Minnesota Drug Injury Lawyer

Gempeler, Butwinick & Donaldson Injury Lawyers

There have been a variety of drug injuries in the news of late with a variety of drug manufacturers in the spotlight. The pharmaceutical industry is hugely competitive. Drug manufacturing giants aggressively market their products, often with their eyes strictly on profits. Specific health risks associated with their “wonder drugs” are frequently downplayed or hidden from the public. All too often, the FDA (www.fda.gov) must request stricter warning labels, only to pull the drug off the market months later. However, by the time of these drug recalls, many case reports of drug injury and even death have accumulated.

A Minnesota drug injury lawyers at Gempeler, Butwinick & Donaldson handles pharmaceutical cases because the public deserves compensation for drug companies' carelessness. Too many drugs have made headlines with their frightening side effects, which include: primary pulmonary hypertension, hemorrhagic strokes, kidney damage, kidney failure and more.

Follow the links for information you need to know about some of these drug recalls and drug injuries.

Digitek®

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall of the drug Digitek after reports of serious adverse reactions and digitalis toxicity in some users. Digitek is used to treat congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter, which are types of fast heartbeats. [read more]

Fosamax®

Fosamax is an oral drug used in the treatment of osteoporosis (bone loss) in post-menopausal women; to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis; and to treat Paget's Disease (a life-long chronic condition that results in abnormal bone growth). [read more]

Heparin Recall

There has been an urgent nationwide recall of heparin units manufactured by Baxter Healthcare. [read more]

MRI dye (NSF)

A dye used in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and MRA (magnetic resonance angiography) scans has been linked to a rare and potentially fatal skin disease in some users. [read more]

Ortho Evra®

Ortho Evra is the number one prescribed birth control brand in the United States (1) and is known as a ‘transdermal contraceptive system.’ It turns out, however, that women using the Ortho Evra patch are at an increased risk for fatal blood clots compared to women taking birth control pills. [read more]

SJS

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is a condition described by resulting severe skin reactions that include rashes and blisters that can progress to third degree burn-like intensity. SJS may result from many causes, though adverse drug reactions are often reported in conjunction with the condition. Pfizer, Inc. removed Bextra® from the market in April of 2005 for this very reason. [read more]

For the most current information about drug safety and regulation, please visit the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (www.fda.gov/cder).

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