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Sort by relevance 16,386 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- FDA Warns of Increased Risk of Invokana Leg and Foot Amputations
Washington, DC: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting the public about interim safety results from an ongoing clinical trial that found an increase in leg and foot amputations, mostly affecting the toes, in patients treated with the diabetes medicine canagliflozin (Invokana, Invokamet). The agency has not determined whether canag... - Defective Knee Implant Legal News and Lawsuit Information
Allegedly defective knee implants have been a cause of concern for medical professionals and patients alike, with some knee implant devices being the subject of recalls due to a high rate of complications, ranging from infection and trauma to loosening or poor implant positioning, along with a defective medical device. Among issues allegedly associated with... - FDA Warns of Fracture Risk with Invokana and Invokamet
Washington, DC: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strengthened the warning for the type 2 diabetes medicine canagliflozin (Invokana, Invokamet) related to the increased risk of bone fractures, and added new information about decreased bone mineral density. To address these safety concerns, the FDA has added a new warning and precaution and r... - FDA Warns of Ketoacidosis Linked to SGLT2 inhibitors Canagliflozin, Dapagliflozin, and Empagliflozin
Washington, DC: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that the type 2 diabetes medicines canagliflozin (Invokana), dapagliflozin (Forxiga), and empagliflozin (Jardiance) may lead to ketoacidosis, a serious condition where the body produces high levels of blood acids called ketones that may require hospitalization. The FDA is investi... - Zimmer Knee Replacement | Knee Implants | NexGen Knee - LawyersAndSettlements.com
Since the Zimmer NexGen knee replacement system has been on the market, almost half a million people in the US alone have had Zimmer knee implants. However, the Zimmer knee replacement, namely the NexGen CR-Flex Porous Femoral component , has recently been linked to a variety of problems, from loosening of the implant to failure of the replacement knee,... - California Jury Decision in Zoom Asbestos Trial Admirable
Nov-3-20 Santa Clara, CA Despite Metalclad Insulation LLC arguing that COVID-19 restrictions and juror irregularities unfairly impacted an asbestos lawsuit claiming the manufacturer was liable for negligently failing to recall or warn about the risks of using insulation containing asbestos, a California jury awarded the plaintiffs, a Navy admiral and his wife, ov... - Bayer Essure Settlement a Victory for Thousands of Essure Victims and E-Sisters
Nov-2-20 Santa Clara, CA On the ”Essure Problems” Facebook Page, which was started in 2011, Angie Firmalino advises about 44,000 women, called E-sisters, not to discuss their settlement as it comes with a confidentiality agreement that includes “restrictions about discussing your settlement online… discussing your settlement will jeopardize... - California Court Okays Chipotle Wage Lawsuit Deal
Oct-29-20 San Francisco, CA On October 2, the Superior Court of California gave preliminary approval to an agreement to settle Turley v. Chipotle Services, LLC. , a long-running California labor lawsuit . The workers argued that Chipotle's practice of understaffing caused them to miss meal and rest periods in violation of the California Labor Code. In a... - Atrium C-QUR Hernia Mesh Causing Pain and Infection
Santa Clara, CA: Allegations that the Atrium C-Qur hernia mesh causes severe health effects including pain and injury in people who’ve undergone the surgery, are being made. Additionally, plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits claim that Atrium was aware of the problems with the mesh but did nothing to warn the medical community. Specifically... - Volkswagen Salespeople Claim Lost Income due to VW’s Deceptive Practices
Oct-27-20 Santa Clara, CA A dispute over whether Volkswagen is a joint employer stems from a California labor lawsuit that has dragged on since 2016. VW sales representatives in California claim the German automaker is liable for wage and hour violations and the commissions they lost over the emissions-cheating scandal that blew up in 2015. Plaintiff... - California Wage Lawsuit Argues Mortgage Company's Pay Practices
Oct-26-20 Berkeley, CA A former loans officer with Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation has filed a California wage lawsuit alleging the company stiffed him and other loan officers out of commissions and other payments, including overtime compensation. Jose Vasquez filed the lawsuit in September 2020 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Cali... - Regular Acid-reflux Drug Use Linked to Higher Risk of type 2 Diabetes
Oct-25-20 Santa Clara, CA During this Pandemic there is also an epidemic that has been growing for decades and it is just as dangerous, perhaps even more so, than COVID 19. And drugs known as proton pump inhibitors or PPIs are feeding this epidemic: type 2 diabetes. Health experts call type 2 diabetes a global health crisis because its rapid increase contr... - IUD Breakage an Increasing ParaGard Problem
Oct-23-20 New Jersey When NJ gynecologist Carolyn Delucia, MD suggests to NewBeauty readers that “you can go back to your gynecologist any time to get [Paragard IUD] removed,” it makes you wonder what bubble she is living in. Since 2010, the FDA has received more than 1,600 reports of ParaGard breakage , with more than 700 classified as serious... - Montana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit News & Legal Information
In Montana, a patient who has been injured by substandard medical care may file a medical malpractice lawsuit. These lawsuits cover things like failing to order medical tests, ignoring a call for help that resulted in injury or death, neglecting to provide appropriate aftercare, or failing to give a patient enough information to make a reasonable medical dec... - Court Greenlights Class Action Status for Home Depot 401k ERISA Lawsuit
Oct-22-20 Atlanta, GA On September 21, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that an ERISA lawsuit brought by participants in the Home Depot FutureBuilder 401(k) Plan against plan fiduciaries could proceed as a class action lawsuit. Pizarro v. The Home Depot is particularly notable for the number of participant who may be affected &ndas... - Lead Attorney for 3M Earplug Plaintiffs is Proceeding to Trial
Oct-21-20 Pensacola, FL Attorney Bryan Aylstock and his law firm is representing over 10,000 current and former U.S. military service members who have suffered hearing loss and tinnitus allegedly caused by 3M defective military earplugs . “We hold 3M accountable for what they did to our military brothers and sisters and what they did not tell them,” say... - Looks like New Jersey hosts Elmiron MDL
Oct-20-20 Newark, NJ It’s a toss-up: whether to send 80 Elmiron vision loss lawsuits to Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Currently the latter seems to be the best bet. Lawyers have so far filed 80 Elmiron lawsuits and they anticipate hundreds more. Plaintiffs are rooting for the Garden State. On September 23, plaintiffs urged the Judicial Panel on Multidistric... - Google Worker Secrecy Agreements to face California Labor Lawsuit
Oct-19-20 San Francisco, CA On September 21 the California Court of Appeals ruled that Google and Adecco USA, Inc., a staffing company, must face allegations that the confidentiality agreements required of all Google employees violate the California Labor Code . Among other remedies, Doe v. Google seeks penalties under the California Private Attorneys Gene... - C.R. Bard Hernia Mesh Trial Gets the Green Light
Oct-18-20 Santa Clara, CA Federal hernia mesh lawsuits filed against C.R. Bard are proceeding with the first bellwhether trial scheduled for January 2021 (it was postponed due to COVID), despite numerous efforts by the medical device maker to have the case dismissed. This trial may well indicate the future of hernia mesh litigation and significantly impact up... - Injectafer Double Dose—Double Profit and Double Risk, and Dosage Discrepancy
Oct-14-20 Santa Clara, CA Hypophosphatemia, an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, may be due to longer term use or excess of certain drugs such as bisphosphonates, including Injectafer , but that may depend upon researchers conducting the clinical trials and the amount of the iron-deficiency drug treatment. The FDA approved Injectafer in July 2013 a...