Posts Tagged 'Lipitor'

How Many Lipitor Lawsuits Will There Be?

more than 1000 lipitor diabetes lawsuits filedAt least a thousand Lipitor lawsuits have already been filed as part of a South Carolina multidistrict litigation. Plaintiffs in Lipitor lawsuits claim pharmaceutical giant Pfizer marketed its cholesterol drug without regard for the safety of patients, concealing information about the link between Lipitor and diabetes. As Lipitor lawsuits continue to pour in, many are wondering just how large the litigation will grow. The lead lawyer ...

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Pfizer Fails to Get 50 Lipitor Lawsuits Dismissed

pfizer fails to dismiss lipitor lawsuitsPfizer recently tried to have 94 Lipitor lawsuits dismissed in the South Carolina Lipitor multidistrict litigation. While 44 of these were successfully removed from litigation, the district court denied Pfizer’s attempt to dismiss 50 more on the grounds of unfulfilled discovery obligations.

The Lipitor lawsuits in question are part of MDL 2502, which includes more than 2,000 Lipitor lawsuits. The multidistrict litigation was centralized in the U.S. District Court for ...

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FDA Approves New Cholesterol Drug from Sanofi, Regeneron

fda approves new cholesterol drugNasdaq.com reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Praluent, the first of a new and highly anticipated class of cholesterol medications. The drug, jointly developed by Sanofi SA and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, will provide an alternative to patients who have not had success with statins like Pfizer’s controversial Lipitor.

From 1996 until its patent expired in 2011, Lipitor was the world’s best-selling drug, with an estimated $125 billion in ...

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Number of New Diabetes Diagnoses Strongly Increase After Medicaid Expansion

medicaid expansion shows more suffer from diabetes than thoughtAfter a number of states expanded their Medicaid eligibility to include low-income adults, the number of new diabetes diagnoses also increased. A study in Diabetes Care talks about how expansion of Medicaid eligibility has had a big effect on the availability of healthcare to patients in vulnerable populations. Modern Healthcare recently detailed the study and some other possible results of the care expansion.

According to the study, ...

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Pfizer CEO’s Pay Rises 23%

pfizer ceo paid millions despite lipitor lawsuitsPfizer Chief Executive Ian Read’s total pay rose 23 percent last year, a Wall Street Journal article reports. Read’s total pay package for 2014 was $23.3 million. The pay increase comes after Pfizer’s board declared Read’s leadership last year to be “outstanding.”

Despite the board’s praise, 2014 was hardly a trouble-free year for the New York–based company. As in previous years, Lipitor lawsuits continued to accumulate against Pfizer. ...

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4 Things You Absolutely Need to Know About Lipitor Lawsuits

link established between lipitor and diabetesAs evidence continues to mount proving Lipitor’s role in causing Type II diabetes in women, questions continue to surface about how to file a Lipitor lawsuit.

The cholesterol-reduction drug has been on the market since 1996 and millions of prescriptions have been written each year since. It wasn’t until 2012, however, that the Food and Drug Administration began raising alarms about a possible link between Lipitor and diabetes, particularly among female patients.

There ...

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