The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cited Dr. Reddy’s plant in India for failing to conduct adequate testing and investigating to maintain the safety of their drug products. Such failures may be tied to the contamination of certain high blood pressure and heart…
On March 2, 2020, online pharmacy Valisure announced in a press release that it had detected N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)–a probable human carcinogen—in samples of prescription drug products containing metformin, a common type 2 diabetes treatment. Considering these results, the company filed a Cit
Thirteen plaintiffs collectively filed a new class-action Zantac lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Ohio. The plaintiffs seek to represent all other U.S. Zantac users who may now be at risk for developing cancer, based on the FDA’s warning that Zantac…
Many adults addicted to regular cigarettes turn to e-cigarettes in the hope that they may help them to quit smoking tobacco. Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Tobacco Research and Treatment Center showed that using e-cigarettes daily helped U.S. smokers to quit smoking regular c
After the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered the consolidation of all federally filed Zantac lawsuits into the Southern District of Florida, District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg scheduled the first status conference for March 20, 2020. At that time, the lawyers involved will
In March 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter to health care providers warning them of the increasing number of adverse events associated with surgical staplers and staples for internal use. The FDA analyzed the medical reports concerning these devices and…
In March 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter to healthcare providers warning them of an increasing number of adverse events associated with surgical staples. The agency analyzed reports received between January 1, 2011, and March 31, 2018, and found 41,000 individual…
A Florida woman recently filed a Zantac lawsuit against current and past producers of the acid-reducing medication. She claims that after using the product, she suffered from serious injuries, and she seeks to hold the defendants liable. The case was filed in the U.S. District…
The first coronavirus case of “unknown” origin was recently confirmed in California. So far, authorities have been able to trace the origin of all coronavirus cases in the U.S. The patients had either traveled somewhere the virus was known to exist or had been exposed…
In September 2019, a jury in New Brunswick, New Jersey, ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $37.2 million in a baby powder lawsuit. Four plaintiffs had filed the lawsuit, claiming J&J should be held liable for failing to warn that their talc-based products could be contaminated with cancer-causin
On Feb. 13, 2020, NuVasive Inc. issued a recall of the MAGEC System Model X rods. Used to treat children with early-onset scoliosis, they help brace the spine during growth to minimize the progression of the disease. However, the rods had a higher failure rate…
On October 2, 2019, the U.S Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered that all federally filed JUUL lawsuits be consolidated into one court in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for pre-trial proceedings. District Judge William H. Orrick was assigned…
