As a Medical Device Product Liability attorney and board certified medical doctor, I am providing this important update regarding Cochlear Implants. Cochlear Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of hearing implants, an Australian company, recalled its latest range of devices after a recent, unexplained increase in failures. The voluntary recall of…
According to the FDA, silicone oil is the cause of problems with Aviara contact lenses sold by CooperVision, which were removed from the market in August after a number of consumers suffered torn corneas, hazy vision and other potentially serious complications. Nearly two months after problems were first announced, contact…
As a Yaz Birth Control Coma and Blindness Injury attorney and Texas medical doctor I am providing this YAZ, Yasmin and Ocella update. ABC’s chief law and justice correspondent, Chris Cuomo, interviews Carissa Ubersox, a former pediatric nurse who started taking Bayer’s Yaz birth control pills when she wanted to…
As a Dallas Medtronic Infuse Lawsuit and side effect attorney and medical doctor I am providing this update regarding the problems associated withe Medtronic Infuse medical product. Medtronic, a medical device company is in the news regarding reports about its synthetic bone growth product Infuse. In 2008, the U.S. Department…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As a DePuy ASR and DePuy Pinnacle litigation attorney, I am providing this timely update. More than 500 lawsuits have been filed in Northern District of Texas federal court over DePuy Pinnacle hip replacements problems. The plaintiffs have…
As a DePuy ASR Hip Recall attorney I am providing this update. There is a problem with metal on metal artificial hip implant devices, as highlighted on the NBC Nightly News on October 4th 2011. According to medical experts and bio-engineers, the DePuy ASR, and DePuy Pinnacle hip implants are…
Merck said today that a federal court jury in New York found in its favor in the Secrest v. Merck case, rejecting the claim of a Florida woman who blamed her dental and jaw-related problems on her FOSAMAX use. Chilton Varner of King & Spalding LLP, outside counsel for Merck…
As an Actos Bladder Cancer Product Liability attorney and Texas medical doctor, I am providing this update regarding the status of a MDL consolidation request. Takeda Pharmaceuticals the manufacturer of Actos and their defense attorneys have indicated that the drug maker supports a request to have all federal Actos bladder…
As a DePuy ASR and Pinnacle Replacement and Recall attorney I am providing this blog update. As readers to my blog will note, I am a licensed Texas medical doctor as well as a product liability attorney. We are currently fielding many phone calls from concerned hip replacement patients and…
A lawsuit has been filed against AstraZeneca by two Texans who allege that Nexium caused them to suffer bone fracture side effects. The complaint was filed by Mary Mai Nguyen and Tuoc Duong on September 15 in Harris County, Texas against AstraZeneca. According to the Nexium lawsuit, the defendants failed…