Montgomery based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C., has filed a second wrongful death lawsuit involving IV packs filled with liquid nutritional supplements that were contaminated. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of Lyndal Robinson, whose mother, Jewell Robinson, died after receiving contaminated total parenteral nutrition (TPN) at Shelby Baptist Medical Center in Shelby County, Alabama. The lawsuit names Birmingham-based pharmaceutical supplier Meds I.V. LLC as the primary defendant.
Montgomery based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C., has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of a patient who died in an Alabama hospital after receiving intravenous (IV) fluid tainted with a bacterial infection. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of Barbara Young, whose mother, Mary Ellen Kise, died at Baptist Health Systems in Prattville, Ala.
Nine people died and 10 more were sickened in six Alabama hospitals after receiving IV packs filled with nutritional supplements that were contaminated with a dangerous bacteria. The supplement packs were compounded by a Birmingham pharmacy called Meds IV. Beasley Allen attorneys are investigating claims related to patient deaths as a result of receiving the tainted IV fluids.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, inc., the maker of prescription pain medications Darvon and Darvocet, has agreed to withdraw the medications from the U.S. market. The move comes after the results of an FDA study in which new clinical data shows the drug, which goes by the generic name propoxyphene, puts patients at risk of potentially serious or even fatal heart rhythm abnormalities. The FDA determined the new data shows the risks of the drug outweigh any benefits.
Nearly 128,000 bottles of Tylenol have been recalled by manufacturer Johnson & Johnson after consumers reported a moldy odor in the product. This is just the latest in a long string of over-the-counter medication recalls by J&J for similar problems.
Makers of vaccines designed to protect children from a host of potentially dangerous diseases are threatening to stop production if the United States Supreme Court decides to allow to be heard some 5,000 lawsuits alleging that vaccines caused autism.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new rule this week that will clarify what and when safety information must be reported during clinical trials of investigational drugs and biologics.
Recalls of nearly 200 million well-known over-the-counter medicines produced by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have tarnished the company's image, cut into product sales, and cast a shadow over longtime J&J Chief Executive Officer Bill Weldon, who will appear before a congressional committee for the first time this week. Weldon reportedly has been recovering from back surgery and has yet to address the committee about the massive recalls on J&J medicines, such as Tylenol and Motrin for both adults and children due to contamination and substandard quality.
