According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes increased by 176 percent between 1980 through 2010. As of 2010, about 25.8 million people were reported to have the condition, which can result in complications such as heart disease and... Read More

Plaintiff Michelle Martin is among the latest to join litigation against DePuy Orthopedics, the orthopedics device manufacturing company responsible for the manufacture of the Pinnacle hip replacement system. Her lawsuit was filed on the 3rd of October, 2012, in the Superior Court of the State... Read More

Plaintiff Barbara Irwin has joined litigation against Bayer Corporation, Bayer Healthcare LLC, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Bayer AG, and McKesson Corporation. She filed her lawsuit on the 9th of October, 2012, joining the multidistrict litigation case that is currently consolidating thousands... Read More

A lawsuit recently added to the vaginal mesh MDL in West Virginia names six different vaginal mesh products from different manufacturers as defective and dangerous to women. The vaginal mesh products cited in the lawsuit are Gynemesh, TVT, the Prolift system, Prolift+M, Prolene Mesh, and... Read More

A Texas woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of the type II diabetes drug Actos, after her husband died as an alleged result of Actos-related bladder cancer. Gail Hamilton filed her lawsuit on the 14th of August, 2012, in the... Read More

World health care leaders met in late August of this year at the World Meeting of Sexual Medicine in Chicago to discuss the side effects of the popular male pattern baldness drug Propecia. Sexual health experts such as the Sexual Medicine Society of North America... Read More

A new study has linked an increased risk of both gastrointestinal bleeding and stroke to the popular SSRI drug Zoloft. The study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, has pointed out several new side effects of the drug, which has already become controversial... Read More

In one of the new Propecia lawsuits alleging sexual dysfunction Paul Jenkins, a resident of Oklahoma, filed his case on September 19, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The case names as defendants Merck & Co., Inc. and... Read More