The first DePuy hip implant trial is currently underway and is revealing damaging information about the company’s actions concerning the metal-on-metal hip implant system which resulted in the 2010 recall of nearly 100,000 units. Recent testimony showed that DePuy’s president met with a California hip surgeon just months before the recall but never told the […]
Year: 2013
The Driscoll Firm, LLC is representing 38 plaintiffs named in the lawsuit filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court in Illinois, alleging that the manufacturer of Actos failed to warn of an increased risk of bladder cancer associated with the diabetes medication. St. Louis, MO (Vocus/PRWEB) February 23, 2013 – Nationally recognized drug injury lawyer […]
Organon Pharmaceutical’s NuvaRing, a “third generation” of birth control, advertises that it contains a lower dose of hormones than other oral contraceptives. However, while oral contraceptives – such as birth control pills – lose up to half of their hormones in the body’s digestive tract, NuvaRing hormones are absorbed directly into the bloodstream. So, is […]
A Coloplast transvaginal mesh injury lawsuit recently filed by a woman who was seriously injured by the company’s Aris Transobturator Sling System alleges that the product is poorly designed and defective. She joins a host of other women, and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), who say that transvaginal mesh manufacturers need to do […]
Although NuvaRing, Merck & Company’s vaginal contraceptive device, is most commonly linked to Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), Pulmonary Embolism (PE) and Metrorrhagia, hundreds of other injuries have also been reported. Some of the most recent NuvaRing injury reports include Cardiac Failure, Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) and Cholelithiasis. NuvaRing Side Effects According to the U.S. Food […]
Details in the first DePuy hip replacement lawsuit trial shed more light into why the medical device giant failed to recall its defective ASR hip implants sooner. A recently released deposition of DePuy’s President, Andrew Ekdahl, casts even more doubt on the company’s concerns for safety. Devices Allegedly Not Recalled For Safety Reasons According to […]
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceutical’s Mirena IUD increases the risk of ectopic pregnancy – a life-threatening condition to a mother and a fatal condition for her child. The issue is at the core of a Mirena injury lawsuit recently filed against the pharmaceutical giant. Latest Mirena IUD Injury Lawsuit The latest Mirena intrauterine device injury lawsuit filed […]
The Driscoll Firm, LLC is now reviewing cases involving the illness in infants who were given a formula thickening additive that is being looked at by the FDA for a link to a potentially deadly intestinal disease. St. Louis, MO (Vocus/PRWEB) February 16, 2013 – Nationally recognized defective medical products lawyer John J. Driscoll announced […]
Members of British Parliament are seeking a criminal investigation into why DePuy did not warn thousands of British citizens about the very real possibility of developing metallosis. The news comes at a very bad time for the medical device manufacturer which recently began defending the first of 10,000 ASR hip failure lawsuits in the United […]
NuvaRing, Merck & Company’s contraceptive vaginal device has been linked to over 5,400 adverse reporting events – many of which were life threatening and required hospitalization. According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 30% of NuvaRing injuries resulted in women being hospitalized – some for prolonged periods. 1,630 Women Hospitalized For NuvaRing Injuries According […]