A recently completed study found a link between the use of Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) drugs like Nexium, Prevacid, Protonix, and Prilosec and hip fractures in post-menopausal women. According to BBC, a U.S. study of more than 80,000 nurses between the ages of 30 and 55 was conducted. The women participating in the study were [...]

Pharmaceutical company Novartis AG has agreed to pay $99 million in a settlement with current and former sales associates over an unpaid overtime lawsuit. More than 7,000 current and former employees of Novartis working as travelling sales representatives, mostly, filed the suit against the company claiming they worked long hours for no pay and don’t [...]

Most of the important communications regarding prescription drug safety and side effects go unnoticed, according to the results of a recent study on their effectiveness. According to a report from the online journal EndocrineToday.com, a University of Chicago team of researchers examined dozens of drug communications issued by the Food and Drug Administration since 1990 [...]

A Texas woman has become the latest to file a lawsuit against the makers of the NuvaRing contraceptive, claiming she suffered deep vein thrombosis just a month after beginning the treatment. According to The Southeast Texas Record, a local online legal journal, a Denton, Texas, woman seeks $10 million from a jury in a lawsuit [...]

The law firm of Parker Waichman Alonso LLP announced this week it would continue its fight on behalf of native Guatemalans seeking justice from the U.S. government over non-consensual experimentation conducted in the 1940s. The call comes on the heels of an announcement by the Dept. of Justice that it will seek to have an [...]

New research has linked use of statin drugs could increase a woman’s chance of developing diabetes. According to a Reuters report this week, for the millions of women taking statin drugs like Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Crestor, Lescol, Mevacor and Baycol to reduce cholesterol and ultimately lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke or death, there is [...]

Thousands of personal injury lawsuits filed in a Pennsylvania state court by women claiming they’ve suffered adverse side effects because of the oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin have been sent to a mediator for a possible settlement. This moves follows a similar action taken by a federal judge last week who also ordered hundreds of [...]

Researchers at nearly a dozen universities across the country continue to test the stop-smoking drug Chantix on high-risk patients as part of federally-funded clinical trials aimed at finding alternate uses for the drug. Chantix has been the subject of endless safety warnings from the Food and Drug Administration  and personal injury lawsuits from people taking [...]

Johnson & Johnson has issued a recall on about 12 million bottles of Motrin over-the-counter painkillers because they may not dissolve properly when they near their expiration date. According to a Bloomberg report, this is a voluntary recall and customers are not being urged to return any bottles they may have, but can. A spokesperson [...]

More than 100 men taking the baldness drugs Propecia and Proscar claim they suffered permanent sexual dysfunction and even some cases of depression as a result. A lawyer representing many of these men says he believes he can prove three suicides were the result of taking Propecia or Proscar. According to a report from Lawyers [...]