Texas updates in category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

Yesterday the FDA announced that Bayer would be removing remaining stocks of Trasylol after a study confirming suspected increased death risks was published in the New England Journal of...

The results of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine have confirmed preliminary findings that Bayer’s anti-bleeding medication Trasylol (aprotinin) dramatically increases a...

According to a long awaited study published today, Bayer’s Trasylol has a 53 percent higher death rate than other similar drugs. Trasylol was withdrawn from the market in November after the...

Today a federal court is scheduled to start hearing a case that will for the second time this year have parents telling their stories of how their children developed autism after be vaccinated...

A new study that analyzed over 12 years of data from the UK suggests that the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos may double or even triple the likelihood of a bone fracture in diabetes patients....

A class I recall is being issued for all Digitek (digoxin) medications, because they might have twice the approved levels of digoxin. Double-strength pills can cause digitalis toxicity, which can...

Two weeks after Actavis issued a recall for its heart medication Digitek, or digoxin, the first lawsuits have been filed. Very little information has been made available on this recall other...

Public Citizen has filed a petition with the FDA requesting that the Ortho-Evra patch be removed from the shelf within six months. The patch has been found to release dangerously high levels of...

Today the watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the U.S. government to pull the birth control patch Ortho Evra from the market. Ortho Evra has been linked to higher rates of blood clots and...

Suicide has been linked to several medicines over the past few years. Some of these include Accutane, Chantix, Singular and Paxil. The Food and Drug Administration has received reports on at least...

In February of this year Actavis issued a voluntary recall of 14 lots of their popular fentanyl transdermal painkilling patch. The patches are designed to treat chronic pain by slowly...

Lawsuits are being filed every day regarding the tainted doses of the blood thinner Heparin. Another fatality involved a Missouri retiree who died as a result of an allergic reaction to the...

A new lawsuit has been filed against Bayer in response to the controversy currently surrounding Trasylol. This lawsuit however does not make a personal injury claim against the company, as...

Preemption has been a big topic in the legal world over the past several months. Basically the issue is whether or not the FDA’s approval of a drug should preempt consumers from filing lawsuits for...

After hearing tearful testimony this week of the family members who recently lost loved ones treated with contaminated batches of the popular blood-thinner Heparin. Heparin was recalled in...