A mother suffered severe nausea during her pregnancy. She listened to her doctor’s recommendation to take Zofran, an anti-nausea drug that doctors sometimes prescribe off-label to treat morning sickness. The…
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Settling Yaz and Yasmin lawsuits in the Yaz and Yasmin multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a slow process, a fact recently expressed by the federal judge managing the MDL. It appears…
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Israeli women who have suffered injuries, such as blood clots and pulmonary embolism, from the use of the birth control pill Yasmin are standing up against Bayer. These women have…
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A plaintiff who suffered from more than one pulmonary embolism filed a Yaz lawsuit in a federal court in Texas in late December. According to The Southeast Texas Record, the…
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A Chicago jury awarded a 37 year old woman $14 million after hearing that she suffered a life-altering stroke while using the contraceptive drug Yasmin for less than two weeks.…
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A woman who suffered Mirena IUD complications wants other women who use this intrauterine contraceptive device to get frequent checkups. The woman, plagued for years with chronic pain, shared her…
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In 2012, C.R. Bard faced its first transvaginal mesh lawsuit. The trial took place in a California court, and resulted in the jury deciding to award the plaintiff $5.5 million.…
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Surgical operations strike fear in some patients; before the procedure, they worry about what could go wrong. A new study shows that less can go wrong with surgeons who’ve performed…
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A report published in May 2014 by the Minneapolis newspaper, Star Tribune, highlighted the risks of using transvaginal mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI).…
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Members of the Scottish Parliament's petition committee recently received evidence from an American lawyer, which included the comparison of transvaginal mesh devices to asbestos. The BBC quoted the lawyer as…
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