Posted March 30, 2011 on LawsuitInformation.org
One of a family’s worst nightmares is for an innocent child to be born with birth defects threatening their life or well being. And many have been subjected to this nightmare due to a defective drug: the antidepressant Paxil.
When a pregnant woman takes Paxil while pregnant, particularly during the first 3 months, her baby is a great deal more sure to suffer one or more of a spread of birth defect injuries as a result. Such birth problems include injuries to the heart, lungs, brain, backbone, limbs, abdominal wall, urinary tract and gastrointestinal system.
Such wounds may need surgery or perhaps repeated surgeries to fix, especially heart birth defects. And these surgeries place a serious price on families, both financially and emotionally. Now, such families are fighting back thru the legal arena. They’re pressing paxil lawsuits, including paxil birth defect claims, against the defective drug’s manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK.
Based in Britain, GSK has reaped uncountable billions of bucks in profits via its defective drug, Paxil. And it did so while aware that many harmful Paxil side-effects were afflicting many who were exposed to the drug even newborn children.
Sadly, Paxil remains available, despite the damage that it has done and continues to do. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed warnings on the product’s labels, however it still can be prescribed for patients as an antidepressant. This frequently happens because many women suffer depression during their pregnancy. They then turn to anti-depressants for relief.
But Paxil can exact a terribly high price, including such heart defects as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Transposition of the Great Arteries, Interrupted Aortic Arch, Coarctation of the Aorta, Pulmonary Stenosis, Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Atrial Septal Defect, Ventricular Septal Defect, Aortic Insufficiency and Heart Murmur.
Other Paxil birth defects include injuries to the backbone like Neural Tube Defects or Spina Bifida. Paxil birth defects of the lungs include Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension, or PPHN.The list keeps going and on. And now, so do Paxil lawsuits against the drug’s culpable manufacturer. In fact, latterly GSK shows signals of settling such birth problem lawsuits, as opposed to waging lengthy court battles.
To proceed with such a litigation against the makers of Paxil, seeking compensation and retribution for sustaining Paxil birth defects, refer to legal counsel that has experience and a proven track record in these types of cases.
