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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
A California jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its former talc supplier Cyprus Mines Corp. to pay a female cancer patient 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…
Earlier 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…