Almost everyone has heard advertisements for lawyers representing women damaged by transvaginal mesh. And the response has been overwhelming. There are almost 35,000 cases filed in one court alone, the federal court in Charleston, West Virginia. Thousands more are filed around the country naming primarily six manufacturers – Ethicon ( […]
Author: Cal Warriner
Just how deeply has Big Pharma infiltrated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), especially when it comes to blockbuster drugs? On a regular basis the agency convenes experts to listen to the latest evidence and make decisions whether a drug should be pulled from the market or if it […]
There was nothing to indicate otherwise, so a Georgia man mixed Tylenol and the prescription painkiller, Vicodin. After all, both drugs were prescribed by his physician. The toxic result was acute liver failure. Now Jonathon Eric Tyler has joined dozens of others who have filed defective product lawsuits after they […]
A new study suggests pregnant women stay far away from prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin, especially early in their pregnancy. Published in Obstetrics Gynecology September and in print, October 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the study that confirmed what research to date […]
As we age, we are more likely to get cataracts, a cloudy lens in the eye that reduces our ability to see. Researchers from Dallas suspected the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, was correlated with the development of cataracts. Results from a new study prove that assumption is […]
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has just created a new MDL (multidistrict litigation) proceeding in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This new MDL has been formed in order to centralize the various state court claims alleging that Effexor, the serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant causes birth defects […]
Researchers publishing in the August 27th issue of the online journal Clinical Drug Investigation, report that use of the cancer drug Avastin has been linked to high blood pressure and gastrointestinal bleeding. This is not the first bad news associated with Avastin. The drug was approved by the Food and […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally seems to be taking something other than a head-in-the-sand approach to monitoring medical devices after they are approved and in use by patients. The U.S. does not monitor medical devices after they go through the FDA’s approval process. Since most medical devices are […]
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed a tool to look into the world of bacteria that causes chronic infection in patients and the protective mechanism that makes some immune to antibiotic treatment. Biofilm forms as a reaction to the introduction of bacteria. Using super-resolution light microscopy, which has ten times […]
It’s a novel idea that actually makes sense – the consumer group, Consumers Union, wants hip and knee implants to come with a warranty. In case a medical device fails the patient prematurely, the patient would not have to carry the burden of the costly revision surgery. This idea is […]
