A lawsuit recently filed by a Minnesota couple is the latest to claim that type II diabetes drug Actos is dangerously defective. William Blumenstine and his wife, Kathy Jo Williams, filed their lawsuit on the 14th of May, 2012, against drug maker Takeda in the... Read More

Propecia, a drug to treat male pattern baldness, has been linked to a slew of persistent sexual side effects – decreased libido, testicular pain, decreased sperm count, and erectile dysfunction resulting from Propecia – and many patients are angry about a lack of sufficient warning.... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zoloft (sertraline) in 1991; 15 years later, when manufacturer Pfizer's patent expired, the FDA approved the first sertraline generics. At the time, Gary J. Buehler, Director of the Office of Generic Drugs, emphasized that generics were a safe... Read More

New research into the popular blood thinners dabigatran (brand name Pradaxa) and warfarin (brand name Coumadin) indicate that the risks associated with dabigatran – Pradaxa internal bleeding, hemorrhaging, and even death from Pradaxa – are greater than those linked to warfarin. This information will likely... Read More

A New Mexico resident, Stephanie Brazil, has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against drug maker Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the company responsible for the manufacture and marketing of the popular fourth generation drospirenone-based birth control known as... Read More

A new vaginal mesh-related lawsuit was filed on the 14th of May, 2012, by a North Carolina woman who claims that she experienced side effects and complications as a result of her use of the device. The plaintiff filed her lawsuit in the United States'... Read More

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered in April of 2012 that all federal lawsuits dealing with the hair loss drug Propecia be consolidated into a multi district litigation case that would encompass side effects cases dealing with the sexual side effects of the medication.... Read More

On May 23, 2012, Diana Jean Taylor filed Actos litigation in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois on behalf of her father, Virgil Mason McCallister's estate. Taylor names as defendant manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and alleges that her father developed bladder cancer from Actos. The... Read More