Over the past eight years, juries across the country have rendered many verdicts against vaginal mesh manufacturers, after finding the devices caused severe and life-threatening complications. In one of the latest pelvic mesh trials, Ethicon – a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson – was hit with an $80 million judgement regarding its Prolift mesh implants,…
DetailsMonsanto lost in court a third time in defense of their Roundup weed killer, which allegedly causes cancer, according to at least 1,000 lawsuits consolidated in the Northern District of California, and 12,000 others filed elsewhere around the country. The Oakland jury ordered Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a couple…
DetailsWith antidotes now available for Pradaxa, Eliquis and Xarelto why are patients continuing to die from uncontrollable bleeding while on blood thinners? The answer unfortunately is that the antidote is expensive and hospitals are worried that they won’t get reimbursed for the cost of saving lives! Millions of Americans are on blood thinners (anticoagulants)…
DetailsA federal jury in San Francisco awarded 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman of California $80 million after he filed a lawsuit claiming that several years’ worth of exposure to Roundup weed killer on his Sonoma County land greatly contributed to his development of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The lawsuit alleged that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer was defective by design…
DetailsThe FDA has slapped a black box warning on Takeda’s relatively new gout medicine, Uloric (Febuxostat), based on reports that the drug is linked to an increased risk of cardiac-related death compared to older gout treatments. Uloric linked to cardiac-related deaths Uloric is manufactured by Japanese drug maker Takeda, and was approved for sale in…
DetailsThe US Food and Drug Administration issued a December 2018 warning that taking FLQs (fluoroquinolones antibiotics) puts patients at a higher risk of ruptures or tears in the aorta. According to the FDA’s analysis of adverse events, the risk of aortic aneurysm in the general FLQ-using population is nine per 100,000. However, in high risk…
DetailsA California jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its former talc supplier Cyprus Mines Corp. to pay a woman with mesothelioma $29.5 million. The trial began on January 7th and wrapped up on March 13, 2019 after two days of deliberation. According to the verdict, all 12 jurors believed that Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder…
DetailsEarlier this month, the Superior Court of California ruled that personal injury lawsuits filed against Gilead Science, Inc. over its drug tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) can proceed. The company had attempted to dismiss the cases, which allege that HIV/AIDS medications based on TDF cause permanent kidney and bone damage. The court rejected all but one…
DetailsThere is promising news for the more than 4 million patients who take Xarelto® (Riviaroxaban) or Eliquis® (Aixaban) on a daily basis. These blood thinners, while effective, have been shown to cause uncontrolled and sometimes life-threatening bleeding events. The FDA has finally approved a reversal agent that can stop the anticoagulant effects of Xa inhibitors, in the form…
DetailsAcross the U.S., over 1 million people undergo surgery to repair hernias annually. The majority of hernia repairs are done by reinforcing the affected areas with a man-made synthetic mesh. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 33% of patients report adverse events with hernia mesh. These complications, which often manifest as severe…
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