The number of Lipitor lawsuits against the pharmaceutical company Pfizer continues to grow. A story in Reuters explains the rising number of diabetes lawsuits that allege the anti-cholesterol drug has caused serious health complications in women. The number of lawsuits filed over the past five months in federal court has gone from 56 to almost 1,000.
In 2012 the FDA issued a warning that statins such as Lipitor have been linked to an increase in blood ...
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In seeking the removal of the black box warning, Pfizer relied on a meta-analysis of five studies to argue there is no association between the drug and suicidal thoughts. The advisory panel nonetheless is ...
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The 2014 Scientific Sessions at the American College of Cardiology highlighted a new class of cholesterol drugs aimed at lowering LDL. These drugs, called PSCK9 inhibitors, may be an effective substitute for widely used statins like Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor. An article by the Cleveland Clinic notes that this class of drugs may prove promising for situations in which statins are either ineffective or not tolerated well by the patient.
An alternative to statins is especially ...
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If you are one of the many women who developed diabetes while taking the statin Lipitor, you may be considering filing a lawsuit to try to recover compensation for the manufacturer’s negligence. Unfortunately, filing and pursuing a lawsuit is a complicated, expensive, and time-consuming proposition. Only by consulting with a qualified attorney can an injured woman ensure that all of the requirements for filing a lawsuit are met, because every case is different, and general information will ...
Numerous lawsuits have been filed across the United States claiming that the highly popular medication Lipitor elevates blood sugar levels and causes diabetes in women. And women who developed diabetes while on Lipitor are now wondering whether the drug causes diabetes.
Lipitor is a statin, which is a class of drugs that lowers a user’s cholesterol to help prevent stroke and heart disease. Although clinical studies have shown that Lipitor reduces the risk of stroke ...
continue reading...On July 1, 2015, the first Lipitor diabetes lawsuit trial is set to begin under guidelines of a multidistrict litigation. Lipitor is classified as a statin, a drug prescribed to reduce high cholesterol levels. More than 20 million people in the United States take statins to control their cholesterol.
In July 2013, an initial request to centralize various Lipitor lawsuits related to diabetes in women into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) was rejected ...
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