Defective Drugs
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Heparin remains a lethal threat
Again, the blood thinner heparin is in the news – and it’s not good news.
Fourteen babies in a Corpus Christi hospital recently received an accidental heparin overdose. Two of the babies – twins — have died. Several have been discharged, while the others are being closely monitored.
This tragedy recalls the highly publicized event last November [...]
