The number of Ortho Evra lawsuits continues to rise as more and more women argue they suffered blood clot injuries after using the birth control patch. To date, Ortho Evra’s manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson… Read more… Mail this post Technorati Tags: Ortho Evra Lawsuits
Mail this post
Read More...
Last month, a Philadelphia jury awarded $2.5 million to a woman whose son was born with severe heart defects after she had taken the antidepressant drug Paxil during pregnancy, the Associated Press reports. Michelle David was prescribed Paxil, made by GlaxoSmithKline, during her pregnancy. Two months after her son was born, he was diagnosed with [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
Construction workers hanging Chinese drywall complained of the off-putting stench to home developers, according to a Broward-Palm Beach New Times online report. According to journalist Eric Barton, some construction workers refused to work with the Chinese drywall, afraid that the smell meant the material was rotten. Barton also writes that some contractors told workers to [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
Patients over the age of 65 who are taking Cipro are at risk for tendon tears, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned. Ciproflaxin is a powerful antibiotic that is used to treat bacterial infections of the bladder, kidney, prostate gland, cervix, stomach, intestine, lung, sinus, bone, and skin and as a preventive measure [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
Three patients who were prescribed Levaquin recently filed suit against the maker of the antibiotic in a New Jersey state court, The Wall Street Journal reports. The lawsuits claim that Johnson & Johnson and its Ortho McNeil unit touted Levaquin as a safe treatment for bacterial infections even though the companies allegedly knew that it [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
On April 8, 2009, Genentech, the manufacturer of the psoriasis drug Raptiva (efalizumab), announced that it had begun a withdrawal of Raptiva from the U.S. market because of its link to patients developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a neurologic disease caused by a virus that affects the central nervous system. PML is associated with long-term [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
These personal injury lawyers in Los Angeles, California are your best lawyers to win personal injury claims! Product Liability. We hear this term every day, but what exactly does it mean? From the lead paint discovered poisoning our children’s toys, to the massive judgments Personal Injury Attorneys are winning against Big Tobacco companies for causing [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
A Florida child psychiatrist who was paid by AstraZeneca to talk to other physicians about the antipsychotic drug Seroquel is also the chair of an influential FDA committee, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Dr. Jorge Armenteros was not only AstraZeneca’s paid speaker, he is also the chair and voting member of the FDA advisory committee that [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
This week federal health officials will weigh the risks of approving the antipsychotic drug Seroquel for the treatment of depression – even though sudden heart death is one of Seroquel’s side effects. AstraZeneca, the London-based company that makes the drug, wants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve Seroquel for depression and anxiety disorder [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
Hundreds of deaths last year were linked to tainted batches of heparin. Now, new standards for testing the blood thinner are scheduled to go into effect, Bloomberg News reports. The nonprofit health group, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, which is responsible for setting standards for the quality, purity, strength and consistency of medicines, unveiled a plan that [...]
Mail this post
Read More...
Product Liability Lawyer News