Month: August 2018

According to a recent report from a major medical journal, about 1 in 3 of people in the United States are on at least one drug that has depression as a potential side effect. Perhaps more disturbingly, this same study concluded that 1 in 4 Americans are on at least...

Recently, a federal appellate court in another part of the country, perhaps to the disappointment of many victims of dangerous drugs, set aside a $3 million verdict that a jury had awarded to the widow of a successful attorney who killed himself. The man was on the...

A previous post on this blog discussed the legal difficulties the drug manufacturer Bayer has run in to on account of its Essure birth control device. According to what may be up to 16,000 women who were willing to file lawsuits about the device, Essure caused...

The drug and medical device maker Bayer, along with the federal Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, have been in hot water of late over a birth control device that many women are saying caused them serious medical complications. The device, called Essure, has been...