A $4 million verdict has been reached in a Topamax lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical unit Janssen.
On October 30 , 2013, a Philadelphia jury sided with the woman who took Topamax for six months during her pregnancy and gave birth to a boy with cleft lip. The suit alleged Janssen’s flawed drug Topamax was the cause of a severe birth defect in a baby boy. Four surgeries were needed to correct the extensive injury.
The Plaintiff’s attorney stated ...
continue reading...After a ten-year long criminal investigation, Johnson & Johnson has entered a guilty plea and will pay $2.2 billion in damages. The U.S. Department of Justice charged the company with promoting the drugs Risperdal and Invega for off-label uses (uses that were not approved by the FDA). These drugs were approved solely for the treatment of schizophrenia, but Johnson & Johnson was promoting them for non-schizophrenic patients—including children, ...
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According to a USA Today story about an ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak, the specialty pharmacy responsible has been flagrantly violating both sanitation standards and the terms of the federal laws permitting it to operate.
But the story characterizes the problem not simply as the practices of a single irresponsible business, but a systemic failing that’s permitted “compounding pharmacies” to operate on a large scale under relatively lax regulatory standards.
And patients ...
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While the Affordable Care Act is facing numerous administrative problems, the number of Obamacare legal challenges is growing.
Problems with Healthcare.gov, the website intended to enroll people in online insurance exchanges, are well known at this point and currently the subject of Congressional inquiry. Enrollment is believed to ...
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ABC 30 out of Fresno, Calif., reports on a clinical trial for a new blood pressure treatment called Renal Denervation.
The proposed treatment would target overactive renal nerves, which can cause blood pressure to skyrocket. Renal nerves transmit information from the kidneys to the brain. In Renal Denervation, doctors insert a needle into an artery in the groin near the kidneys and burn the nerves.
The ABC 30 story quotes a ...
continue reading...According to a July 9th statement from the United States Attorney’s Eastern District of Pennsylvania Office, two of the biggest document-shredding companies in America have agreed to pay a total of $1.1 million dollars to resolve a lawsuit over their failure to properly shred sensitive government documents.
In a classic story of David vs. Goliath, the plaintiff, an owner of a family run document-shredding business, took on three of the biggest document shredding companies in America and now stands to ...
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