Posted March 18, 2012 on Lawyers & Settlements St. Louis, MO: The recent filing of a Zoloft birth defects lawsuit underscores the pain, heartbreak and frustration evident in the plaintiffs—parents of innocent children who came into the world saddled with life-altering defects allegedly at the behest of the SSRI antidepressant, Zoloft. It is no secret Full Article…
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Children with Paxil Related Birth Defects May See Lawsuit Settlement Count Rise
Posted March 16, 2012 by PRWeb Orlando, FL (PRWEB) March 16, 2012 In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning that antidepressant drugs with a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor such as Paxil could put children at risk of birth defects if taken by pregnant mothers. Estimates are in the millions of at-risk Full Article…
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GSK to pay $40.75 Million to 37 States
Posted June 24, 2011 on Domain-B GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) and SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc yesterday agreed to pay $40.75 million to 37 US states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations on selling substandard antidepressants and other medicines produced at its former Puerto Rico factory in the early 2000′s. The 37 states had Full Article…
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Antidepressants Taken During Pregnancy And Birth Defects
Posted June 6, 2011 on Michael Shaw While this subject is by no means a new one, the resurgence of TV commercials touting the relevant expertise of various plaintiff’s attorneys inspired this article. (HealthNewsDigest.com) – Ever since the Thalidomide catastrophe of the late 1950s, whereby a sedative drug used during pregnancy for morning sickness—largely in Full Article…
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Paxil Birth Defects Could Have Been Avoided
Posted March 10, 2011 on Paxil Lawsuit Paxil Birth Defects – Paxil is a branded medication that was launched in 1992 by GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical company for treatments of patients suffering from depression, anxiety, or other mental disorders. The drug soon became very famous- not for alleviating pain but for its side effects, among which Paxil Full Article…
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Study: Patients Are Taking Antidepressants without a Diagnosis
Posted February 25, 2011 on Heidi Turner Winnipeg, Canada: When it comes to dealing with SSRI/Paxil side effects, it is one thing to take an antidepressant to treat depression, knowing that you could face a risk of SSRI/Paxil birth defects. It is an entirely different matter, however, to expose yourself to a risk of SSRI Full Article…
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New DePuy Hip Implant Receives FDA Clearance
Posted February 26, 2011 on LAS Newswire Warsaw, IN: With DePuy hip replacement lawsuits piling up in Canada and the US, the unit of Johnson & Johnson recently received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for use of a new titanium foam in two new implant systems. The DePuy GRIPTION TF Acetabular Full Article…
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Growing Darvocet Litigation May Resemble Billion Dollar Tidal Wave Against Fen-Phen
Posted February 19, 2011 on Lance Andrews Darvocet lawsuits continue to mount in US courts, with experts comparing the massive scope of the litigation to that of the popular diet pill Fen-phen. Like Darvocet, Fen-phen was linked to serious heart problems before it was taken off the market in 1997. By that time, 6 million Full Article…
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Depuy Hip Lawsuits Heating Up in Canada
Posted February 22, 2011 on Jane Mundy Saint John, New Brunswick: Several DePuy hip replacement victims in New Brunswick are the latest Canadians to join the DePuy Lawsuit against DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The company recalled its ASR series hip implants last August after receiving reports of patients requiring revision surgery Full Article…
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The Deadly History of Darvon and Darvocet
Posted February 22, 2011 on Sara Goldstein The prescription painkillers Darvon and Darvocet both contain the same opiate drug dextropropoxyphene, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a postoperative pain reliever in 1957. Darvocet also contains the NSAID drug acetaminophen. For the next five decades, evidence that these two drugs were dangerous, Full Article…
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