The National Center for Health Statistics reports that among people 75 and older, the use of blood-thinning medications like Coumadin (warfarin) and Pradaxa (dabigatran) have dramatically increased from 3-4 percent to 10-11 percent. These medications help people avoid blood clots, which can lead to
According to a WBNG-TV news report, another woman has died allegedly because she was using a birth control patch. She was 21-year old Justine Sperbeck of New York, and on August 28, 2013, she suddenly passed out. Her family later learned she had suffered a…
Over the past couple of years, the da Vinci surgical system has been linked with serious injuries, including tears and burns to internal organs, vaginal cuff dehiscence, and cut ureters. Some patients have filed lawsuits in an attempt to recover damages from manufacturer Intuitive Surgical.…
Lawsuits with claims concerning the recalled DePuy ASR hip device now number in the thousands, with two trials having already taken place in California and Illinois. There is another DePuy hip implant that allegedly caused similar problems, however, and that is the DePuy Pinnacle. The…
After the first federal transvaginal mesh case ended in a $2 million verdict for plaintiff Donna Cisson, the MDL court was preparing for the second trial, scheduled to begin August 19, 2013. As planned, on that Monday, jurors were selected to determine if Bard was…
After receiving 20 reports of liquid fuel erupting and causing serious injuries, Big Lots is recalling about 30,000 tabletop torches, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The devices have a wick and burn liquid citronella fuel, and were made in India and sold…
In February 2013, a public health website reported that Takeda Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of the type 2 diabetes drug Actos, secretly surveyed doctors about whether they would prescribe a medication with a bladder cancer warning on it. According to evidence revealed in an Actos lawsuit, the…
In 2012, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), manufacturer of such medications as Paxil, Avandia, and Wellbutrin, paid what was at the time the highest settlement for criminal allegations paid by a pharmaceutical company. Accused of promoting drugs for off-label uses not approved by the FDA, the company doled…
In the third transvaginal mesh lawsuit across the county to go to trial, and the first in the MDL, plaintiff Donna Cisson has prevailed. After a California jury awarded $5.5 million to a woman who complained of complications from a C.R. Bard product, and a…
Women who have been injured by the Mirena intrauterine device are taking their complaints to court. Federal Mirena lawsuits were consolidated in the Southern District of New York in April 2013. Since then, the number of cases filed in that court has nearly doubled, totaling…
Since 2008, when the U.S. Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) established the NuvaRing MDL in the Eastern District of Missouri, more than 1,200 plaintiffs have filed claims against manufacturer Merck & Co. and their subsidiary, Organon USA Inc. Plaintiffs claim the companies failed to
On February 2013, a South Carolina woman filed a new Byetta lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. According to court documents, the plaintiff alleges that manufacturers Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly & Co. failed to provide adequate warnings as…