Dr Shezad Malik Law Firm is expanding their initiatives focused on identifying recipients of metal-on-metal hip implants, that has failed, or are in the process of failing. While one specific type of metal-on-metal hip implant called the DePuy ASR has been recalled, the group expects there to be many more…
European drug regulators are demanding new kidney damage warnings for Tekturna and other drugs containing the active ingredient aliskiren. The new warnings and contraindications were announced by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) last week. Tekturna (aliskiren) is manufactured by Novartis and was first approved in the United States in 2007…
Aimee L. Flynn, from Pennsylvania, has filed a lawsuit over NuvaRing. Flynn suffered a stroke that was allegedly caused by the popular birth control ring. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on February 3. Flynn used the Nuva Ring contraceptive from…
Dr Shezad Malik Law Firm is investigating NuvaRing Lawsuit Claims due to side effects that may include blood clots, Deep Vein Thrombosis, Pulmonary Embolism, Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Wrongful Death. Read our latest filed NuvaRing lawsuit here. We have many more NuvaRing lawsuits in the preparation phase for filing. Dr…
Federal regulators in the United States had serious safety concerns about one variation of a recalled DePuy hip implant. Johnson & Johnson nevertheless went ahead and sold thousands of the devices in Europe, before later acknowledging that all versions of the ASR hip implant may be prone to early failure.…
A new medical study suggests that side effects of Pradaxa, a new blood thinner, may increase the risk of bleeding events even more than warfarin, the drug it was designed to replace. Kansas researchers tested the use of Pradaxa during radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation and discovered more than double…
New Jersey state court lawsuits over Accutane and generic versions have been consolidated as a mass tort in Atlantic County before Judge Carol Higbee, and the number of complaints filed in the state has more than doubled over the last year. There are now more than 7,000 Accutane lawsuits pending…
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has ordered that all federal Wright Conserve hip replacement lawsuits be transferred to one judge for coordinated pre-trial proceedings as part of an MDL, or multidistrict litigation. The U.S. JPML centralized the Wright Conserve hip litigation before U.S. District Judge William S.…
A new medical study has found that the anti-clotting drug Xarelto could have less of a risk of causing a stroke than older blood thinners, but the drug appears to share of the same risks as Pradaxa. The study, which was funded by Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturers of the…
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has decided to create three new multidistrict litigations (MDLs) for all vaginal mesh lawsuits. These lawsuits involve products manufactured by American Medical Systems, Inc. (AMS), Boston Scientific Corp. and Ethicon, Inc. The new MDLs will be centralized in the Southern District of West…