That is the question both the state of Massachusetts and the Food and Drug Administration will be required to answer as the death toll rises to 14 with 170 sickened in 23 states from a contaminated steroid injection. As it turns out both state and federal agencies can regulate the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now say more people may have received a contaminated steroid injection than previously thought. Up to 14,000 patients may be at risk in this unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis, which could have an incubation time of up to three months. The latest […]
A follow-up of patients who received hip replacement surgery by the National Joint Registry of England and Wales has researchers issuing an ominous warning – women are strongly urged to avoid the hip replacement procedure known as “resurfacing,” according to a published report in the British medical journal, The Lancet. […]
Compounding Pharmacies The controversy over the fungal meningitis outbreak that is traced to contaminated steroid injections has brought compounding pharmacies under the spotlight. This is not the first time. A compounding pharmacy mixes drugs for use by hospitals and clinics. Often they make up for a shortfall in drugs, as […]
Where, oh where does clinical trial data go? Earlier this year, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) wrote that a large proportion of evidence from human clinical trials goes missing while cherry-picked favorable data appears. According to the BMJ, fewer than half of the data from clinical trials run using National […]
Victims of transvaginal mesh have additional time to file a product liability action. Rulings in multidistrict litigation (MDL) have extended the discovery time deadlines in the pre-trial process and pushed back a deadline for the lawsuits to begin. The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, in the Southern District of West […]
This is a tough one to believe. A Minneapolis doctor issued a press release going on the attack against plaintiffs’ lawyers who are representing women seriously injured by synthetic mesh used to treat prolapse and incontinence Dr. Jon Nielsen doesn’t let the facts get in the way. Nielsen, a doctor […]
Cal Warriner of the Mass Torts Unit of Searcy Denney will be speaking this week at the Plaintiff Forum on Pharmaceutical Litigation: Transvaginal Mesh, Actos and Orthopedic Devices. The conference will be held on Friday of this week (October 5, 2012) at Le Méridien in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cal will be […]
With all of the bad news coming out about the dangers of defective synthetic transvaginal mesh made of polypropylene used to treat prolapse and incontinence as well as the thousands of lawsuits waiting to be heard in state and federal courts filed by severely injured women looking to regain their […]
There is no doubt that we at Searcy Denney are seeing more and more cases of bone fractures that are occurring among women taking bisphosphonates to treat osteoporosis and osteopenia. But there may be even more cases out there that are going unreported. The authors of this article, William Ward […]
