Boston Scientific Announces New Transvaginal Mesh Study Vaginal mesh manufacturer Boston Scientifi chas announced a partnership with the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network to study the effectiveness of vaginal mesh in treating pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The company will invest more than $1...
Birth Defects
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Birth Defects: Antidepressants and Pregnancy Women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil, or Prozac face a difficult decision if they become pregnant. Over the last twenty years, various reports and medical studies have addressed the...
Outdated Labeling
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Propecia Plaintiff Claims Distributor Responsible for Outdated Labeling Merck, McKesson Corporation, and others have been named as the defendants in a new complaint filed by a Propecia side effects lawyer. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a California man who used the defendants’...
$8.3 Million Verdict
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Judge Upholds $8.3 Million DePuy ASR Verdict In March 2013, a California jury awarded plaintiff Loren Kransky $8.34 million in damages from injuries he allegedly sustained after being implanted with the DePuy ASR hip replacement device. Kransky claimed that after his surgery in 2007, he...
Mirena Conference
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Conference Scheduled for Mirena Lawsuit MCL Many plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against Bayer Pharmaceuticals regarding the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD). Often, when a large number of lawsuits that share commonalities are filed against the same defendants, consolidation of the lawsuits...
Zimmer Bellwether
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Bellwether Cases to be Chosen for Zimmer NexGen Knee MDL Nearly 1,000 plaintiffs who filed Zimmer NexGen knee lawsuits have had their complaints consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2272. Although most plaintiffs may possibly wait several more years for their individual...
Metal Fretting
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Stryker Rejuvenate Plaintiff Loses Part of Femur Bone Heavy metal fretting and corrosion between the neck and stem components causing tissue death, bone wear, and metallosis were the impetus for the Stryker Rejuvenate hip recall of July 2012. Unfortunately for plaintiff Michael Kent and his...
Texas Bleeding
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Pradaxa Gastrointestinal Bleed Lawsuit Filed in Texas A man from Texas has filed a lawsuit against Boehringer Ingelheim, alleging their blood-thinning medication Pradaxa resulted in severe gastrointestinal bleeding. Filed on May 2nd in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,...
Misrepresentation
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Transvaginal Mesh Lawyer Alleges Fraudulent Misrepresentation A transvaginal mesh lawsuit was filed against American Medical Systems Inc. in the Superior Court of Los Angeles on June 6, 2013. The complaint stated that the “Caldera Desara Sling System” and “Xenform Mesh” caused the...
A Compensation
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Utah Couple Seeks Actos Cancer Compensation A couple from Layton, Utah are suing Takeda, the makers of diabetes drug Actos, after the husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The lawsuit was filed on June 4, 2013, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana as part...
Unaware of Risks
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Pfizer Knew of Zoloft Pregnancy Risk, Alleges Virginia Woman A lawsuit filed on May 30, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges the makers of antidepressant Zoloft are liable for the wrongful death of the plaintiff’s daughter. The woman had been...
Metallosis
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Illinois Stryker Hip Plaintiff Alleges Heavy Metal Toxicity An Illinois resident has filed a Stryker Rejuvenate lawsuit against Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of George Chivari on May 28, 2013 regarding the...
Heart Defects
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Zoloft Heart Defects Lawsuit Filed in Pennsylvania A woman who was prescribed Zoloft during her pregnancy has filed a claim against the manufacturers Pfizer. According to court documents, the plaintiff alleges the drug caused numerous health complications in her daughter, including facial...
Seeking $20M
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Victim Seeks $20 Million in Latest Transvaginal Mesh Injury Lawsuit In vaginal mesh litigation news, a Kentucky woman is seeking $20 million in damages after suffering debilitating injuries due to complications with her surgical mesh implants. The transvaginal mesh injury lawsuit names as...
Bladder Cancer
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Bladder Cancer Subject of New Actos Lawsuit Actos is a drug manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceuticals that was approved by the FDA in 1999 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The European Medicines Agency approved the drug the following year. Though a possible link to bladder cancer arose in...
Metal-on-Metal
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MRI Can Detect Metal-on-Metal Zimmer Hip Complications According to a new medical study, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to identify and measure inflammation of the joint lining in patients with metal-on-metal hip implants. Measuring this type of inflammation, called synovitis,...
Women Marching
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Five Women Sue Bayer in Latest Yaz Thrombosis Lawsuit Five women hailing from Nebraska, Texas, Florida, and Indiana have joined the ranks of thousands who claim that Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals failed to warn about Yaz blood clots risk. The plaintiffs each took Yasmin or Yaz as their...
Faulty Rejuvenation
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Alabama Man Files Stryker Hip Recall Lawsuit Over Faulty Rejuvenate Implant William Lucy filed a Stryker hip recall lawsuit on April 21, 2013 in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama (Southern), claiming the defendants manufactured and sold a defective Rejuvenate modular hip...
Organ Prolapse
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New Studies Reveal Prevalence of Transvaginal Mesh Complications Pelvic organ prolapse, better known as POP, is a relatively common condition among post-menopausal women, especially those who’ve had multiple children. For a time,surgical mesh devices were marketed as the most effective...
Cardiac Arrest
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Michigan Man Files GranuFlo Cardiac Arrest Lawsuit In a lawsuit filed on May 17, 2013, a plaintiff is seeking damages of $6 million from Fresenius Medical Care, manufacturers of the GranuFlo dialysis treatment, after suffering cardiac arrest and ongoing health problems allegedly caused by the...
$6.5 Million Verdict
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Alleged Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits Update: $6.5 Million Verdict Overturned as Resource4thePeople Attorneys Continue to Accept Cases Plaintiff’s lawyer promises appeal of judge’s decision against California man in first U.S. Actos bladder cancer allegations trial over claims that...
Wrongful Death
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GranuFlo Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Louisiana The children of Herese M. Patton filed a lawsuit in Louisiana on April 23, 2013 against Fresenius Medical Care, alleging that their mother died as a result of using their unreasonably dangerous dialysis products GranuFlo and NaturaLyte. The...
Seeks Certification
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Canadian Woman Seeks Certification of Mirena Class Action Lawsuit A woman in Halifax, Nova Scotia filed suit against Bayer on April 23, 2013 and requested certification of the suit as a class action. If granted, the Mirena class action lawsuit will proceed on behalf of the plaintiff and of...
Worth $1 Million
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Stryker Rejuvenate Lawsuit Seeks $1 Million in Damages Illinois plaintiff Gary L. Wolford is seeking more than $1 million dollars in damages from Striker Orthopaedics, based on allegations of permanent injuries from the defendant’s Rejuvenate hip replacement system. His Stryker hip recall...
California Court
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Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuit Filed in California Court What do Robert James Atkin Jr., Harlan O. Erickson, Eugene Walter Gamble, Gerald Higgins, Philip L. Hughes, John Theodore Mitchell, Melvin P. Nicholas and Kenneth Trossman all have in common? The answer is that they are all suing Takeda...
