On June 14, 2012, Chief District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, who presides over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of West Virginia, issued a pretrial order to proceed with discovery processes in the transvaginal mesh lawsuit MDL. In laymen's terms, this means that... Read More

A new study has increased the amount of evidence regarding the adverse side effects associated with the birth control medication known as Yaz, a drospirenone-based pill that is also sold as Yasmin or Ocella. These birth control medications were initially quite popular but have been... Read More

More than a year ago, on June 15, 2012, the FDA issued a public safety announcement warning of the risk of bladder cancer from Actos. According to the announcement, “use of the diabetes medication Actos (pioglitazone) for more than one year may be associated with... Read More

Former patients of the popular hair loss drug Propecia are reportedly outraged that a prominent chain of hair loss clinics is promoting Propecia despite the dangers that have been linked to the drug. Bosley Medical allegedly promoted the drug even after the founder of the... Read More

The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected Zimmer Inc.'s motion for a mass tort that would centralize NexGen Flex knee litigation in New Jersey. Zimmer had moved for creation of a mass tort in Middlesex County on December 15, 2011, arguing that centralizing the proceedings... Read More

In a new lawsuit alleging complications from the ASR hip replacement system, plaintiff Richard Schwartz of New Jersey notes that when the DePuy hip implant recall of the ASR hip was announced in August 2010, DePuy admitted that the controversial device had a 13 percent... Read More

A new lawsuit regarding multiple birth defects that have been linked to the antidepressant Zoloft was recently filed in a Texas district court. The Zoloft attorney for the plaintiffs, a couple who parented a child with injuries resulting from Zoloft, filed the lawsuit on the... Read More

Three plaintiffs are seeking damages on behalf of their deceased mother from the drug maker of Actos, the type II diabetes treatment medication that has been linked to bladder cancer. The plaintiffs, her three sons, claim that their mother was diagnosed with bladder cancer and... Read More