Sandra Allen, the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by her DePuy hip attorney, alleges that she endured severe injuries, damage to her hip, and discomfort after being implanted with the Pinnacle hip device. Her lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of... Read More

A lawsuit recently added to the vaginal mesh MDL in West Virginia names six different vaginal mesh products from different manufacturers as defective and dangerous to women. The vaginal mesh products cited in the lawsuit are Gynemesh, TVT, the Prolift system, Prolift+M, Prolene Mesh, and... Read More

GranuFlo, a medication used during dialysis treatments, is manufactured by Fresenius. Its solution has ingredients that convert to bicarbonate when mixed with other substances. During dialysis treatment, this is necessary to clean waste products from the blood. It has been discovered, however, that some patients... Read More

An Alabama man has filed suit against drug maker Pfizer because of side effects he says he experienced as a result of his use of the smoking cessation drug Chantix. Plaintiff Pool filed his lawsuit in the United States' District Court for the Northern District... Read More

A Texas woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of the type II diabetes drug Actos, after her husband died as an alleged result of Actos-related bladder cancer. Gail Hamilton filed her lawsuit on the 14th of August, 2012, in the... Read More

World health care leaders met in late August of this year at the World Meeting of Sexual Medicine in Chicago to discuss the side effects of the popular male pattern baldness drug Propecia. Sexual health experts such as the Sexual Medicine Society of North America... Read More

A new study has linked an increased risk of both gastrointestinal bleeding and stroke to the popular SSRI drug Zoloft. The study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, has pointed out several new side effects of the drug, which has already become controversial... Read More

One of the new Pradaxa lawsuits filed in the Northern District of Mississippi on September 6, 2012, was transferred to the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the Southern District of Illinois on September 21. The Honorable Judge David R. Herndon is overseeing the case and... Read More