Dangerous Drugs

As a pharmaceutical liability attorney, I’ve written about illegal “off-label” marketing for several drugs, including drugs that turned out to have dangerous and serious side effects. A drug is used…

As a pharmaceutical liability attorney, I’ve written here a few times before about the potential for a rare but very serious reaction to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, a class of painkillers…

As a pharmaceutical injury lawyer, I was interested to see a recent opinion reminding victims of drug injuries that they need to file their claims quickly — because drug companies…

As a dangerous drug attorney I’ve written in this space about some of the dangers of the acne drug Accutane. Accutane is available only by tightly controlled prescriptions, in part…

In December, I noted that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could open up the field to more lawsuits against the makers of generic drugs that…

As a pharmaceutical liability attorney, I was interested to see the beginning of the second U.S. trial in a Foxamax injury case. As Bloomberg News reported April 7, Bernadette Glynn…

Nearly seven months after the drug Phenergan was the center of a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Food and Drug Administration has required a black box warning for the…

As a pharmaceutical liability attorney, I was interested in a report that Astra Zeneca has settled 17,500 lawsuits at a cost of $198 million over complaints that it failed to…

As a dangerous drug attorney, I’ve written multiple posts in this space about recalls of over-the-counter medicines made by McNeil Pharmaceuticals. The company, a division of Johnson & Johnson, makes…

I was interested to see that the FDA has announced that it is cracking down on unapproved uses of chelation drugs. These drugs, which bind to and remove heavy metals…