Roche, for its part, is facing generic competition on Accutane, one of its best-selling acne drugs.

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Utah resident Kamie Kendall began taking the anti-acne drug Accutane in 1997, as a 13-year-old.

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After her grandmother called her parents about the TV ad, Kendall testified, she thought about suing Accutane manufacturer Roche Holdings.

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Severe acne sometimes does not respond to any treatment except tretinoin (Accutane).

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"There's a real therapeutic need for a treatment that can be used to treat moderate-to-severe acne that doesn't involve Accutane, " Dr. Pariser says.

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Common acne treatments include topical creams and oral medications, such as antibiotics and isotretinoin, known in the U.S. by its brand name Accutane.

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In another Brazilian case a doctor is suing Ranbaxy because she says its version of Roche's acne medicine Accutane caused her son to have a stroke.

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In this case, the court ruled that warnings linking the anti-acne drug Accutane with severe bowel conditions were buried in 3, 000 words of other verbiage about other possible side effects.

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Even the incredibly severe warnings put on the label of the acne drug Accutane by Roche (otc: RHHBY - news - people ) have not entirely prevented that drug from causing birth defects.

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Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) arthritis pill Bextra, Abbott Laboratories ' (nyse: ABT - news - people ) weight loss pill, Meridia, GlaxoSmithKline 's (nyse: GSK - news - people ) asthma drug, Serevent and Roche 's acne pill, Accutane all made the list.

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