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Ambien users wake up, smell the lawsuitsPOSTED: Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 1:00 amBY: dmc-admin Janet Makinen, a Florida housewife, was prescribed Ambien in 1998 for insomnia. About two weeks later, she began walking in her sleep to her kitchen and devouring food. It didn’t matter what kind of food, either. Makinen, 55, …
Wisconsin Law Journal : Lask’s Ambien Suit Wants FDA WarningsRead More
March 31, 2006 Friday Home Edition SECTION: BUSINESS; Business Desk; Part C; Pg. 6 Sleep Pill War Means Late Nights for Ad Makers; Sanofi hopes to blunt the effect of adverse news on its Ambien. Pfizer’s expected entry is likely to intensify the jockeying for share. BYLINE: From the Associated Press DATELINE: NEW YORK The …
Los Angeles Times : Lask’s Ambien Class Action Makes Drug Dangers PublicRead More
Perchance To … Eat? Newsweekby: Anne Underwood Mar 26, 2006 7:00 PM EST The makers of America’s most popular sleep drug may have been tossing and turning a bit more recently. Fourteen years after the Food and Drug Administration approved Sanofi-Aventis’s Ambien, the sleep aid has come under scrutiny amid reports of users …
CNN PAULA ZAHN NOW Popular Sleeping Pill May Cause Problems Aired March 17, 2006 – 20:00 ET In tonight’s “Vital Signs,” we dig deeper into an amazing story we reported on earlier this week. I am going to introduce you now to a woman who has quite a story of her own to tell. …
WEB EXCLUSIVEBy Jennifer Barrett and Anne UnderwoodNewsweekUpdated: 5:56 p.m. ET March 16, 2006 March 16, 2006 – Lori Cox didn’t remember ordering the ring she had just got in the mail. But her phone records said otherwise, showing she’d made a middle-of-the-night call to a home-shopping channel. Even worse, she also discovered she’d made cell-phone …
Suit Blames Ambien for Eating Binges, Sleepwalkingby Allison Aubrey March 15, 2006 Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturer of the sleeping pill Ambien say the drug caused them to unknowingly binge eat and sleepwalk. Some doctors say not following prescription instructions might have caused the unusual side effects. Copyright © 2006 National Public …
NPR : Lask’s Ambien Class Action Discovers Sleep Walking DangersRead More
To Sleep, Perchance to . . . Walk By Martin F. Downs Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, March 14, 2006 There is no reliable estimate of how many Ambien users sleepwalk, and no one knows who might be at risk. The prescribing information for Ambien lists somnambulism as a …
