GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, begins a trial in Philadelphia in what may be a test case for more than 600 lawsuits over claims its antidepressant drug Paxil causes birth defects. Patients and their parents claim internal company documents produced for trial show Glaxo failed to warn about the…
Makers of injected promethazine, a sedative also used to treat nausea and vomiting, are being required to put the strongest warning possible on the product because it can cause tissue damage leading to amputation, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. The drug, previously sold by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. under…
GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, withheld birth-defect data tied to its antidepressant drug Paxil from physicians as the number of reports grew, a psychiatrist testified. Doctors seeking information about birth defects linked to Paxil originally got the total numbers of side-effect reports about the issue from Glaxo, Dr. David…
An executive of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world’s second-biggest drugmaker, talked about burying negative studies linking its antidepressant drug Paxil to birth defects, according to a company memo introduced at a trial. “If neg, results can bury,” Glaxo executive Bonnie Rossello wrote in a 1997 memo on what the company would…
GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s e-mail with researchers studying birth defects allegedly caused by the drugmaker’s antidepressant Paxil must be turned over to a family suing over the drug. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner in Boston refused to block William Seale’s family from reviewing e-mails and other communications between Glaxo and Boston University…
U.S. health regulators have warned drugmaker Bayer over quality control issues at a plant that makes the key ingredient in Yaz and other popular birth control drugs. In a warning letter posted online Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration said its inspectors uncovered testing problems at the company’s plant in…
After years of legal wrangling, a 12-year-old Eureka, Utah boy who suffered brain damage at birth is a step closer to getting money to help compensate for his injuries. The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled an insurance company cannot invalidate the medical malpractice policy of the obstetrician who made…
A lawsuit alleging that Merck & Co’s osteoporosis drug Fosamax caused jaw damage ended in a mistrial on Friday . U.S. District Judge John Keenan declared the mistrial two days giving the New York jury considering the case a “cooling off period” in light of supposed acrimony among jurors. A…
The Kugel Mesh Patch, a medical device that was commonly used in surgeries to repair hernias, was recalled in 2005, 2006, and again in 2007 after patients suffered painful bowel perforations and other chronic injuries. The patch, placed inside the body following hernia-repair surgery to prevent tearing or the formation…
Relatives of a Texas musician who died in 2007 after acting bizarrely while taking the smoking-cessation drug Chantix have filed a lawsuit against the drug’s maker, Pfizer, accusing the company of failing to warn of suicidal thoughts and other dangerous psychiatric side effects associated with the medication. The death of…