According to documents submitted in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana, a new Actos bladder cancer lawsuit was added to the docket on June 12, 2013.  Actos side effects litigation against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, makers of the controversial type 2 diabetes medication (pioglitazone), has been... Read More

A couple from Layton, Utah are suing Takeda, the makers of diabetes drug Actos, after the husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The lawsuit was filed on June 4, 2013, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana as part of the... Read More

Actos is a drug manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceuticals that was approved by the FDA in 1999 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The European Medicines Agency approved the drug the following year. Though a possible link to bladder cancer arose in 2005 clinical trials,... Read More

Australia resident Peter Marshall has filed a claim in U.S. Court against Actos manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., alleging that he developed bladder cancer as a result of taking the diabetes drug. Marshall, 69, has no family history or risk factors for bladder cancer other than taking Actos... Read More

What do Robert James Atkin Jr., Harlan O. Erickson, Eugene Walter Gamble, Gerald Higgins, Philip L. Hughes, John Theodore Mitchell, Melvin P. Nicholas and Kenneth Trossman all have in common? The answer is that they are all suing Takeda Pharmaceuticals for manufacturing a diabetes drug... Read More

There are currently more than 3,000 claimants who have filed an Actos bladder cancer lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and the first to go to trial is being heard by a Los Angeles jury. In the latest Actos trial news, a doctor took the stand and... Read More

California resident Fred Marinello filed a new Actos cancer lawsuit on March 22, 2013. The case is proceeding in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The plaintiff brings counts against Actos manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals, claiming they did not adequately inform consumers and doctors about... Read More