Severe cases can lead to liver failure and death, according to the World Health Organization.
Hanneman was being treated in a local hospital when he "suffered liver failure, " it added.
The demonstrators said that the drug caused mental illness, depression, cancer and death from liver failure.
The same year its new Parkinson's disease drug was linked to three cases of fatal liver failure.
These include six cases of liver failure resulting in one death and four patients requiring liver transplants.
People who need a transplant because of acute liver failure are seriously ill.
Then in November she was admitted to UCLA hospital with acute liver failure caused by an overdose of acetaminophen.
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Mr Verma died of liver failure and abdominal problems at a hospital in the suburb of Gurgaon late on Monday.
Keep in mind that acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) can cause serious liver damage or liver failure if taken in doses higher than recommended.
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Currently pig livers are sometimes considered for transplant when a patient is in liver failure and there is no human organ available.
FDA. According to William Lee of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure.
Dr Gerlach said patients with chronic liver failure, caused by conditions such as hepatitis C, could also be helped by the bioreactor.
Both journalists and physicians, Wood notes, are more impressed by rare events, such as liver failure, that can be clearly associated with a drug.
Chakalis sued the elevator company and her landlords in 2005, long before her liver failure, but the case only went to trial in 2009.
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Hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease that can lead to liver failure and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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In 1999 Pfizer had to severely limit use of Trovan, a potent antibiotic aimed at many bugs, after it was linked to a dozen cases of liver failure.
I've seen a number of quite seriously ill people, but the one that sticks in my mind is a 29-year-old woman who came in with alcoholic liver failure.
"Eventually the incubation period elapses and people begin to manifest cirrhosis and advanced liver failure and the death rate will undoubtedly increase over the next few years, " he added.
AGI-1067 increased levels of two liver enzymes in eight patients, twice as many as in the placebo group, and there was one case of liver failure on the drug, compared with none for the placebo.
Inflammation and fibrosis - scarring - of the liver tissue, which affects about 10% of the UK population, can cause cirrhosis or liver failure and lead to cancer if diagnosis is delayed or if left untreated.
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Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
Susan Block and her father had the conversation that we all need to have when the chemotherapy stops working, when we start needing oxygen at home, when we face high-risk surgery, when the liver failure keeps progressing, when we become unable to dress ourselves.
Among them are neural cells to treat spinal cord injury and degenerative nervous system diseases, cardiomyocytes to treat heart disease, pancreatic islet cells to treat diabetes, dendritic cells for cancer therapy, chondrocytes for arthritis, osteoblasts to rebuild bone and hepatocytes for drug discovery and liver failure.
When a drug is likely to cause a severe side effect--say, an increased risk of heart attack, an allergic reaction that causes the skin to burn or liver failure--the standard practice is to warn patients and doctors about the product's labeling, and to send out warning letters to physicians who might prescribe the medicine.
If they survive, they may still develop hemorrhaging, liver damage, heart failure and coma up to two days later, and liver damage may appear up to six weeks after the poisoning.
The group said that orlistat, sold in prescription form as Xenical and over-the-counter as Alli, causes serious side effects such as liver injury and kidney failure.
They are currently being sold for cosmetic and reconstructive procedures and research as well as being evaluated for a range of applications, including heart attack, urinary incontinence, renal failure and liver disease.
Doctors may not recommend them for people with liver disease or congestive heart failure or for those taking certain medications.
If ingested, it causes nausea, vomiting and internal bleeding of the stomach and intestines, followed by failure of the liver, spleen and kidneys, and death by collapse of the circulatory system.
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