Injury Spotlight: Pradaxa Bleeding Dangers

Update: Pradaxa tied for first place as the drug most linked to adverse event reports filed with the FDA in 2011, showing that it is among the highest risk of all drug treatments, reported QuarterWatch, a non-profit drug monitoring organization. The FDA received reports of 3,781 serious, harmful events in 2011, as well as 542 deaths in the U.S. alone. Pradaxa surpassed all other drugs for negative reports involving hemorrhage, acute renal (kidney) failure and stroke. The growing crisis involving the blood thinner Pradaxa can be described in one word – scary…