Public Citizen Petitions the FDA to Include a Black Box Warning on Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics (HRG Publication #1781) August 29, 2006

If you wish to add your comments in support of Public Citizens Petition follow this link and then click on "Submit Comment" at the bottom of the comment window. After filing in your name in the registration form you are then allowed to add your specific comments.  Simply follow the prompts. FDA Docket Comments

The Office of Attorney General, State of Illinois's petition to the FDA filed May 18, 2005, seeking the same "Black Box" warnings as Public Citizen  PDF File (Adobe Reader Required)

The FDA's response to the Attorney General, State of Illinois's Petition PDF File (Adobe Reader Required)

Public Citizen's Petition filed 10 years ago dealing with this same issue: Petition to Require a Warning on All Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics (HRG Publication #1399) August 1, 1996

Sign the Petition to the United States Congress

Please write to your Attorney General.  We are asking all patients to write to their Attorney General and to express their concern regarding the total failure of the FDA to protect them from these horrendous side effects.  Clicking on this link will provide you with the contact information for every Attorney General in the United States.

Click here to read the letter that had been sent to every Attorney General in the United States on September 27, 2006, regarding the Petitions of Public Citizen and the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, asking for their support of these petitions.

Read their response to this letter by clicking here.

Petition to the FDA to Immediately Ban the Antibiotic Gatifloxacin (Tequin) (HRG Publication #1768)

The respective pharmaceutical manufacturers and the FDA have failed to adequately warn the American public as well as the treating physician of the inherent risks associated with the use of this class of antibiotics.  Please sign the petition to formally request that Congress investigate as why this has been allowed to continue for over forty years.
Click here to view the petition.

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