XARELTO Rivaroxaban has killed 20,476 people according to US FAERS
Killer Drugs don't receive enough attention. This one was marketed as a Blood Thinner to treat Endotoxin induced diseases with a focus on Blood Clots.
I will update every 3 months as the latest data from US FAERS appears. When I launched this page in 2024 it showed 20,331 Dead, even more than Ozempic and Wegovy Semaglutide, Fluconazole or Tamiflu.1234
As of 31 March 2025 Deaths increased to 20,476 and perhaps the usage is slowing.
I am not a fan of Chlorinated aromatic compounds like Rivaroxaban with Chiral centres.5 It is commercialized as the pure S-enantiomer.6
My former friend (until she blocked me) and Science Journalist Dr Maryanne Demasi7 has been investigating. Unfortunately her BMJ article is behind a paywall.8
Haemorrhagic Pericarditis
Australian researchers reported Life-Threatening Haemorrhagic Pericarditis in 2014 from this drug.9
I will look in more detail at major causes of the 20,331 Deaths in FAERS and other reporting databases, but thought it best to share for anyone interested in Excess Mortality caused by Big Pharma. This is the 86th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 8 million prescriptions per year.10
Label Updates
Post-marketing FDA Label changes11 are revealing some of the horror.
They include warnings for:
Increased the risk of bleeding, including in any organ, and can cause serious or Fatal bleeding
Anticoagulant-related Nephropathy
Eosinophilic pneumonia
Splenic Rupture
I have an interest in this drug because it was claimed it was useful in treatment of Endotoxin induced diseases. More on that later.
Ozempic Semaglutide Deaths. Endotoxin Hits your Macrophages > Makes Exosomes > miR-155 Hits your Epithelial Progenitor Cells
TGA Australia produced a weird report on a Diabetes drug called Ozempic Semaglutide marketed in Australia by Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd. Semaglutide is injected or taken orally.Geoff Pain PhD is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Stop it or you will go Blind. Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy caused by Endotoxin in Semaglutide
Lots of money being made by self-jabbing products for Weight Loss and Diabetes. I have written about Deaths from Ozempic and Wegovy earlier.Geoff Pain PhD is a reader-supported publication. Hugs to paid subscribers. Now we see media coverage of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
Fluconazole in TWC Fear Kit will have disastrous consequences
Fluconazole was patented by Pfizer in 1981. It is also known as Diflucan.
Fear Campaign by Coulson TWC now pushes Deadly Tamiflu
I simply could not believe what I saw! Driving Fear of “The Next Pandemic” to sell a “Contagion Kit” was bad enough with lethal drugs when I reported previously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivaroxaban
Natália Olegário dos Santos, Nathalie Ribeiro Wingert, Martin Steppe. 2023. Quality by design approach for enantiomeric evaluation by RP-HPLC method of Rivaroxaban and its chiral impurity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0026265X23005295
Maryanne Demasi. 2024. Rivaroxaban: Lancet is under pressure to retract “unreliable” paper as investigation drags on. https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1646
Bo Xu and Andrew MacIsaac. 2014. Life-threatening haemorrhagic pericarditis associated with rivaroxaban. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167527314008316
https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Drugs/Rivaroxaban
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/safetylabelingchanges/index.cfm?event=searchdetail.page&DrugNameID=2729#
Rivaroxanan was recommended by my mothers doctor for her Atrial Fibrillation, but I resisted giving it to her, not just for the horrendous co-pay but because my mum had problems with her Bisphosphonates bone medication, which resulted in her inability to swallow, and had to be stopped. But her doctor kept on insisting on taking the blood thinner, which I relented to, and no sooner did she start on that, when she got disfiguring red and black blotches all over her body, and a resulting stroke, all of which I blame myself and have terrible guilt. What kind of systems puts profits above the value of human life?