As a St. Louis personal injury lawyer, I noted a recent news report that a 16-year-old girl’s death in the adolescent psychiatric ward of SSM DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton…
The rheumatoid arthritis drug Arava (leflunomide) will now carry a black box warning, the Food and Drug Administration’s most serious warning, to alert patients to the danger of fatal liver…
When actress Natasha Richardson died of a head injury related to a skiing accident last year, she initially thought she was okay. The problem with brain injuries is that they’re…
The legal relationship between the original designers and manufacturers of medications and the companies that produce generic formulations of the drugs remains tenuous. In some cases, patients have been able…
Just more than a year ago, 10 people were killed in a horrific traffic accident on Oklahoma’s Will Rogers Turnpike. Seventy-six-year-old Donald Creed was in his tenth hour of driving…
One of the most difficult concepts in medical lawsuits such as those surrounding the medicine Reglan is that the statute of limitations — a concept that says cases must be…
While there are plenty of reasons to celebrate the recent sweeping settlements between Paxil manufacturer Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and plaintiffs alleging birth defects caused by the medication, not everything…
The modern mass media is a complicated phenomenon, and what predominates is rarely representative of everything going on. For example, right now the news is dominated by events at the…
Gianvi, a repackaged and renamed generic version of Bayer’s flagship contraceptive Yaz, is under scrutiny after its parent company admitted to inappropriate labeling practices. According to Bayer, the company marketing…
A Louisiana couple has filed a lawsuit alleging that the anti-nausea medicine Reglan caused their child to suffer birth defects after the mother was prescribed it during her pregnancy. While…