Drug Injuries Lawyer

Representing the injured, the wronged and their families

The pharmaceutical industry is hugely competitive. Drug manufacturing giants aggressively market their products, and often their eyes are strictly on profits. So, they continue to downplay or hide the health risks associated with their "wonder drugs." All too often, the FDA must request stricter warning labels, only to pull the medication off the market months later. By the time of these medicines have been recalled, too many case reports of drug injury and even death have accumulated.

Cory Watson drug injury lawyers handle painkiller injury cases across the United States. Follow the links for information you need to know about national drug recalls, medicine-related injuries, and medications that have made headlines with their frightening side effects, which include: cardiovascular complications, primary pulmonary hypertension, hemorrhagic strokes, kidney damage, kidney failure, and more.

Avandia®

Avandia®, or rosiglitazone, is a drug used by millions of Americans to treat diabetes. Avandia is specifically used to treat type II diabetes mellitus (non-insulin-dependent, “age-onset” diabetes) by combating insulin resistance. [read more]

Bextra®

On April 7, 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked Pfizer, Inc. to voluntarily withdraw Bextra from the marketplace. Bextra, a recent addition to the COX-2 class of drugs, was approved by the FDA in 2001 and was prescribed mainly as a pain reliever for sufferers of arthritis and other painful conditions. [read more]

Chantix®

The anti-smoking drug Chantix® has been linked to depression, suicidal thoughts, and violent behavior in some users, according to the Food and Drug Administration. [read more]

Fosamax®

Fosamax is an oral medication used in the treatment of osteoporosis (bone loss) in post-menopausal women; to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis; and to treat Paget's Disease (a life-long chronic condition that results in abnormal bone growth). [read more]

Heparin® Syringes

Health officials are investigating cases of people across the country getting sick after being exposed to dangerous bacteria that contaminated heparin-filled syringes in several states. [read more]

HRT

In the United States, an estimated 38% of menopausal women use Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to relieve their symptoms of menopause and to prevent several debilitating conditions. However, HRT’s estrogen-progestin drug therapy has now been shown to significantly increase the risk for many alarming medical conditions including: strokes, breast cancer, heart attacks, pulmonary embolism, and more. [read more]

Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis

A dye used in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and MRA (magnetic resonance angiography) scans has been linked to a rare and potentially fatal skin disease in some users. [read more]

Ortho Evra®

Ortho Evra® is the number one prescribed birth control brand in the United States (1). Ortho Evra is a birth control patch that is applied to the arms, torso, abdomen, or buttocks once a week and offers "the same efficacy as the Pill with even greater simplicity (1)." It turns out, however, that women using Ortho Evra patch are at an increased risk for fatal blood clots compared to women taking birth control pills. [read more]

Paxil®

On September 27, 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and GlaxoSmithKline notified healthcare professionals of changes to the Pregnancy/PRECAUTIONS section of the Prescribing Information for Paxil® to describe the results of a study of major congenital malformations, which are physical body or organ malformations existing at birth. [read more]

Permax®

The Parkinson’s disease drug Permax® (pergolide) has been recalled from the market by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after reports that the drug is linked to serious and potentially fatal heart valve damage in some users. [read more]

Seroquel®

Seroquel (quetiapine) is pharmaceutical drug in the class of atypical antipsychotics approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1997. Antipsychotic drugs are used to treat symptoms of schizophrenia which include hearing voices, seeing things, sensing things that are not there, mistaken beliefs, and paranoia (1). Seroquel is also used in the treatment of mania associated with bipolar disorder. [read more]

SSRI

As our society progresses there comes social changes, different attitudes and new ways of thinking. New generations replace the old; unemployment figures ebb and flow, colleges and universities become more competitive as the population increases, high schoolers are faced with worry of the future and the world around them; sex, violence and drugs are invading their lives at earlier and earlier ages. [read more]

Strattera

On September 29, 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered Eli Lilly and Co., manufacturers of the attention deficit drug (AD/ADHD) Strattera®, to include information about increased suicidal thoughts in children and adolescents. [read more]

Trasylol®

Trasylol®, a medication frequently used during heart surgery to control bleeding, has been found to double the risk of kidney failure in patients. [read more]

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