Each year over 330,000 hip replacement surgeries are performed in the United States. A total hip replacement surgery, known to doctors as arthroplasty, traditionally involves cutting through most of the patient’s muscle tissue, tendons, and bone surrounding the original hip joint. An artificial hip is then anchored to the bone…
New drugs can yield billions of dollars for pharmaceutical companies. Because it takes many years to develop a drug, undergo clinical trials, and get it to market, drug companies will do virtually anything to get as much profit as possible for each new drug. This is especially true when considering…
Xarelto is a member of a class of drugs known as New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs), along with Eliquis, and Pradaxa. These drugs were designed to replace older blood-thinning drugs such as warfarin, which requires frequent monitoring of a patient’s blood to prevent dangerous side effects. The problem with Xarelto and…
Our Boston product liability lawyers recently discussed the arrest of NECC owners and employees in connection with the meningitis outbreak that occurred in 2012. The outbreak, which left 64 dead and caused more than 750 people to contract meningitis, was traced to contaminated steroids from the New England Compounding Center.…
According to a recent news article from NJ.com, the president and founder of OtisMed Corp. recently admitted to shipping hundreds of artificial knee products without FDA approval and pleaded guilty to criminal charges. Authorities are reporting defendant pleaded to guilty to three misdemeanor fraud counts related to a shipment of…
Brinkley v. Pliva, Inc., a defective drugs case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, involved plaintiff whose doctor prescribed the brand-name drug Reglan to treat her Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). Plaintiff’s pharmacist substituted the generic drug metoclopramide, which was manufactured by defendant. This occurred…
In 2012, a meningitis outbreak was traced to a New England compounding facility. As our Boston product liability lawyers wrote at the time, multiple drugs were linked to the meningitis outbreak. More than two years later, many of the victims and their family members are still trying to get justice…
According to a recent news article from CBS Boston, the founders of a Framingham compounding pharmacy and 12 other employees have been charged with racketeering and second-degree murder. Court papers indicated the compounding pharmacy was only licensed to manufacture small numbers of specific drugs for individual patients. This is the…
A new article from the New York Times suggests that patients should be careful before agreeing to undergo total knee replacement. Patients who suffer from sore knees and have trouble getting around may give in too quickly to the temptations of having an artificial knee implanted. The device manufacturers have…
Scott v. C.R. Bard, Inc., an appeal from the Court of Appeal for the State of California, involved a plaintiff who was injured by a polypropylene mesh kit designed to treat women who suffer from a condition known as pelvic organ prolapse (POP). POP occurs when a female patient has…