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 ...
The only surviving crew member of the Metrolink commuter train disaster told federal investigators that a few months before the collision, he had previously complained to a supervisor about the engineer’s improper use of his cell phone while on duty. The head-on collision with a freight train resulted in 25 people dead and 135 injured when the engineer failed to stop at a red light.
A mere two days before the collision, the crew member had asked the same supervisor whether ...
continue reading...FEBRUARY 16, 2009 – In sharp contrast to the actions of pilot Chesley Sullenberger and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles during the “Miracle on the Hudson” crash landing of US Airways flight 1549 on January 15, 2009, the pilots for Continental Connection Flight 3407 are suspected of contributing to the February 12, 2009 crash that killed 50 people in Buffalo, New York.
The black box recording showed that the pilots were aware of “significant” ice buildup on the plane. According to the NTSB, ...
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