March is National Kidney Month
Information and graphics provided by kidney.org: Kidney Health Facts: The kidneys are the body’s chemical factories, filtering waste and performing vital functions that control things like red blood cell production and blood pressure. But over time, the kidneys can become damaged with little or no physical symptoms to warn you...
Continue ReadingBloomberg Business: The FDA Recall System is Voluntary and Broken
Bloomberg Business recently published a comprehensive look at how patients suffer when drug manufacturers and regulators fail to protect them and effectively recall dangerous drugs from their medicine cabinets. For the past 25 years, the experienced drug injury lawyers at Cory Watson have helped thousands of victims hurt because of...
Continue ReadingJune is Men’s Health Awareness Month
June is the time to celebrate the men in our lives. It's also recognized as National Men’s Health Awareness Month! June is a great time to get a checkup, address nagging health issues, or learn more about the health of men that you love and respect. Use these tips to...
Continue ReadingPurdue Will No Longer Promote OxyContin to Doctors
The drugmaker at the center of America’s opioid crisis is halting one of the practices that helped cause an epidemic of addiction and death. Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the powerful opioid painkiller OxyContin, announced that it would no longer promote opioid drugs to physicians and has laid off more...
Continue ReadingUrgent Recall Issued for Contaminated Synvisc-One Arthritis Knee Injections
Sanofi Genzyme has initiated an urgent recall of Synvisc-One®, an injected hyaluronic acid gel for treating arthritis in knees. A lot containing 18,000 syringes of Synvisc-One tested positive for microbial contamination and has been linked to increased health risks and hospitalization. If you were injected with one of the contaminated...
Continue ReadingWhat You Need to Know About Opioid Drug Lawsuits
Opioid use in the United States has reached epidemic levels. Opioids are highly addictive and dangerous, but have been increasingly prescribed over the past two decades. In July 2017, President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis declared that opioids were killing roughly 142 people in the...
Continue ReadingEliquis® Lawsuits Consolidated Into MDL
Eliquis® (apixaban) is the latest of the new-age blood thinners to have lawsuits against its manufacturers (Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer) consolidated into a multi-district litigation (MDL). On February 7, 2017, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation agreed to centralize the Eliquis lawsuits before Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District...
Continue ReadingHeartburn Medication Linked to Kidney Failure
Nexium, Prevacid, Prilosec, Protonix, AciPhex and Zegerid are in a class of drugs called Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) that are widely prescribed to treat heartburn, acid reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in millions of Americans. These common medications are available over-the-counter or by prescription. Research published in the Journal of...
Continue ReadingTaxotere® Linked to Permanent Hair Loss
American women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than any other form of cancer. And when women undergo chemotherapy while fighting the disease, they are often given Taxotere®, an injectable drug. While most patients are told to expect temporary hair loss during their treatment, some cancer survivors...
Continue ReadingPopular Heartburn Medications Linked to Kidney Injury
More than 15 million Americans currently rely on proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs to relieve heartburn and acid reflux caused by excessive acid produced by the stomach. Stomach acid can cause irritation in patients, and PPI drugs aim to reduce production of stomach acid to reduce irritation. PPIs are the...
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