Cal Warriner of the Mass Torts Unit of Searcy Denney will be speaking this week at the Plaintiff Forum on Pharmaceutical Litigation: Transvaginal Mesh, Actos and Orthopedic Devices. The conference will be held on Friday of this week (October 5, 2012) at Le Méridien in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cal will be […]
Author: Brenda Fulmer
With all of the bad news coming out about the dangers of defective synthetic transvaginal mesh made of polypropylene used to treat prolapse and incontinence as well as the thousands of lawsuits waiting to be heard in state and federal courts filed by severely injured women looking to regain their […]
There is no doubt that we at Searcy Denney are seeing more and more cases of bone fractures that are occurring among women taking bisphosphonates to treat osteoporosis and osteopenia. But there may be even more cases out there that are going unreported. The authors of this article, William Ward […]
Women are increasingly deciding that their transvaginal mesh implant is causing more complications than it cured and are opting to have it removed, but a new report says the removal procedure may cause a host of injuries to the uterus. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic and Spectrum Health Medical Group […]
Last January 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to get tough on transvaginal mesh manufacturers. After noting a five-fold increase in complications among women implanted with the polypropylene mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the FDA asked the mesh makers to […]
Too often it seems that white collar crime pays. That may not be the case for executives of Johnson & Johnson in a couple of high-profile cases moving toward trial. Not only will Ethicon (a division of J & J) be forced to be deposed in the ongoing transvaginal mesh […]
You can buy almost anything on eBay, right? Even transvaginal mesh implants that have been taken off the market. DrugWatch reports that the Bard Avaulta polypropylene mesh has shown up on an eBay auction, including a Plus Posterior mesh. The price? $50. You can buy two Anterior Support System products […]
In December, at the Joint meeting of the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration, oral contraceptives containing drospirenone, approved since 2001, were discussed in detail. Drospirenone is a form of progestin, a synthetic hormone which is […]
Have you ever wondered how risky and dangerous drugs make it to market under the watchful eye of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, charged with the responsibility of making sure they are safe and effective before they are released? The Journal of the American Medical Association tackles that question […]
It is one of the lesser known transvaginal meshes. Coloplast will now become the sixth multidistrict litigation consolidated and the fifth to be heard in the Southern District of West Virginia. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) on August 6 ordered at least 24 Coloplast federal lawsuits (MDL No. […]
