Taxotere lawsuits are being filed around the country. In the last two months alone, new legal complaints have been filed by women in California and Oklahoma, while more than 180 cases continue to move through courts in Louisiana. The cases…
Image Credit: David Andrew Copeland With more than 15,000 Risperdal lawsuits out there, the legal team at pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson (J&J) has been busy addressing the drug's side effects this year. Chief among them is gynecomastia, a condition…
Zofran lawsuits continue apace, despite GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) best efforts to have them quashed. For several months now, GSK has made the claim that five lawsuits prompted by birth defects should be dismissed by Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Massachusetts.…
Most drugs are subject to varied press coverage over their lifetime. Blood-thinner Xarelto is no exception, as the latest research and legal challenges jockey for headline position as the year draws to a close. First, the good news... This week…
A new study by researchers in Canada suggests that the blood-thinning drug Pradaxa, when combined with other medications, can increase the chance of internal bleeding. Published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) last month, the study covered 45,991 patients…
In its second trial loss in less than 3 months, Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $55 million by a St. Louis jury to Gloria Ristesund, who had claimed that using the company’s talc-powder products led to the…
There have been tens of thousands of claims filed across the country against the manufacturers of the transvaginal mesh inserts. The lawsuits claim that complications could have been prevented had the manufacturers of these products properly researched the design or…
The power morcellator, a hysterectomy surgical device that is used during minimally invasive, laparoscopic procedures, has caused the spread of endometrial stromal sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, or other hidden cancers contained within the uterus. The result has been an increasing number of…
IVC Filter Complications From YouTube, “This medical animation demonstrates a possible complication for a patient implanted with an Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter. The filter, whose purpose is to catch and prevent fatal blood clots from reaching the heart, unexpectedly…
Oral anticoagulant Rivaroxaban, better known as Xarelto, has been at the center of numerous lawsuits due to a serious and dangerous side effect of uncontrollable bleeding. Xarelto is a blood thinner manufactured by Bayer and marketed by Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary…