Category: Legal Case Updates
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April 2010 Accutane Update: More Medical Evidence Follows A Large Trial Verdict For Drug Injury Victim
New Study Finds Increased Risk Of Developing Ulcerative Colitis; New Jersey Jury Decides Accutane Caused Man's Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) _____________________________________________________________________ Update: Roche Wins Reversal of $10.5 Million Accutane…
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YAZ, Yasmin, Ocella: 1,100 Lawsuits Filed As Of Mid-February 2010, According To Bayer
Company Annual Report 2009: "Bayer believes that it has meritorious defenses and intends to defend itself vigorously." (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) The Bayer Annual Report for 2009, at page 243, provides some updated…
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February 2010: Levaquin MDL Bellwether, Or Test, Cases Selected For First Trials
Six Plaintiffs Selected From Among The 300 Levaquin Lawsuits Filed To Date In Federal Court System (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) At a February 12, 2010 Status Conference, U.S. District Judge John R.…
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GE Healthcare Seemingly Tries To Intimidate And Silence A Critic Of Its Omniscan Product
Drug Company Files Libel Lawsuit In UK Against Prominent Danish Radiologist Henrik Thomsen (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) The Sunday Times (UK) recently ran a story that demonstrates how Britain's libel laws are possibly…
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Digitek Federal Court MDL Judge Sets Joint Hearing To Address Scientific And Technical Issues For October 2010
Judge Goodwin Will Be Joined By State Court Judges Overseeing Digitek Consolidations In New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, And West Virginia At This Daubert Hearing (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) On December 18, 2009…
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October 2009: Yasmin And Yaz Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Transfer Order For Injury And Death Cases Filed In Federal Court
MDL No. 2100 — IN RE: Yasmin and Yaz (Drospirenone) Marketing and Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation — Assigned To Southern District of Illinois (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) _____________________________________________________________________ UPDATE: Our Focus…
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Drug-Company Sponsored Ghostwriters Are Getting Busted By Some Medical Journals
Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA) Adds Newly Released Wyeth Ghostwriting Documents In September 2009 (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) A September 18, 2009 article, "Medical Editors Push for Crackdown on Ghostwriting", published by…
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September 2009 Update On Paxil Lawsuits Alleging Birth Defects
Reports About Paxil Cases In Boston, Philadelphia, And Mississippi (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) To set the stage we start back in December 2005, when the FDA issued a News Release titled "FDA…