Shezad Malik is an Internal Medicine and Cardiology specialist, a Texas Medical Doctor (retired) and Defective Medical Device and Dangerous Drug Attorney.
DePuy ASR metal on metal hip replacements, bad to the bone? According to a British health agency, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), millions of people worldwide who…
A Tennessee woman died allegedly from Pradaxa, and the family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit over Pradaxa against Boehringer Ingelheim. The lawsuit claims that the drug maker failed to…
Last year in a land mark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that generic drugmakers are not required to change warning labels even when alerted to new serious and potentially deadly side…
Bayer Healthcare reports that it has reached agreements to settle Yaz and Yasmin deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism lawsuits brought by at least 70 women. Over the next few months it is…
Thousands of patients around the world may have been exposed to toxic metal substances after being implanted with poorly regulated and potentially dangerous hip devices, according to a BMJ/BBC…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the statute of limitations on filing a product liability lawsuit does not always begin when the FDA places a warning on a drug’s label. This…
Federal health regulators are warning that cholesterol lowering drugs like Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor could increase the risk of diabetes, muscle injury and could cause memory loss and…
In 2009, a year before recalling their metal on metal DePuy ASR artificial hip, an executive, Ms Plouhar, at Johnson & Johnson reported in an internal e-mail that the Food and Drug…
Aimee L. Flynn, from Pennsylvania, has filed a lawsuit over NuvaRing. Flynn suffered a stroke that was allegedly caused by the popular birth control ring. The complaint was filed in the…
The FDA in the United States had serious safety concerns about one variation of a recalled DePuy hip implant. Johnson & Johnson went ahead and sold thousands of the devices in Europe, before…
A new medical study indicates that side effects of Pradaxa, may increase the risk of bleeding events even more than warfarin, the drug it was designed to replace. Kansas researchers…
New Jersey state court lawsuits over Accutane and generic versions have been consolidated as a mass tort in Atlantic County before Judge Carol Higbee, and the number of complaints filed in the…
