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Uloric Gout Medication and Heart Attacks woman holding her hands with arthritis

Uloric Gout Medication and Heart Attacks: What Are the Risks?

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardSeptember 3, 2019

In 2009, Uloric (active ingredient febuxostat) became the first prescription gout medication to gain FDA approval in 40 years. Doctors were quick to prescribe the new blockbuster drug, which has generated $1.9 billion in sales for manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals within the last five years alone.   Then, in February 2019, the use of this medication…

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HIV Drug Linked to Extreme Bone Loss by Science featured image showing pills and syringe next to stethoscope and HIV name tag

HIV Drug Linked to Extreme Bone Loss by Science

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardAugust 24, 2019

Scientific research links more than one HIV drug which has been manufactured by Gilead Sciences Inc. to premature bone loss. Litigation against the manufacturer alleges that Gilead was aware of these risks and downplayed them when marketing the drugs, which net the company billions of dollars in annual profits. The first tenofovir lawsuit was filed…

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Surgical Stapler Malfunctions Went to a Hidden Database Featured image showing surgical stapler in use during surgery

Surgical Stapler Malfunctions Went to a Hidden Database

Defective Device InformationBy Sarah ShowardJuly 17, 2019

The medical industry is still absorbing the shock from the Food and Drug Administration’s 2019 announcement that more than 56,000 reports of surgical stapler defects from 2011 through 2018 had been kept from public disclosure in a hidden FDA database. Many of those reports included references to excess bleeding and other surgical complications that resulted…

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Talc Baby Powder Causes Cancer - $300 Million Awarded to Plaintiff

Talc Baby Powder by Johnson & Johnson Causes Cancer – $300 Million Awarded to Plaintiff

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardJuly 3, 2019

For over a century, Johnson & Johnson has been one of the most trusted brands in American homes, but thousands of people are now allegedly paying the tragic price for that trust. One court recently demanded that Johnson & Johnson pay out $300 Million for punitive damages in the case of a woman who claims…

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Plaintiff Awarded $80 Million in Prolift Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit

Plaintiff Awarded $80 Million in Prolift Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit

Defective Device InformationBy Sarah ShowardJune 11, 2019

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,…

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Monsanto Hit for $2 Billion in Damages in Third Roundup Cancer Verdict

Monsanto Hit for $2 Billion in Damages in Third Roundup Cancer Verdict

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardJune 5, 2019

Monsanto 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…

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blood thinners - Why Can't We Stop The Bleeding When On blood thinners featured image showing a model of a human heart for medical examination

Why Can’t We Stop The Bleeding When On Blood Thinners?

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardJune 1, 2019

With 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)…

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$80 Million Awarded to Plaintiff Claiming Monsanto's Roundup Causes Cancer

$80 Million Awarded to Plaintiff Claiming Roundup by Monsanto Causes Cancer

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardMay 28, 2019

A 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 by Monsanto 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…

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Gout Drug Medication Increases Risk of Death Per FDA Warning

Gout Drug Medication Increases Risk of Death Per FDA Warning

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardMarch 28, 2019

The FDA has slapped a black box warning on Takeda’s relatively new gout medicine, Uloric (Febuxostat) gout drug medicine, based on reports that the drug is linked to an increased risk of cardiac-related death compared to older gout treatments.   Uloric gout drug medicine linked to cardiac-related deaths   Uloric is manufactured by Japanese drug…

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Fluoroquinolones (FLQs) Can Cause Aortic Aneurysms and Aortic Dissection

Fluoroquinolones (FLQs) Can Cause Aortic Aneurysms and Aortic Dissection

Dangerous DrugBy Sarah ShowardMarch 26, 2019

The 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…

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