On Tuesday, March 18th, the FDA released a new set of 11 mandatory graphic warnings to be added to cigarette boxes and advertisements. The FDA stated that smokers have become indifferent to the current warnings and are not aware of some major risks that are well...
The FDA announced on Wednesday, March 4th, that Montelukast, an allergy medication sold under the brand name Singulair, will be required to include a boxed warning. The label was last updated in 2008 after a number of events involving suicide or serious psychiatric...
On Thursday, February 27th, a jury verdict was delivered against J&J that awards Blanca Mure-Cabrera with $3 million for past medical expenses and $6 million for past and future pain and suffering. A lifetime user of J&J baby powder, the plaintiff claimed the...
A month after settling a case at mid-trial in Alameda County, California, J&J put an end to a NY trial on February 25th, where plaintiff Laura Shanahan accused J&J’s baby powder of causing her pleural mesothelioma. The jury was relieved of their duties before...
A proposed settlement has been reached with generic drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, in which the company will pay $1.6 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits filed in the Cleveland MDL as well as by 47 state and U.S. territory attorneys general as...
On February 6th, the JPML released an order that will send over 140 lawsuits involving injuries caused by the heartburn medication Zantac to the Southern District of Florida. The judge assigned to preside over the consolidated cases, The Honorable Robin L. Rosenberg,...
Almost a year after Bayer stopped selling Essure, the company has reported that 99% of the unused birth control devices have been returned due to its outreach to patients and health care professionals. Bayer maintains that the reason it took Essure off the market in...
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California, who is presiding over the Viagra MDL, has ruled that the plaintiffs’ causation experts must be excluded. In an Order filed on January 13, Judge Seeborg pointed out that the plaintiffs had been...
On January 9th, only a few days after J&J’s California case settled, the FDA announced that it will hold a day-long public forum to gather information and discuss the testing procedures for detecting asbestos in talc-based cosmetics. The meeting is scheduled to...
On January 2nd, the Trump administration announced a plan to ban several e-cigarette pods flavors with the exemption of menthol and tobacco flavors and other devices for flavored liquid nicotine. The intention of this partial ban is to take off the market the key...
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