The anti-baldness medication Propecia (finasteride) has long been linked to erectile dysfunction and other sexual disorders. Now a retrospective study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has found that 75% of patients who experience side effects resulting from Propecia use also suffer from depression.... Read More

On June 28, 2012, Cathy and Mark Leblanc, individually and on behalf of their minor child B.M.L.. filed a lawsuit due to side effects after taking Zoloft in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The Leblancs are residents of Louisiana. Along... Read More

In a lawsuit recently added to the vaginal mesh MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, plaintiff Mary Higbee states that she suffered and continues to suffer multiple transvaginal mesh problems from the ObTape vaginal sling device. Higbee, a resident... Read More

David Taylor, an Idaho resident, seeks to hold the manufacturer of Actos—Takeda Pharmaceuticals—liable for his injuries by filing a lawsuit against the company in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The suit was filed on August 7, 2012. Taylor claims that Takeda concealed their... Read More

Five plaintiffs—Jordynn Ligocki, Aracelia Lopez, Joyce Simmons, Barbara Davenport, and Kimberly Collins—filed joint lawsuits to join the Yaz multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2100 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on August 8, 2012. The plaintiffs, according to their Yaz attorneys,... Read More

On August 6, 2012, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) signed an order centralizing all federal Coloplast lawsuits for transvaginal mesh problems into one court in the Southern District of West Virginia. The pre-trial proceedings will be managed by Judge Joseph R. Goodwin.... Read More

Pradaxa, an anticoagulant drug, was originally marketed as a superior drug to Coumadin. The drug is designed to reduce the risk of stroke and blood clotting in people who are experiencing non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Since first being approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... Read More

Propecia, a prescription medication used to treat male pattern baldness in men, has been shown to cause sexual side effects from Propecia such as erectile dysfunction, decrease in libido, decrease in arousal, genital shrinkage, problems with orgasm, and other related issues affecting sexual health. Several... Read More