International law enforcement agencies have taken civil and criminal actions to shut down more than 4,100 internet pharmacies distributing unapproved and potentially dangerous medicines to the United States.…
Children who take antibiotics at a younger age may increase their risk of developing debilitating bowel disorders later in life, according to the findings of new research. …
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered that all consolidated proceedings previously referred to as a “mass tort”, which is typically applied when there are a large number of lawsuits pending throughout the state court system involving the same or similar medications or medical devices, will now be known as a “Multicounty Litigation”, or MCL. …
A New Jersey appeals court has overturned the verdicts in three Accutane lawsuits that went to trial jointly in 2008, finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish that stronger label warnings about the risk of bowel problems would have stopped them from using the acne drug, which was required under the Florida law that applied to the cases. …
A federal judge in Florida has granted summary judgment for Roche in an Accutane lawsuit, finding that the drug maker provided adequate warnings under New York law about the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) from the popular acne medication. …
European drug regulators are investigating whether Roche failed to report side effects and problems associated with a number of different drugs, which may have been linked to more than 15,000 deaths. …
New research has linked side effects of Accutane and the generic equivalents of the popular acne drug to an increased risk of various eye problems, including pink eye, styes and chronic dryness. …
Legislation may soon go before Congress that would circumvent a Supreme Court decision that allows generic drug manufacturers to escape responsibility for failing to warn about serious and potentially life-threatening side effects associated with medications they sell. …
In a decision that could have widespread ramifications on the drug industry, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the statute of limitations on filing a product liability lawsuit does not always begin when the FDA places a warning on a drug’s label. …
There are now more than 7,000 Accutane lawsuits pending in New Jersey state court, which allege that the makers of the acne medication failed to adequately warn about the risk of serious and debilitating bowel problems. …
