Last week, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that “despite major advances in research, between 30 and 40 percent of all people diagnosed with depression don’t respond to standard treatments.” According to the Post-Gazette, the failure rate for depression treatment is

According to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), in 2012 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System received more than 3,200 reports of problems associated with the drug Pradaxa. Pradaxa is

LawyersandSettlements.com had an interesting story last month about the anti-seizure medications Depacon, Depakote, Depakote CP, Depakote ER, Depakene or Stavzor. According to the website, doctors now have to reconsider whether to prescribe the drugs, in light of their link to cognitive

According to LawyersandSettlments.com, an Actos bladder cancer lawsuit will move forward in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, which could potentially affect the outcome of thousands of other lawsuits involving the drug.

A Philadelphia woman is suing the manufacturers of the cholesterol drug Lipitor after she allegedly developed diabetes as a result of taking the drug. According to the Pennsylvania Record, Doris Brown alleges that she developed

When a pharmaceutical drug or device inflicts similar injuries on multiple people, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) may consolidate these plaintiffs into multidistrict litigation (MDL). Recently, the JPML denied MDL status to lawsuits seeking damages

According to NBC News, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating a growing number of reports of non-viral hepatitis in Hawaii that have led to 11 hospitalizations and one death. NBC reported that a common

As described in the Tennessean (9/30, Roche), last week in Massachusetts, US Bankruptcy Judge Henry Boroff set a Jan. 15, 2014, deadline for victims of the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak to file claims in the bankruptcy

The Boston Globe reported on September 10 that Biogen Idec Inc. and Irish drug maker Elan Pharmaceuticals Inc. are facing lawsuits after they allegedly failed to warn people about potentially dangerous side effects of the multiple sclerosis

According to WEWS-TV in Cleveland, more than 70,000 women have filed complaints with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD). More than 2 million people currently use the birth control