrol was under investigation for reports of Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a serious skin reaction.
The FDA releases a quarterly list of safety probes as part of an effort to inform the public about early investigations of potential side effects that have been reported. The list released on Thursday covers October through December 2008.
The problems are potential safety issues and their appearance on the list “does not mean that FDA has identified a causal relationship” with the drug, the agency said.
Washington /Reuters
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