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Paxil side effects, surgeries can spur a Paxil birth defects lawsuit
Many American women have taken antidepressant drug Paxil during their pregnancy. Now many American newborn children are suffering birth defects as a result. Since 2005 Paxil has been shown to have serious side effects in newborn babies, including ailments of the heart, brain, spinal cord, lungs and other vital organs. Such Paxil side effects injuries [...]
Hammer TV offers safety tips as ‘reality TV’ with meaning, message
Each day, Americans are “hammered” with visual messages on TV and the Internet. But how many are trite, and how many are truly useful? Do we really need to know whose kitty can play the piano? Or do we need to know which defective drugs or injury accidents threaten our loved ones?
At Jim S. Adler [...]
Paxil birth defects spur defective drugs lawsuits
For huge pharmaceutical companies which make huge profits, settling a defective drugs lawsuit for millions of dollars may be considered a satisfactory trade-off given such drugs’ billions of dollars in revenues. In fact, some pharmaceutical giants even market drugs which are known to be dangerous, content with a bottom-line strategy of profits at any costs [...]
Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella defective drugs cause heart attacks, blood clots, strokes — even death
Statistically, young women are among the least likely persons to have high blood pressure, heart attacks, blood clots, strokes and other cardiovascular ailments. Yet many American women are suffering in these ways — and even dying. That’s because they are users of one of three defective drugs sold as birth control pills: Yaz, Yasmin and [...]
Heparin overdose of Quaid twins spurs $500,000 hospital settlement
A year and a half ago, the heparin overdose of actor Dennis Quaid’s twins was big news. The legal settlement just announced in the case isn’t as big of a news story to most media, but it’s also very significant.
The Associated Press reports that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has offered a $500,000 settlement [...]
When drug giants err, as with Reglan, an Adler defective drugs lawyer can help
Americans don’t like being at anyone’s mercy, but that’s clearly the case with the pharmaceutical giants which create and sell drugs to millions of us, making billions of dollars in the process. Such drugs aren’t always fully vetted by such corporations or by government watchdog the Food and Drug Administration. As a result, many innocent [...]
You’re injured — what time is it? It’s HAMMER TIME
Your car was just rear-ended by a distracted motorist blabbing on his cell phone and now — through no fault of your own — you’ve got bills to pay for damages. What time is it? It’s HAMMER TIME.
You’ve waited months for your insurance company to make good on its policy and pay for your property [...]
Quaid’s heparin ordeal underscores need for a heparin lawsuit
For Houston-born actor Dennis Quaid, star of Disney’s The Rookie, The Alamo and The Parent Trap, the pain of almost losing his twin children to a heparin overdose remains quite real. On today’s Oprah Winfrey Show, a tape revealed Quaid on an emotional visit to the Los Angeles hospital where the near-tragedy occurred, and he [...]
Consumers win big in Wyeth vs. Levine defective drug ruling
Pharmaceutical giants took a huge hit Wednesday, while American consumers won an enormous victory, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Wyeth vs. Levine. And now, justice can be done.
The 6-3 Supreme Court decision held that pharmaceutical companies cannot be shielded from liability because the Food and Drug Administration or other federal agencies erred [...]
Defective drug Raptiva threatens psoriasis patients
As many as seven million Americans suffer psoriasis, a condition causing inflammation and red scaly patches on the skin, as well as psoriatic plaques on the knees and elbows. An autoimmune disease, Psoriasis can be treated, but it can’t be cured.
Unfortunately, one such treatment may be worse than psoriasis itself. That treatment is the medication [...]
