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If you are on any prescribed, use over-the-counter medicines or know some one who does you would be wise to search for that product here and/or other drug watch list. It is far better to know if something you are taking is harmful to you and what you can do about it.

Accutane - Accutane is intended to treat the most severe form of acne that has been unresponsive to any other type of acne treatment.

Androstenedione - Androstenedione is known as andro, a dietary supplement that is a naturally occurring element in the body but not a part of the diet.

Antifungal - Antifungal medications are used to treat fungal infections, which are some of the most difficult infections to get rid of. There are several different types of anti-fungal therapies, including topical, oral, or intravenous.

Ativan - Ativan is a benzodiazepine medication used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.

Avandia - Avandia is a diabetes drug in the same class as Rezulin, an FDA recalled drug in March 2000.

Baycol - Bayer AG, Baycol manufacturer, has had thousands of lawsuits filed against them in U.S. courts after a high number of Baycol patients suffered rhabdomyolysis.

Cisapride - Celebrex is a prescription drug used for arthritis pain and joint pain relief.

Colchicine - Colchicine is intended to treat acute gout by suppressing inflammation.

Cyclosporine - Cyclosporine is an immunosuppressive agent that is used to reduce the body's natural immunity in patients receiving organs, as well as treating severe cases of psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.

DES - DES is a synthetic estrogen known as diethylstilbestrol and was used to prevent miscarriages.

Dexamethasone - Dexamethasone is an anti-inflammatory, steroid medicine that is used to treat organ system inflammation.

Drotecogin - Drotrecogin was developed to treat severe cases of sepsis, a life-threatening infection in the blood.

Duract - Duract is an NSAID that was approved in July 1997 for short-term management of acute pain and was never approved for longer-term use.

Enbrel - Enbrel was on the market for just five months with reports of thirty patients treated with Enbrel developing serious infections including sepsis.

Ephedra - Ephedra is a stimulant found in many diet pills and sports drinks that has been linked to a high number of serious adverse effects but has not been able to be regulated.

Fen Phen - On September 15, 1997, fen phen was recalled when new evidence from doctors evaluating fen phen patients with echocardiograms found that 30% of the patients had abnormal results to the weight loss drug.

Fen Phen - On September 15, 1997, fen phen was recalled when new evidence from doctors evaluating fen phen patients with echocardiograms found that 30% of the patients had abnormal results to the weight loss drug.

Herceptin - Herceptin is a drug that was FDA approved in 1998 as a monoclonal antibody bioengineered from part of a mouse antibody altered to closely resemble a human antibody.

Hismanal - Hismanal was FDA approved in 1988 as an antihistamine for allergy and hay fever symptom relief.

Lamisil - Lamisil is a tablet medication for the treatment of onychomycosis, or nail fungus.

Mellaril - Mellaril is indicated for the management of schizophrenic patients that have not responded to other antipsychotic drugs.

Norplant - Norplant has first approved in 1990 as an implantable contraceptive drug.

Neurontin - When Neurontin was first FDA approved, the drug was intended as an add-on epilepsy treatment, however off label use became a regular, widespread practice.

Neurontin - When Neurontin was first FDA approved, the drug was intended as an add-on epilepsy treatment, however off label use became a regular, widespread practice.

Posicor - Roche Laboratories manufactured Posicor that was intended as a hypertension and chronic stable angina pectoris medication.

Procardia - Procardia is intended to treat high blood pressure.

Propulsid - Propulsid was a heartburn medicine approved in 1993 only for severe nighttime heartburn experienced by adult patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Prozac - Prozac is an antidepressant medication that entered the market in 1988 and has been linked to serious withdrawal symptoms that has caused large controversy and legal battles.

Ramipril - Ramipril is a medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure by decreasing certain chemicals so that blood vessels become tightened to allow smoother blood flow.

Raxar - Raxar oral fluoroquinolone antibiotic was prescribed to an estimated 2.65 million patients from when Raxar was first marketed in August 1997 until the October 1997 recall.

Rezulin - Rezulin diabetes drug was recalled on March 21, 2000 after a controversial FDA approval and stay on the U.S. market.

Ritalin - Ritalin is often prescribed to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Every year there are around 9 million prescriptions of Ritalin filled.

RU-486 - RU-486 has been a controversial abortion drug due to moral stand points as well as the dangerous side effects and complications linked to it.

Seldane - Seldane was available in 1985 as the first prescription antihistamine to relieve the symptoms of allergic rhinitis without causing drowsiness.

Serentil - Serentil is indicated for the management of schizophrenic patients that fail to adequately respond to treatment with other antipsychotic drugs.

Simulect - Simulect is an immunosuppressant drug that is used to fight the body's rejection of transplanted kidneys.

Tasmar - Tasmar is used with a Parkinson medication to treat Parkinson's disease.

Thalidomide - Thalidomide first appeared in the late 1950s in Europe as a sleeping pill and to treat morning sickness during pregnancies.

Valium - Valium is a medication for the treatment of anxiety and alcohol withdrawal.

Vanceril - Vanceril asthma drug has had certain inhalers recalled several times for defective inhalers.

Viagra - Viagra impotence pill was FDA approved in March 1998 as the first oral pill to treat the male dysfunction affecting millions of men in the U.S.

Videx - Videx is a medication used to treat infections caused by HIV.

Videx - Videx is a medication used to treat infections caused by HIV.

Vioxx - Vioxx was FDA approved as a pain relief drug for arthritis and experienced immediate success, distributed to more than 30,000 pharmacies just eleven days after approval.

Viramune - Viramune is the name of a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor with activity against HIV -1.

Xeloda - Xeloda is an oral treatment for advanced breast cancer patients. When the FDA approved Xeloda it allowed women more options for living with advanced breast cancer.

Zerit - The FDA and Bristol Myers issued a warning to health care professionals and patients using the combination of Zerit and Videx of the increased risk of fatal lactic acidosis that has occurred with pregnant women.