Lap-Band weight loss device maker subpoenaed 
Published: May 17, 2012
Tags: Allergan, Department of Health and Human Services, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, gastric lap bands, HHS, lap band, lap bands
Lap-Band maker Allergan has been subpoenaed by the U.S. government over problems with the weight loss device.
Medtronic pain pump suit preempted, says 9th Circuit
Published: April 19, 2012
Tags: FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Medtronic, pain pump, paraplegia, preemption, products liability
Federal law preempts state product liability claims brought by a man who suffered paralysis after a Medtronic pain pump was surgically implanted to deliver medication to his spine, the 9th Circuit has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
FDA: Yaz users may have higher risk of blood clots
Published: April 18, 2012
Tags: Bayer, birth control, birth control litigation, Food and Drug Administration, Yasmin, Yaz
Drospirenone-containing birth control pills like Bayer’s Yaz and Yasmin may be associated with a higher risk for blood clots than progestin-containing pills, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded.
FDA rejects call for BPA ban
Published: April 12, 2012
Tags: bisphenol-A, BPA, Department of Health and Human Services, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Natural Resources Defense Council
The Food and Drug Administration has rejected a consumer safety group’s call for an immediate ban of bisphenol A (BPA) in food and food packaging, concluding that further scientific study into the chemical’s effects on human health is needed.
First Pradaxa suits filed in federal court
Published: March 26, 2012
Tags: atrial fibrillation, blood thinners, drug litigation, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Pradaxa, product liability
What are believed to be the first three product liability suits over the blood thinner Pradaxa were filed earlier this month in federal courts in Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Whistleblower alleges company suppressed Actos risks
Published: March 19, 2012
Tags: Actos, bladder cancer, diabetes, False Claims Act, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, qui tam, Takeda, whistleblower
Drug maker Takeda failed to report bladder cancer and heart failure adverse events for its diabetes drug Actos, a whistleblower claims in a just-unsealed federal lawsuit.
FDA can’t mandate graphic cigarette warnings
Published: March 1, 2012
Tags: consumer protection, FDA, First Amendment, Food and Drug Administration
The First Amendment bars the enforcement of a new federal regulation requiring tobacco companies to include graphic warnings on cigarette packages, a U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has ruled in granting a summary judgment.
Bill would accelerate FDA drug approval process
Published: February 27, 2012
Tags: FDA, Food and Drug Administration
A bill introduced in the Senate is aimed at accelerating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process for new drugs and treatments needed by patients with serious or life-threatening diseases.
Lawsuit alleges drug Effexor caused fatal birth defect
Published: February 17, 2012
Tags: birth defects, drug litigation, Effexor, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Pfizer, product liability, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
In what is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind, an Ohio woman is claiming that her ingestion of the popular anti-depressant Effexor during pregnancy caused a fatal birth defect in her daughter.
Vaginal mesh suits get consolidated in West Virginia
Published: February 16, 2012
Tags: FDA, Food and Drug Administration, multi-district litigation, pelvic mesh, vaginal mesh
Lawsuits against three major vaginal mesh device manufacturers have been centralized in multidistrict litigations in West Virginia.
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