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Public Citizen calls on FDA to ban Tequin.

Publication: Pharma Marketletter
Publication Date: 08-MAY-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Public Citizen calls on FDA to ban Tequin.(Food and Drug Administration)(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
US consumer group Public Citizen has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the antibiotic Tequin (gatifloxacin) because it is linked to blood sugar abnormalities and has caused deaths and hospitalizations.

The drug, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb and approved for use in the USA in December 1999, has...

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