Transvaginal Mesh Litigation — Is It for You?
Civil lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. Without this recourse, many victims of negligence, injurious pharmaceuticals and faulty medical devices would have no way to recover...
View ArticleActos: Blowing the Whistle
The drug pioglitazone, marketed as Actos®, is prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes. Chemically related to the diabetes drug Avandia, Actos has come under fire in recent years for serious, sometimes...
View ArticlePradaxa Product Liability Update
When introduced by German pharmaceutical manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim, it was hoped the prescription drug Pradaxa would replace Coumadin, a popular blood-thinning product with a troubled history...
View ArticleApproving Too Quickly? Drug Safety and the FDA
In October, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug dabigatran to reduce the risk of blood clots and stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. Marketed as the twice-daily...
View ArticleTransvaginal Mesh: Never Tested?
Serious complications, loss of sexual pleasure, constant pain: a sad combination. Women who underwent vaginal placement of surgical mesh experience these losses daily, and wonder how this damaging...
View ArticleAdverse Effects: Anticoagulants Top the List
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing medication error and identifying unsafe practices that lead to drug injury. In May of this year,...
View ArticleDangers of Actos to Diabetes Patients
Drug manufacturers are challenged to create safe drugs that target a specific condition in the human body. The research and development process inevitably reaps more failures than successes. When a...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Black Box Label on Your Meds
Whether by need or by choice, many Americans look for health in a bottle. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), in any given month during the three-year period from 2005...
View ArticleUnderstanding Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Hundreds of women who received mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) are suing manufacturers and physicians for injuries suffered as a result of the procedure. As the focus on damage caused by...
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