A Risperdal lawsuit that was pending in a Philadelphia court resulted in a mixed outcome for the plaintiff. The 19-year-old man filed the lawsuit against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, claiming that the defendants’ medication resulted in the abnormal growth of breast tissue. On Friday, March 20, the... Read more »

A new testosterone therapy lawsuit has been filed by a Georgia couple over the heart attack suffered by the husband while he was taking Axiron, a testosterone replacement treatment produced by Eli Lilly. The complaint was filed by plaintiffs David T. Bowden and Judy Bowden of Polk County, GA on March... Read more »

The diabetes drug Actos has been named in several thousand product liability lawsuits across the United States. Accordingly, the cases have been consolidated pursuant to the rules of multidistrict litigation (MDL) – a process which funnels near-identical civil lawsuits into a single litigation tract for purposes of eliminating duplicative routine... Read more »

A mother of two young children has filed a Zofran lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) alleging that the anti-nausea medication led to both of her children’s serious health problems. The Minnesota mother filed her lawsuit on behalf of herself and her minor children in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern... Read more »

An Axiron lawsuit has been filed over a heart attack death that plaintiffs contend was caused by testosterone replacement therapy. The complaint, filed on March 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, names Janice Ollenburger, individually and on behalf of Jerry Ollenburger, the... Read more »

Heart disease is one of the leading killers of both men and women in the United States, and experts across several medical fields have spent entire careers studying the direct or indirect causes of this destructive and chronic illness. In a recent study conducted by leading endocrinologists, researchers have uncovered... Read more »

In addition to a growing number of cases in the United States, Bayer now faces a Xarelto class action lawsuit in Canada. Plaintiff Betty Samson filed the complaint in Calgary and another is likely to follow in Ontario, where an elderly woman bled to death while taking the drug. The complaint includes... Read more »

A recent study published in the medical journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics evaluated the possibility that the anti-nausea drug, Zofran (ondansetron) might be used to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome. In doing so, the researchers also assessed the possible transfer of the drug from mother to fetus via the placenta. Zofran... Read more »

JAMA Internal Medicine recently published a study by Charles Seife that highlights a profound flaw in how consumers obtain information about clinical drug trials. According to the New York University professor, only 4 percent of questionable practices or violations discovered by health regulators during pharmaceutical trials ever reaches the public.... Read more »

On March 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning on the testosterone heart attack risk for males using supplements to combat low levels of testosterone caused by aging. The FDA has required a labeling change to inform patients and the medical community of the possible increased risk... Read more »