In 2007, Oklahoma resident Brandy Armantrout started taking the Bayer manufactured oral contraceptive Yaz. Feeling a tingling sensation in her left arm in December of 2012, she went to the hospital to learn that she didn’t have a pulse in her left wrist. In terrible... Read More

Factors like age, prior hysterectomies, and severity of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) may be risk indicators for vaginal mesh complications, according to new research conducted by a Russian medical team. Their findings were made public at the 28th annual European Association of Urology Congress. From... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration recently released a report that showed that the bleeding risks of Pradaxa are comparable to the risks associated with a competing, older drug, known as warfarin. Many patients are skeptical of this report, as the Food and Drug Administration relied... Read More

A Washington woman recently filed a Zoloft birth defects lawsuit on behalf of herself and her young daughter, claiming that her ingestion of the antidepressant during pregnancy resulted in serious injuries to her child. The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More

The trials against Johnson & Johnson’s faulty hip implants are now underway, and a jury has already awarded more than $8 million in damages in the first DePuy hip replacement lawsuit to reach court. More than 10,000 claims have been filed against the manufacturer thus... Read More