Pradaxa received approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2012 as a stroke prevention treatments for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. According to the manufacturer’s website, Pradaxa is “at the forefront of a new generation of oral blood thinning treatments, which prevent... Read More

Within the last 13 years, there have been more than 400 reports of sex-related side effects after Propecia use in men who have taken the drug. A recent study from George Washington University, which interviewed 54 men under 40 who claim to have suffered from... Read More

Chantix plaintiff Eric Hall filed a lawsuit against drug maker Pfizer on July 2, 2012, holding the drugmkaer responsible for injuries he suffered when he experienced serious psychological side effects as a result of his use of the drug. The case will be consolidated in... Read More

On July 23, 2012, a jury in Kern County Superior Court in California awarded $5 million to a woman who suffered injuries from a C.R. Bard Avaulta transvaginal mesh, plus an additional half a million dollars to the woman's husband because her vaginal mesh injuries... Read More

In 1999, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Actos as a treatment for type II diabetes. However, as cited in many lawsuits by an Actos attorney, Takeda Pharmaceuticals—the manufacturer of Actos—had knowledge of a two-year carcinogenicity study conducted before FDA approval. The study revealed... Read More

Vaginal mesh products are designed to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP). However, many transvaginal mesh lawsuits cite scientific evidence that vaginal mesh is “biologically incompatible with human tissue and promotes an immune response in a large subset of the population.”... Read More

Zoloft, known generically as sertraline, is an antidepressant medication in the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug class. On December 30, 1991, the FDA approved Zoloft to treat major depressive disorder (MDD); it was later approved to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, acute post-traumatic... Read More

A lawsuit filed by a Minnesota woman, Cathy Wagamon, claims that the plaintiff suffered a pulmonary embolism as a result of her use of the popular birth control medication. Yaz and Yasmin are both popular oral contraceptives that have been linked to pulmonary embolism, stroke,... Read More