A mother from Marion County, Illinois, has filed a Zofran heart defect lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK), the manufacturer of Zofran, the anti-emetic also known as ondansetron. The Plaintiff is the mother and natural guardian of her son, who the suit claims was born with a ventricular septal defect as a... Read more »

District Judge Matthew Kennelly, who is overseeing 1,500 AndroGel testosterone lawsuits in federal court, has denied a request by Abbvie, the manufacturer of AndroGel, to amend the schedule for a group of bellwether trials to be held in 2016 and 2017. Abbvie specifically requested that the court allow expert discovery and summary... Read more »

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are suggesting that the use of two popular “new generation” blood thinners may run as much as twice the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding as the drug they are trying to replace. Despite recent research that has established that Pradaxa and Xarelto carry a significant increase in... Read more »

When is paying $2.2 billion ever a bargain? According to University of Michigan professor and class action settlement expert Eric Gordon, Japanese drug giant Takeda’s decision to offer one of the largest drug settlements in US history to settle 8,ooo pending lawsuits against it may be just that. Actos users... Read more »

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has relied in recent years on The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System, also known as FAERS, to generate data for its QuarterWatch drug safety reports. FAERS is the federal government’s primary watchdog program for identifying adverse patient events from... Read more »

A California resident is the most recent complainant in the ongoing federal court battle against Fresenius Medical Care (FMC), the world’s largest dialysis services and products company. Mr. Ronnie Miller, the Plaintiff, is the anticipated Administrator of the estate of Lula Brown, who died of sudden cardiac arrest in December,... Read more »

Allegations by a former Daiichi Sankyo sales representative against her ex-employer have resulted in the global pharmaceutical titan agreeing to pay a $39 million settlement to the United States and state Medicaid programs. The former rep filed suit on behalf of the United States under the whistle blower provisions of... Read more »

In what is likely a precursor to the Food and Drug Administration taking regulatory action on low testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), the FDA has asked two advisory committees to meet on September 17 to evaluate the risks and reported testosterone side effects linked to so-called “Low T” drugs, such as AndroGel, Testim,... Read more »

The father of a twenty-nine year old New York resident, now deceased, is the plaintiff in a Propecia cognitive dysfunction lawsuit brought against the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. for allegedly causing the wrongful death of his son. The suit was filed June 27, 2014 in United States District Court... Read more »