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The AP (7/7) reports, “The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it sent a warning letter to Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. alleging that Cornerstone’s promotional materials withheld information about the risks of its asthma drug Zyflo CR [zileuton].” The FDA “said the materials violated the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act” by using “outdated labeling” and suggesting “Zyflo CR is more effective than competing drugs like Singulair [montelukast].” In addition, the agency “said a Cornerstone visual aid did not include warnings about the most serious side effects or the most common ones.”
While I appreciate the desire to sell products, it is critically important for drug companies to inform customers and the public generally of the risks associated with the use of their drugs. It is often a matter of life and death. Safety and people should always trump profits.
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Mr. Zambri is a Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledges him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
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