Allergy Drugs
The Top Three
Friday, May 30th, 2008
The three top searches on WorstPills.org are the asthma and allergy drug Singulair, the birth control pill Yasmin, and the herbal supplement glucosamine and chondroitin.
Singulair is listed as a “do not use” pill because it is less effective than other drugs and can cause blood vessel inflammation, liver disease, lupus and recurrences of ulcerative colitis.
Yasmin is [...]
The End of An Arranged Marriage
Monday, April 28th, 2008Schering-Plough and Merck have been making moves to bring their two respective allergy drugs — Claritin and and Singulair — together to form one super-drug, but it according to a recent Wall Street Journal article, it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. On April 25, the company said late the FDA had rejected [...]