It was previously reported after the end of baseball season, Pirates manager, Clint Hurdle, had a total hip replacement. His struggles with arthritis were well known to baseball fans as the beloved manager could barely stand in the dugout for the length of a ballgame last season. This painful arthritis…
One of the main ways drug companies get patients to take their drugs is through direct marketing to potential patients through television, Internet, and magazine advertisements. There was a time when the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not allow drug companies to direct market to individual users,…
It is hard to watch TV these days without seeing ads for Xarelto. Xarelto is a member of a class of drugs known as New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs). Other members of this class include Eliquis and Pradaxa. Xarelto is the brand name in the United States for rivaroxaban manufactured by…
If you ever watch a documentary or reality show about military training, it seems like the men and women are being pushed to the limits of their physical ability. In reality, they are often being pushed far beyond what the human body was designed to do. This is evident in…
Eliquis, like Xarelto and Pradaxa, is part of a class of drugs known as New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs). NOACs have entered the United States market in the past few years and have earned their respective manufacturers billions of dollars in sales in that short period of time. The reason for…
Over the past decade, more and more people have started taking testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) drugs to treat the alleged symptoms of having a “low-t” count. Low-T is a term created by the marketing arm of drug companies intended to mean a person has a lower than average testosterone count.…
Each year over 330,000 hip replacement surgeries are performed in the United States. A total hip replacement surgery, known to doctors as arthroplasty, traditionally involves cutting through most of the patient’s muscle tissue, tendons, and bone surrounding the original hip joint. An artificial hip is then anchored to the bone…
New drugs can yield billions of dollars for pharmaceutical companies. Because it takes many years to develop a drug, undergo clinical trials, and get it to market, drug companies will do virtually anything to get as much profit as possible for each new drug. This is especially true when considering…
Xarelto is a member of a class of drugs known as New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs), along with Eliquis, and Pradaxa. These drugs were designed to replace older blood-thinning drugs such as warfarin, which requires frequent monitoring of a patient’s blood to prevent dangerous side effects. The problem with Xarelto and…
Our Boston product liability lawyers recently discussed the arrest of NECC owners and employees in connection with the meningitis outbreak that occurred in 2012. The outbreak, which left 64 dead and caused more than 750 people to contract meningitis, was traced to contaminated steroids from the New England Compounding Center.…