A Nevada widow recently filed a new Onglyza/Kombiglyze XR lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of her deceased husband. She claims that after her husband used the type 2 diabetes drug (saxagliptin), he suffered from serious injuries…
Global online news organization The Guardian, along with other news organizations, is investigating the medical implants industry in the wake of thousands of reports showing adverse events linked with devices like hip implants and hernia mesh implants. A large number of these devices have been…
Back in May 2017, New Jersey consolidated all state-filed Stryker LFIT V40 hip implant lawsuits into one court in Bergen County for pretrial proceedings. This was just a month after federal cases were brought together in the District of Massachusetts. Both courts have been working…
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered all federally-filed Onglyza lawsuits consolidated into the Eastern District of Kentucky back in February 2018. Since then, District Judge Karen K. Caldwell has been overseeing the pre-trial proceedings. There are currently over 200 c
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced that Ford Motor Company was recalling about 1.3 million Ford Focus vehicles because of problems that could lead to a crash hazard. Ford will notify owners and offer a free repair to fix the issue. Ford…
Back in August 2018, German automaker BMW announced a recall of about 480,000 vehicles in Europe and Asian because of a problem that could cause a fire hazard. Now, the company has expanded that recall to include an additional 1.6 million vehicles worldwide because of…
The FDA recently announced the recall of CoaguChek XS PT test strips, which were used with INR test meters to monitor patient response to the blood thinning drug warfarin. More than 1.1 million packages of the strips have been pulled from the market because they…
A Texas man has brought new allegations against the makers of the type 2 diabetes drug Onglyza. In his Onglyza lawsuit, which was filed in the Southern District of New York, he claims that after he took the drug, he suffered serious injuries. He names…
A Tennessee woman recently filed a new Mirena lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She claims that after she was implanted with the birth control device, she suffered from serious injuries. She named as defendant manufacturer Bayer Healthcare…
The future of healthcare lies in technology, and today it’s all about networked medical devices. Today’s insulin pumps, pacemakers, ventilators, defibrillators, monitors, and more are all equipped with sensors, network capabilities, and Internet connectivity that allow data to be transferred via wir
A Texas man has filed a new class-action lawsuit against makers of the heart disease drug “valsartan.” He brings the claim on behalf of himself and hundreds of other patients who bought the drugs unaware that they could be contaminated with “N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA),” a chemical…
Four human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients recently filed new lawsuits against pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc. The patients all allegedly took the HIV drug called “tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF),” and then suffered serious injuries. They filed their lawsuits in the S
