Patients taking drugs manufactured by Pfizer, Eli Lilly & Co., and AbbVie for arthritis may find new warnings attached to those medications. The FDA is seeking additional language warning of serious side effects and possible fatalities associated with the drugs.
The medications are part of a class of arthritis drugs known as JAK inhibitors. They work by blocking enzymes in the body known to cause arthritic inflammation ...
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The death toll formally attributed to breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma now stands at 36, although it could be higher. Three new fatalities have occurred within the same six months and just weeks before the implants implicated in the deaths were set to be recalled.
The implants in question were made by Allergan prior to its acquisition by AbbVie. The Biocell textured ...
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After years of litigation and a series of legal decisions that never really gave either side any clear advantage, the battle over testosterone therapy and the methods used to market it may finally be coming to a close.
Of the nearly 7,000 lawsuits filed by men claiming that their use of testosterone therapy led to dangerous complications including heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots, more than ...
continue reading...The same judge who previously overturned a $150 million AndroGel verdict has reversed a second verdict in the litigation worth over $140 million.
The case was brought by Tennessee resident Jeffrey Konrad. Konrad alleges that his two-month period of using AbbVie’s AndroGel testosterone replacement product caused him to have a heart attack in 2010. A Chicago jury agreed and awarded him $140,000 in compensatory damages and $140 million punitively in response ...
continue reading...When an AndroGel lawsuit brought against pharmaceutical manufacturer AbbVie resulted in a $150 million award for the Oregon resident who filed it, the legal world took notice. The award was unique not only for the amount, but also in the way the amount was distributed.
A Chicago jury awarded plaintiff Jesse Mitchell nothing in compensation for the injuries or medical costs he incurred after a heart attack he attributed ...
continue reading...Testim maker Endo International’s Auxilium unit emerged victorious in the first trial over whether its testosterone therapy drug caused a heart attack in a patient.
The Tennessee plaintiff had been prescribed Testim for what he described as chronic fatigue and had been applying the testosterone gel to himself for over 6 months. In July 2014, he suffered a heart attack and was subsequently hospitalized twice. His recovery since ...
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