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Defective Medication Lawsuits, Bad Drug Lawsuits, and
other Drug Product Liability Lawsuits (Texas Dangerous
Defective Drug Lawyer)
Dangerous
drug lawsuits, defective drug lawsuits, and other defective
drug product liability lawsuits are becoming more
common as drug companies and the pharmaceutical industry continue to produce,
market, and sell drugs that they know cause devastating
health problems. Some common defective drug lawsuits
have included Chantix
Lawsuits, Reglan
Tardive Dyskinesia Lawsuits, Defective Birth Control
Lawsuits, Avandia Lawsuits, Vioxx
Lawsuits, Ketek Lawsuits,
Gadolinium Contrast Dye
Lawsuits,
Trasylol Lawsuits, Zyprexa
Lawsuits, Antidepressant (SSRI) drug Lawsuits, and
other defective
drug and medication
Lawsuits. Defective and dangerous drugs can cause
devastating health problems or even death.
If you or a
loved one have
been seriously injured by a defective drug or dangerous medication, feel free to
submit an
inquiry or
send an e-mail to Texas
defective medication lawyer Jason Coomer.
He is a Texas defective product lawyer and may be able to help you recover your damages.
Defective Medication Claims
and Dangerous Drug Lawsuits
Medications can be extremely beneficial, but when
they are used incorrectly, marketed for the wrong purpose,
or dangerous side effects are hidden, defective drugs can cause serious
problems and catastrophic damages.
In our
modern society, the pharmaceutical companies have become
extremely rich and powerful. This pooling of resources
into the pharmaceutical companies allows these large
corporations to spend billions of dollars on developing new
drugs. The problem arises when after a substantial
investment in a new drug, research shows that the drug is
unsafe or has dangerous side effects. Because of the
substantial investment in the drug and the fact that many
people's careers depend on the success of the drug, some
pharmaceutical companies bury the negative research and
market the drug regardless of the damages that it may cause.
In doing so, these drug companies can cause devastating
health problems and death to those that are given their
dangerous drug.
Defective drug claims fall into
product liability law.
Product Liability
claims that stem from defective medications can be
extremely complicated and expensive to develop. Many
of these defective medication claims have aspects of medicine,
science, evidence, and law to investigate, examine, and
prove. To do this it is common to hire multiple
experts to prove that a medication is defective and that
it caused harm to a particular person or particular group of
people. For this reason
many defective medication claims require severe damages
and/or multiple injured parties to be viable.
Even when a
dangerous medication has caused serious damages, it can be quite
a fight to prove that a medication is defective.
Fighting through industry produced research and discovering
hidden adverse research can be difficult.
This is because the product's manufacturer has typically
invested a significant amount of money in designing the
product, manufacturing the product, and marketing the
product. For some dangerous drugs billions of dollars have
been invested in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and
distributing the defective drug. As such, everyone in the
production and distribution lines have a stake in disproving
that the medication is defective or dangerous.
Reglan GERD Tardive Dyskinesia Lawsuits (Tardive
Dyskinesia Neuroleptic Medication Lawsuits)
Reglan is a neuroleptic medication used
to treat gastrointestinal problems that have had many cases
of Tardive Dyskinesia reported in response to it. Reglan is
supposed to increase the stomach and small intestine
contractions to help the passage of food. As every
medication, Reglan has side effects associated to it and
some of them are very serious. In February 1996, the FDA
warned that Reglan causes an increased risk of Parkinsonism.
Reglan is a dopamine antagonist that
increases lower esophageal sphincter pressure and improves
gastrointestinal emptying. The FDA approved Reglan, which is
manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation, for
short-term treatment (between 4 and 12 weeks) of these
conditions only after conservative methods of treatment have
failed. However, it is common that patients are prescribed
Reglan for longer than 12 weeks, which is against FDA
recommendations.
This is problematic because prolonged use
of Reglan can cause Tardive Dyskinesia, a serious and often
irreversible movement disorder. Infants who are given Reglan
appear to be at an even greater risk for this serious drug
side effect.
The symptoms a person can experience from
Tardive Dyskinesia can vary from mild barely noticeable
facial ticks and involuntary movements to severe problems.
Severe cases of Tardive Dyskinesia can have a significant
impact on a person's life disabling them from normal
functioning. Severe facial ticks and involuntary body
movements can be extremely embarrassing cause a person to
withdraw from social interactions.
For more
information on Reglan and Tardive Dyskinesia, please go to
the following Reglan
Tardive Dyskinesia GERD Lawsuit Webpage.
Chantix Suicide Lawsuits (Texas Chantix Suicide
Lawyer)
Chantix
is a stop smoking aid or smoking cessation medication that
has been linked to mood and behavior changes in people that
use the drug. These behavior changes include suicidal
behavior and suicidal idealation. These changes are
especially problematic when Chantix is used in combination
with alcohol.
Health care professionals, patients,
patients' families, and caregivers should be alert to and
monitor for changes in mood and behavior in patients treated
with Chantix. Symptoms may include anxiety, nervousness,
tension, depressed mood, unusual behaviors and thinking
about or attempting suicide. In most cases, neuropsychiatric
symptoms developed during Chantix treatment, but in others,
symptoms developed following withdrawal of varenicline
therapy.
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Patients should immediately report
changes in mood and behavior to their doctor.
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Vivid, unusual, or strange dreams may
occur while taking Chantix.
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Patients taking Chantix may
experience impairment of the ability to drive or operate
heavy machinery.
FDA will continue to update health care
professionals with new information from FDA's continuing
review or if new information is received on Chantix and
serious neuropsychiatric symptoms.
For more
information on Chantix Suicide and Attempted Suicide
Lawsuits, please go to the following
Chantix Lawsuit
Webpage.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants (SSRIs)
Birth Defect Claims
Some medications that have been linked to
birth defects include Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
Antidepressants (SSRIs). Women that have taken SSRIs
after the 20th week of pregnancy have a 6-fold
increased risk of developing persistent pulmonary
hypertension, a life-threatening lung disorder.
Infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension have
abnormal blood flow through the heart and lungs and do not
get enough oxygen to their bodies and may become very sick
or die. For more information on Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressant Birth Defect Claims,
please go to our SSRI Birth Defect Claim Information Page.
The SSRIs antidepressants that have been
linked to persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) include
Paxil by GlaxoSmithKline, Zoloft marketed by Pfizer; Prozac
sold by Eli Lilly; Celexa and Lexapro by Forest
Laboratories, Effexor marketed by Wyeth, Luvox by Solvay,
and the generic makers of these drugs include Barr
Pharmaceuticals, Ranbaxy Labs and Genpharm.
Infants born with PPHN often require
mechanical assistance to breath and even worse about 10% to
20% of the infants do not survive even when they receive
treatment. The PPHN babies that do survive often experience
developmental delays, brain abnormalities and hearing loss,
experts say.
For more
information on PPHN, PPH and SSRI Birth Defect Lawsuits,
please go to the following
SSRI Antidepressant PPHN Birth Defect Lawsuit Webpage.
Defective Medication Lawsuits, Bad Drug Lawsuits,
and other Drug Product Liability Lawsuits (Texas Dangerous
Defective Drug Lawyer)
Texas defective medication and dangerous
drug lawyer, Jason S. Coomer, helps
individuals and their families that have been injured or damaged
by defective medications and dangerous drugs.
Because of the size, complexity, and expense of most product
liability claims, Jason Coomer commonly works with other
defective medication
lawyers across the United States as well as around the
World to prosecute product liability claims. He has worked with
San Antonio defective medication
Lawyers, Boston dangerous drug Lawyers, Houston
defective medication Lawyers, London defective product Lawyers, and
several other defective product lawyers.
If you have a question about a defective product and need a
defective medication
Lawyer or a dangerous drug to advise you,
contact Austin Texas defective drug lawyer Jason Coomer.
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