FEBRUARY 17, 2009 – Requip, a drug designed to treat Parkinson’s Disease and also sold as a treatment for Restless Leg Syndrome, has been linked to compulsive behaviors, including gambling. This is similar to the effects of the drug Mirapex, another dopamine agonist for treating Parkinson’s. As early as 2003, these drugs were known to cause pathological gambling and other compulsive behavior.
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Posted February 19, 2009 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Health | Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls
By Josh Goldstein and Joseph N. DiStefano
August 20, 2005
The Philadelphia Inquirer
It was just the first of more than 4,200 lawsuits against Merck & Co. Inc. over its Vioxx painkiller, but news of yesterday’s $253.4 million verdict in Texas against the drugmaker surged through the legal profession and Wall Street.
In New York City, where Alise Reicin, Merck’s vice president of clinical research, was being deposed by lawyers representing plaintiffs in other Vioxx cases, the verdict caused a stir.
Shortly after learning the ...
continue reading...By Maria Vogel-Short
New Jersey Law Journal
February 13, 2008
Plaintiffs in New Jersey and six other states who claim the antibiotic Ketek caused liver disease are getting a booster shot from a congressional inquiry into the clinical trials that led to FDA approval.
On Tuesday, witnesses at a hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations testified that Ketek’s trials were flawed and that the company had knowledge of flawed data even before FDA approval.
More than pending ...
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CONTACT: Attorney Ramon R. Lopez and/or Attorney Jason E. Ochs
Telephone: 949-737-1501
Fax: 949-737-1504
Email: rlopez@lopezmchugh.com, jochs@lopezmchugh.com
CEDARS-SINAI PATIENTS SUE BECAUSE OF FATAL DISEASE.
Los Angeles, California, January 16, 2008 – On Friday, January 11, 2008, 63-year-old Priscilla Geffen and 60-year-old Michael Gleaton filed nearly identical lawsuits alleging that they contracted a rare, terminal disease known as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis after undergoing routine MRI’s with gadolinium-contrast dye at the S. Mark Taper Imaging Center ...
JANUARY 29, 2009 – According to the Food and Drug Administration, the Peanut Corporation of America found salmonella in its plant in Blakely, Georgia, but shipped the tainted product anyway. The Peanut Corporation of America found strains of salmonella during twelve tests it conducted in 2007 and 2008 at its Blakely, Georgia, plant. In January of 2009, FDA inspectors visited the plant and found still more salmonella contamination. Federal inspectors reported having found roaches, mold, a leaking roof, and ...
continue reading...JANUARY 15, 2009 – Eli Lilly and Co, under criminal and civil investigation concerning the drug Zyprexa, has pleaded guilty to violation of federal law and settled Medicaid fraud claims based on off-label promotion of Zyprexa. The drug was approved for the treatment of schizophrenia but was promoted by Eli Lilly for unapproved uses, including dementia—especially in the elderly. Due to the drug’s propensity to cause diabetes, this led to many patients unnecessarily taking Zyprexa and suffering serious ...
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