FDA & Prescription Drugs

• Update on Actos' Link To Bladder Cancer and Other Related Dangerous Drugs

  M. Brandon Smith | April 07, 2013 2:18 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  A leading diabetes treatment drug, Actos, has been the subject of heightened interest recently due to its being implicated in an increased incidence of bladder cancer among patients taking...

• Update: Actos Cases Linked To Bladder Cancer Set For First MDL Trial

  M. Brandon Smith | April 05, 2013 2:05 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  A group of lawsuits that contend the diabetes drug, Actos, carries an increased risk of bladder cancer are set for an initial trial in Louisiana beginning in 2014. In December, the U.S....

• New MDL Created For Pradaxa Injury Cases

  M. Brandon Smith | April 04, 2013 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  The number of lawsuits involving Pradaxa internal bleeding claims has increased so dramatically that the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation created an MDL to...

• Yaz, transvaginal mesh on clinical trial

  Steve Thomas | April 04, 2013 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Clinical trials under way in the U.S. and abroad may pour data into the reservoir of research conducted on the efficacy and adverse reactions of the transvaginal mesh and of the combination oral...

• Federal Tylenol Lawsuits Heading to Pennsylvania

  Shezad Malik MD JD | April 03, 2013 9:26 PM | 0 CommentsDallas-Fort Worth, TX

  All federal Tylenol liver failure lawsuits are going to be centralized in federal multidistrict litigation (MDL). The MDL has been established for lawsuits filed in U.S. District Courts before...

• Can You Die From Januvia Pancreatic Cancer?

  Shezad Malik MD JD | April 03, 2013 8:40 PM | 0 CommentsDallas-Fort Worth, TX

  Can You Die From Januvia Pancreatic Cancer? The short answer is; it depends. Some 25 to 30 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 80 million folks have medical condition known as...

• Zoloft, other SSRIs remain birth defect suspects

  Steve Thomas | April 03, 2013 12:02 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration OKd Feb. 1 adding “diabetes mellitus” to the safety labeling of Zoloft (sertraline), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant. The...

• Actos and bladder cancer: everything old is new again

  Steve Thomas | April 02, 2013 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  “Use of the diabetes medication Actos (pioglitazone) for more than one year may be associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug...

• Australian study links seizure drugs to birth defects

  Steve Thomas | April 01, 2013 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Researchers in Australia reaffirmed the link between birth defects and fetal exposure to a pair of seizure-treatment medications that are the subjects of litigation. U.S. pharmaceutical...

• Voluntary Recall of All OneTouch Verio IQ Blood Glucose Meters

  Chrissie Cole | April 01, 2013 7:22 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Two million Onetouch Verio Blood Sugar Meters have been recalled by LifeScan, a division of Johnson & Johnson, due to a defect that was discovered in the reading system of the monitors. ...