An article from the Daily Report Online describes a woman in Georgia who filed the first federal claim against one of the Transvaginal mesh manufacturers. The claim against C.R. Bard detailed the health problems she’s endured as a result of receiving a vaginal mesh implant. She explains the Transvaginal mesh device was implanted to solve prior bladder problems, but it only made matters worse. She immediately sought medical help ...
First Federal Transvaginal Mesh Claim Going to Trial
Posted July 12, 2013 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls | Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit
Diabetes group wants drug-makers to release info
Posted July 12, 2013 in Byetta/Januvia Pancreatic Cancer | Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Health | Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls
According to a story in MedPage Today, the American Diabetes Association is calling for makers of diabetes drugs such as Byetta and Januvia, classified as “incretin therapies,” to release all of the data on their drugs for a review.
The ADA’s demands come as a growing body of evidence links drugs such as Byetta and Januvia to a potentially deadly inflammation of the pancreas called pancreatitis, and to pancreatic cancer. Byetta ...
continue reading...FDA Seeks to Resolve Disparity Between Warnings of Brand Name Drugs and Generics
Posted July 11, 2013 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
In welcome news for patient advocates, the FDA plans to propose rule changes that would require manufacturers of generic drugs to warn patients if they learn of side-effects that doctors may not be aware of.
Currently, manufacturers of brand name drugs are required to immediately modify their product warnings if they receive important new information about risks or side effects. The FDA will then review the label and determine if the modifications ...
continue reading...Medical device regulations criticized
Posted July 5, 2013 in Depuy Hip Replacements | Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Health | Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls | Recall | Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit
A story in Canadian news magazine MacLean’s deals with the haphazard nature of medical device regulation, characterizing the problem as a “scandal in the making.”
According to the article, flawed oversight of medical devices – essentially any medical product that doesn’t work through a chemical process – is an international problem that exists in the United States and Europe, as well as Canada.
The article specifically mentions two medical devices that serve ...
continue reading...Physicians question whether blood pressure drugs over-prescribed
Posted June 29, 2013 in Benicar | Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Health | Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls
A story in The Oregonian deals with the controversial question of whether people with borderline high blood pressure are taking medicine unnecessarily.
The issue is getting a good deal of discussion in the medical community following a recent column in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, in which a British doctor called for raising the blood pressure levels at which medication is prescribed.
Among the doctor’s concerns is that prescribing medication too ...
continue reading...What Can Be Done to Protect Consumers of Generic Drugs?
Posted June 27, 2013 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
On June 24, 2013 the United States Supreme Court decided the case Mutual Pharmaceutical v. Bartlett, and held that the manufacturer of a generic version of a drug could not be held liable for injuries cause by the defective design of that drug. In 2011, the Court had also held that generic drug manufacturers could not be held liable for defective (incomplete) warning labels accompanying their products. The end result is that manufacturers of generic drugs are almost completely protected ...
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