Far too often, our Virginia personal injury law firm has brought our readers information about dangerous drugs which are on the market despite the serious side effects they can cause. One of those drugs we’ve written about is Xarelto, a drug which is prescribed to…
A Williams & Connolly senior attorney in Washington DC has sued the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority for $50 million, stemming from a Metro station head injury that he claims left him unable to work. The attorney claims that he has not been able to…
Federal law requires hospitals to report any serious injury which was potentially caused by a medical device to the manufacturer of that device within 10 days the injury occurred. Hospitals are also required to notify both the manufacturer and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
The man in Austin TX who has been of accused of trying to injure or kill people by throwing rocks at moving vehicles on I-35 is facing a charge of aggravated assault in a case that left a man in Austin with brain damage. The…
Johnson & Johnson for many years represented the risks of vaginal mesh implants for thousands of patients, according to the attorneys general of Washington state and California this week as they filed lawsuits against the healthcare giant. One of the patients named in one of…
The number of transvaginal mesh lawsuits has now increased to more than 100,000 in the US. Women in the US who have had the procedure are continuing to have complications from these relatively new defective devices. What Is Transvaginal Mesh? TVM is an implant that…
Olympus, the manufacturer of the endoscope involved in two superbug deaths at UCLA, never had FDA approval to sell the device. The device is used in patients with gastrointestinal complaints. The FDA was unaware, until 2013, that Olympus started selling its TJF-Q180V duodenoscope (or ERCP…
Extensive advertising for testosterone replacement therapy that promises sufferers of the recently minted condition of “low-T” benefits such as weight loss, increased muscle mass, higher sexual drive, increased sexual performance and sharper mental concentration has prompted growing numbers of men to use supplemental testosterone despite…
Awareness of long-term concussion complications has grown exponentially over the past five years. The discovery of the Alzheimer’s disease-like degenerative neurological condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, among NFL players who sustained multiple concussions during their careers resulted in significant changes in how…