New Medications Meet Unmet Patient Needs The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of 41 novel new drugs in 2014 made it a banner year for the pharmaceutical industry. The class of 2014 included biologicals, drugs that treat cancer and infectious diseases (bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral) and therapeutic drugs. The […]
Author: Cal Warriner
In January 2011, Martha Salazar was implanted with the Obtryx, which was manufactured by Boston Scientific. Following the surgery, she asserts that she had experienced dyspareunia, pain, and nerve damage. She has undergone multiple surgeries to remove the polypropylene mesh and walks with a limp due to her right hip […]
Judge Goodwin is presiding over seven different federal multidistrict litigation established for similar cases filed against various medical device manufacturers, including American Medical Systems, Boston Scientific, Coloplast Corp., Cook Medical, Ethicon , C.R. Bard, and Neomedic. Each of the complaints involves allegations by women who experienced painful complications following the […]
Debra Kilmer filed suit against Stryker Corporation, Stryker Sales Corporation and Howmedica Osteonics Corporation (“Defendants”), asserting that she had been injured by a defective knee implanted in her in Florida state court. Defendants removed the action to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida citing diversity […]
Several plaintiffs that were implanted with Boston Scientific’s Obtryx transobturator Mid-Urethral Sling System alleged in their lawsuits that the manufacturer, Boston Scientific, ignored warning that devices containing polypropylene should not be implanted in humans. These plaintiffs assert that Boston Scientific was aware that the polypropylene used in the Obtryx device […]
Marketing study after marketing study shows mobile is the future for all industries – “big pharma” included. But marketing study after marketing study also shows drug companies fall far behind in making their Web sites compatible with smartphones, tablets and other devices. One-third of Web sites belonging to 150 leading […]
A Short History Viagra (sildenafil) was a breakthrough in the pharmaceutical world when it was first researched and released to the public. Never before had a pill been able to produce an erection. A groundbreaking (and likely very uncomfortable) presentation at the 1983 Urodynamics Society conference in Las Vegas […]
Popular testosterone-replacement drugs have been called into question by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, which has voted in favor of restricting their use to men with medically related low testosterone. Currently, the drugs are marketed mainly to men with age-related low testosterone as a relatively quick and painless […]
Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (“Stryker Orthopaedics”), a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation, and Court-appointed committees of attorneys representing Rejuvenate Modular-Neck and ABG II Modular-Neck plaintiffs in New Jersey Multicounty and Federal Multidistrict litigations announced a Settlement Agreement. The lawsuits stem from two hip implants that Stryker recalled due to corrosion and other […]
Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer found in humans, and is also the fifth most common type of cancer. In 2014, it is estimated that nearly 76,100 new cases of melanoma will be diagnosed in the United States, with around 9,710 patients dying from the disease. Melanoma […]
