A lawsuit filed by a new plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against drug maker Pfizer claims that the plaintiff involved suffered from serious side effects as a result of her use of the smoking cessation medication Chantix.... Read More

Preclinical animal studies first identified the link connecting Actos with bladder cancer in 2005. Later, a highly publicized study, known as the PROactive clinical trial, revealed that patients taking Actos developed bladder cancer at a rate 2.5 times higher than patients receiving a placebo. The... Read More

A new Actos case has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois by plaintiff James Porter West, Jr, who filed his lawsuit with the help of Actos attorneys on the 9th of July, 2012. His complaint claims that the diabetes medication is... Read More

A lawsuit filed by two adult siblings alleges that their father died of bladder cancer resulting from Actos  use.The lawsuit names as defendants Takeda Pharmaceuticals, et al., along with Eli Lilly and Company. The suit was filed on July 3, 2012 in the Superior Court... Read More

Nearly 300 plaintiffs who have filed suit against drug maker Pfizer because of their smoking cessation drug Chantix are waiting for the court to proceed with the multidistrict litigation case dealing with side effects of the popular drug. Multidistrict litigation cases are formed when a... Read More

Following an FDA safety announcement regarding Actos in summer 2011, the French Medicines Agency suspended sales of the drug and, later that summer, manufacturer Takeda implemented a recall of Actos in France. It was about that time that patients began seeking legal advice in an... Read More

According to his complaint, on around December 17, 2002, Indiana resident Gerald Johnson started taking Actos for the long-term maintenance of his type II diabetes. He took it for six years and stopped on February 28, 2008. Johnson claims that as a result of using... Read More

The side effects of the medication Chantix have been outlined in a report released by the Institute for Safe Medication Practice in its most recent analysis of adverse prescription drug events. These adverse events, which were reported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration through... Read More