pharmaceutical injuries’
Report Shows Americans Continue to Be at Risk from Defective Foreign-Manufactured Drugs
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
A report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that the Food and Drug Administration has made little progress in addressing the problem of infrequent and insufficient inspections of foreign drug manufacturing facilities.
Many of the drugs that Americans now consume are manufactured in plants in China, India and other foreign countries. The Food and Drug Administration has devoted precious few resources to inspecting these plants. The biggest scandal related to spurious drugs manufactured in foreign plants was Baxter’s heparin scandal of 2008. Contaminated heparin manufactured at a plant in China was linked to several deaths
The GAO released a...
Americans Want Safer Medications
Friday, August 27th, 2010
According to a new survey, most Americans support enhanced drug safety, to the point where they would support stronger laws for it. In fact, 81% of Americans say they would support a law that would place strong new drug safety measures in place.
The survey has very interesting findings for Texas product liability lawyers. According to the survey, 86% of men and 91% of men support stronger legislation proposed to enhance drug safety in the country. The proposed legislation is called the Drug Safety and Accountability Act, and is meant to increase consumer safeguards to keep Americans...
Accutane Injury Litigation Takes on a Hollywood Edge
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Pharmaceutical company Roche’s anti-acne medication Accutane has been the subject of thousands of personal injury lawsuits. Most of these lawsuits have centered on the allegation that Accutane causes inflammatory bowel disease. The latest Accutane-related lawsuit that Roche will come up against however, will have a Hollywood tinge. The plaintiff in this lawsuit is a Hollywood actor, who claims that his acting career suffered as a result of injuries from Accutane usage.
The plaintiff here is actor James Marshall who acted in the hit 1992 next movie “A Few Good Men. ” Marshall had been taking Accutane for acne,...
FDA Recommends Avandia Be Withdrawn from Market
Monday, July 19th, 2010
An FDA panel this week recommended that Glaxo's anti diabetes drug, Avandia be either withdrawn from the market, or that the ageny place restrictions on its use. It was a major blow to GlaxoSmithKline, but not entirely unexpexpected to Houston injury lawyers, given that Glaxo had come under such criticism from an FDA ofcial last week.
The report by the Food And Drug Administration official had strong criticism for a clinical trial conducted by GlaxoSmithKline to show that it's anti-diabetes drug is safe for use by consumers. Avandia has been at the center of a major medical storm,...
