There are estimates that at least 10,000 patients may unnecessarily have suffered kidney damage due to use of aprotinin (Trasylol) during heart surgery. Many patients may have been injected with Trasylol to reduce blood loss during coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery. Thus, the goal with using Trasylol was to stop bleeding during the heart bypass [...]
In a move that was unexpected, the first Neurontin trial has ended with a dismissal, after an anonymous donor offered to put money in a trust fund for the 10-year-old daughter of a Massachusetts woman who committed suicide two years after taking the anti-seizure drug. Plaintiff’s lawyer Mark Lanier told Bloomberg Television that the anonymous donor was [...]
Fosamax® (Alendronate Sodium) is a member of a class of drugs known as “bisphosphonates.” Manufactured by Merck & Co., Fosamax was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995, and is commonly used to treat patients with osteoporosis and Paget’s disease. Fosamax and other bisphosphonates, including Aredia® and Zometa®, have been linked to [...]
Merck, the manufacturer of Vioxx, has begun to make partial payments to some qualified Vioxx claimants who had heart attacks as direct result of taking their once famed drug. Of the more than 50,000 potential claims, only a few hundred were paid in August, and most other pending claims will actually be paid at a [...]
According to Reuters out of New York, Merck & Co, and Schering-Plough Corp will pay $41.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits over their shared cholesterol drugs Vytorin, and Zetia, the companies said on Wednesday, August 5, 2009.
The lawsuits involved allegations arising from the Enhance clinical trial, whose results released in January 2008, raised serious questions about [...]
The pharmaceutical drug Avandia, also known as Rosiglitazone, is a drug that is taken for the treatment of diabetes. Recent medical studies have shown its use increases the risk of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) by approximately 30% – 40%. It has also been shown to increase other health risks such as: Congestive Heart Failure; [...]
It is now going on almost five years since the drug Vioxx was pulled from store shelves by its manufacturer, Merck, but it appears the legal system will be seeing the class action against Merck for sometime to come.
On May 26, 2009, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Merck’s appeal in a shareholder lawsuit that [...]
Lawyers representing approximately 117 people who claim to have suffered loss of smell after using the popular nasal spray have filed lawsuit against the Scottsdale, Arizona based drug manufacturer Matrixx on June 22, 2009. Several of the plaintiffs live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, and one, a owner of a well known, and upscale, Las [...]
Reports of liver damage and other injuries were reported after a recall was made on Hydroxycut products; a Pharmaceutical Class Action lawsuit has been filed in Canada of all places alleging the manufacturer of Hydroxycut products misled the public about the true safety of the weight-loss aid.
The product Hydroxycut is manufactured by Lovate Health Sciences [...]
The recall of the Duragesic Pain Patches was done by Johnson & Johnson, and Novartis after the discovery of manufacturer defects that may cause the pain patches to leak a toxic fluid. The toxic fluid was identified as Fentanyl, and the leak could lead to fatal overdoeses. All of the Duragestic patches that are set [...]
