Daily Archives: July 8, 2011

The family of a 15-year-old North Carolina girl who was taking the birth control pill Yasmin to treat her acne and then died of a pulmonary embolism, are suing the drug’s maker Bayer, claiming the company did not adequately warn ... Read More

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration warned of newly discovered cardiovascular risks associated with Pfizer’s popular smoking-cessation drug Chantix. But it turns out those risks, which include higher occurrence of heart attack and other adverse cardiovascular events in Chantix ... Read More

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will pay $40.75 million to settle allegations brought by 38 attorneys general that the drug company and its subsidiary Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc engaged in deceptive practices when they distributed “adulterated” lots of the prescription drugs Kytril, Bactroban, ... Read More

More than 507 New Zealand patients received the defective DePuy Orthopaedics ASR hip replacement system, and 28 have had to have them removed since last year. Yet New Zealanders cannot sue the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that manufactured the defective ... Read More

There is much debate about the vaccine Gardasil, which was introduced in 2006 for girls, and marketed as a weapon against cervical cancer. The vaccine actually targets human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that is linked to the development ... Read More

What a woman consumes when she is pregnant can have a detrimental effect on her unborn child. Because of this, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) puts all prescription drugs into one of five categories based on harm to the ... Read More

Amtrak has filed a lawsuit against the Nevada trucking company whose driver crashed through a railroad crossing gate and into the side of the California-bound Zephyr train last week, killing 6 people and injuring 20 others. Amtrak filed the lawsuit ... Read More