http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/ Published By Miller & Zois en-us 2010-09-08T09:30:51-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/09/general_drugs_benefit_for_john_1.html Modern Medicine has a good post on how generic drug manufacturers have gained more market share as a result of the recent Johnson & Johnson recalls. Generic drugs are great for consumers because of the difference in price. But make... Johnson & Johnson Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-09-08T09:30:51-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/08/contact_lens_recall.html Johnson and Johnson has issued a voluntary recall of its 1-Day Acuvue TruEye contact lenses. This recall is only for contact lens that were made in Ireland and sold in Japan, other parts of Asia, and Europe and Asia. On... Johnson & Johnson Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-08-24T09:43:15-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/08/food_recalls_1.html An editorial in the Carroll County Times (Maryland) provides some information about contaminated food that will surprise some: 300,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 die every year because of contaminated food. Congress is now looking to give FDA the authority that... FDA Procedures Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-08-16T11:06:47-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/08/pay_for_delay.html The New York Times has an interesting editorial on efforts to put a stop to drug makers paying off generic competition to stay on the sidelines: The underhanded tactic, known as pay for delay, occurs when a generic drug company... Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-08-10T14:21:47-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/08/levaquin_lawsuit_continues.html U.S. District Court in Minnesota Judge John R. Tunnheim denied a motion for summary judgment in a suit filed by Johnson & Johnson in a Levaquin lawsuit set for trial. J&J's argument was the classic "doctor would have prescribed it... Drugs Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-08-03T10:06:46-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/08/neprofen_recall.html There is a recall of two lots of ibuprofen lysine (NeoProfen) because to unwanted levels of visible particulate matter found when testing the drug. The concern is that the matter can blog blood vessels, causing heart complications, pulmonary emboli or... Drugs Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-08-03T08:25:13-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/07/patent_lawsuits_on_the_rise.html According to the Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog, Maryland has seen only 10 patent lawsuit in 2010. Incredibly, there have already been 265 patent lawsuits in Texas. There are not more patents in Texas. Maryland inventors received almost as many... Litigation Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-07-27T11:10:20-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/07/seroquel_settlement.html AstraZeneca will pay $2 million to settle more than 200 Seroquel lawsuits. These are the first Seroquel settlements. This amounts to about $10,000 a plaintiff which is certainly a different value that had been expected. But it seems as though... Seroquel Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-07-23T09:39:51-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/07/new_luflunomide_warning.html The FDA reports that leflunomide received a boxed warning last week about the risk for severe liver injury, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today. Luflumomide is a rheumatoid arthritis drug. Luflumomide has had strong warnings since 2003... Drugs Ronald V. Miller, Jr. 2010-07-19T07:19:41-05:00 http://www.drugrecalllawyerblog.com/2010/07/avandia_update.html Lots going on in GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia world. They've been wounded, but avoided summary execution yesterday when twelve of 33 members voted to allow it to stay on the market, albeit with significant restrictions and black box warnings. See CNN's article.... Miller & Zois 2010-07-15T16:30:10-05:00