IVC Filter Manufacturer Sued for Filter Recipient’s Death
A North Carolina man suffered fatal injuries when an IVC filter (inferior vena cava) filter failed and allegedly caused the catastrophic malfunction that it was meant to prevent. IVC Background The IVC filter is a small, cage-like device intended to trap blood clots before they reach the heart and lungs. However, reports continue … [Read more...]
Series of Medical Catheter Recalls
Concerns Over Catheter Recalls. Catheters are widely used medical devices that that are inserted into the body to facilitate a wide variety of treatments. Catheters are used to drain urine and fluids from the body. Cardiac catheterization is a procedure used to examine heart function, take blood samples, take tissue samples for a … [Read more...]
IVC Filter Medical Device Risks May Outweigh Benefits
An inferior vena cava (IVC) filter is a small cage-like device designed to catch and dissolve blood clots. These devices are implanted in patients who have a higher risk of blood clots but for various reasons, cannot take anticoagulants. An IVC works by trapping blood clots before they migrate to vital organs such as the heart or … [Read more...]
Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy Blood Clots Side Effects
Hormone Therapy Side Effects Risk. Have you or a loved one undergone hormone therapy for prostate cancer and suffered a blood clot? New research has tied prostate cancer hormone therapy to a significant risk of dangerous blood clots in the veins, arteries and lungs. The defective drug lawyers at Parker Waichman LLP are currently … [Read more...]
HeartMate II Implant Critical Blood Clots Risk
increasing number of patients implanted with the HeartMate II Last year, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic noticed that an increasing number of patients implanted with the HeartMate II pump device were developing potentially fatal blood clots soon after the device was implanted. This type of heart implant is used on patients in … [Read more...]
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura A Rare Blood Disorder. Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) is a rare blood disorder; it is serious and potentially fatal for those who get it. TTP involves the formation of blood clots in the body’s small blood vessels; the clots can limit or block the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the body's … [Read more...]
Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Disease Injury Lawsuits
Birth Control Patch Can Cause Pulmonary Embolism. On November 10, 2005, Johnson & Johnson issued a warning about its Ortho Evra birth control patch causing a higher incidence of blood clots than oral contraceptives. A Pulmonary Embolism is a blood clot that passes from the legs to the lungs.The AP reported that, based upon FDA … [Read more...]
Alleged Injuries in IVC Filter Litigation Include Difficult Retrieval
Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters are devices that are used to prevent blood clots from reaching the heart and lungs. These small, cage-like devices are placed in the inferior vena cava, the major vein that brings blood from the lower body back to the heart. IVC filters are often used in patients who are at risk for pulmonary … [Read more...]
Health Canada Warns of Complications with IVC Filters
Health Canada has issued a safety alert regarding the use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, which are used to stop blood clots from reaching the heart or lungs. The regulators warned that patients receiving IVC filters have reported serious complications, including: caval perforation, caval thrombosis, filter fracture and fragment … [Read more...]
Researchers Recommend Further Research and Monitoring of Patients with IVC Filters
In a June 2015 article in Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, researchers from Southern Illinois University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston concluded their case report with the recommendation that further research be conducted to determine the long-term safety and effectiveness of IVC (inferior vena cava) … [Read more...]
Eli Lilly’s Experimental Lung Cancer Drug May Increase Risk of Blood Clots
In a report issued Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raised concerns that Eli Lilly's experimental lung cancer drug necitumumab could increase the likelihood of blood clots. The agency found that the drug was associated with a greater chance of overall survival, but that it may also present a higher risk of … [Read more...]
Higher Risk of Blood Clots with Newer Birth Control Pills
Birth Control Pills Risk Of Blood Clots. Newer birth control pills such as Yaz, Yasmin and Marvelon may increase the risk of blood clots as much as older pills and perhaps even more, new research suggests. A new study published in the BMJ, the online journal of the British Medical Association, found that women are four times as … [Read more...]
Study Links Newer Birth Control Pills to Increased Risk of Blood Clots
A study published in the BMJ, the online journal of the British Medical Association, adds to a growing body of evidence linking newer birth control pills to an increased risk of blood clots. Researchers found that women taking newer oral contraceptives were four times as likely to experience venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood … [Read more...]
Plavix Lawsuits Gaining Traction
Plavix Lawsuits Gaining Traction. The litigation surrounding Plavix is heating up. According to a report from LawyersUSA, at least 40 Plavix lawsuits are pending in New Jersey state court. Thousands more could ultimately be filed there and in other states. Plavix is used to prevent blood clots after a recent heart attack or … [Read more...]
New York Hospital Negligence Victim Died of Blood Clots
Woman Died Due To New York Hospital Negligence. Esman Green, the woman who died at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC) June 19 after writhing on the floor of its psychiatric emergency ward for a full hour, has apparently died due to blood clots. According to an Associated Press (AP) report, the blood clots were caused “by … [Read more...]
Ortho Evra Needs to Go, Public Citizen Says
Ortho Evra May Cause Fatal Blood Clots.A prominent consumer advocacy group says Ortho Evra, Johnson & Johnson's controversial birth control patch, is too dangerous to be on the market. Public Citizen is asking federal regulators to ban Ortho Evra because it poses a higher risk of potentially fatal blood clots than other … [Read more...]
Ortho Evra Gets Second Safety Warning as Concerns over Blood Clots Mount
Ortho Evra Gets Second Safety Warning. A second Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch study has found that the contraceptive puts users at a higher risk of blood clots than estrogen-containing birth control pills, prompting the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to announce another round of label modifications for the Johnson & Johnson … [Read more...]
Contraceptive Patch Increases Blood Clots Risk
Ortho Evra Contraceptive Patch Increases Risk of Blood Clots. According to a study published this month in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, women who use contraceptive patches, such as Ortho Evra, may be more than twice as susceptible to blood clotting as women who take oral contraception. The study was conducted by researchers … [Read more...]
FDA Explores Safety of Heart Stents
Drug-Releasing Heart Stents Increase The Risk Of Deadly Blood Clots. New drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open appear to increase the risk for potentially life-threatening blood clots more than older bare-metal versions, government investigators told an expert panel assessing the safety of the devices … [Read more...]
Stents’ Day in the Sun
FDA Panel Review Safety Data On The Use of Drug Eluting Stents. A Food and Drug Administration panel is slated to review safety data on the use of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Boston Scientific's (BSX) drug-eluting stents amid concerns that the devices could lead to greater instances of blood clots. Specialists on the FDA … [Read more...]
Drug-coated stents facing hard look
FDA Panel Will Consider Risk Of Blood Clots Caused By Drug-Coated Stents. A Food and Drug Administration panel tomorrow will consider one of the most urgent questions in medicine: what to do about the risk of blood clots caused by drug-coated stents, tiny medical devices implanted in the arteries of millions of people. The topic … [Read more...]
The heart of a stent debate
People With Drug Coated Stents Are Propane To Fatal Blood clots. Michael Young had a choice. Doctors could clear his three blocked coronary arteries by cracking open his chest and surgically bypassing them. Or they could clear them from within by inflating a tiny balloon and propping them open with wire-mesh stents, coated with a … [Read more...]
Health Canada warning over birth control patch
Birth Control Patch May Increase The Risk Of Blood Clots. Health Canada is warning Canadian women that the use of a birth control patch may increase their risk of developing blood clots in the legs and lungs. The department, along with drugmaker Janssen-Ortho Inc., issued the statement based on research that showed a U.S. … [Read more...]
Warning added to birth control patch
Birth Control Patch May Increased The Risk Of Blood Clots. Women were warned Wednesday that their risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs may be higher if they use the birth control patch instead of the pill. The Food and Drug Administration said it updated the label on the Ortho Evra birth control patch to reflect the results … [Read more...]
GALS’ PATCH PERIL
Birth Control Patch Peril Increased Risk Of Blood Clots. Labels on a popular birth-control patch will be updated to warn women that the danger of blood clots in their legs and lungs are higher for them than for women using the pill, federal officials said yesterday. The new warnings came months after a manufacturer settled dozens … [Read more...]
Boston Scientific confirms risk of blood clots in drug-coated stents
Risk Of Blood Clots Found In Patients Implanted With Drug-Coated Stents. Boston Scientific Corp. found a slightly higher risk of blood clotting in patients implanted with its newer drug-coated stents compared with older bare-metal versions, a company spokesman said Thursday. , The medical device maker reported the finding of its … [Read more...]
Ways To Improve Detection Of Blood Clots In The Lung
New Study To Detect Blood Clots In The Lungs. A new study of a commonly used imaging test of the chest to detect potentially deadly blood clots in the lung shows that extending the scan to the legs "where the clots typically originate" or adding a standard clinical assessment significantly improves physicians' abilities to accurately … [Read more...]
PATCH MAKER PAYOUT
Blood Clots And Strokes Are The Risks Of Birth Control Patch Maker. Women who suffered life-threatening blood clots and strokes on the Ortho-Evra birth-control patch are receiving cash settlements from the manufacturer, which allegedly failed to warn customers about the known risks, The Post has learned. Ortho-McNeil … [Read more...]
Risk Factors besides Inactivity Trigger Blood Clots on Long Flights
Blood Clots Associated With Inactivity During Long Flights. For several years, “economy class syndrome” has been a term used to describe life-threatening blood clots associated with restrictive seating, inactivity during long flights, and frequent flying. A recent study published in Lancet suggests that additional conditions … [Read more...]
New Air Travel Clot Risk Theory
Deadly Air Travel Clot Risk. Sitting still for long periods cannot alone explain why air passengers are at higher risk of potentially deadly blood clots, research suggests. The risk of developing deep vein thrombosis is thought to be raised by air travel - particularly long flights. But a Lancet study by Dutch researchers found … [Read more...]
Early Studies Tie Birth Control Patch to Blood Clots
Birth Control Patch User Face The Risk Of Blood Clots. Women using the increasingly popular birth control patch may face double the risk of blood clots than women taking the pill, but more investigation is needed to see if the preliminary findings are valid, federal regulators said today. "We're not sure what this means … [Read more...]
Birth-Control Patch Users Face Clot Risk
Women Who Use Birth Control Patch Face The Risk Of Blood Clots. Women who use the Ortho Evra birth-control patch face twice the risk of developing blood clots than those who take the pill, the patch's manufacturer said late Thursday, citing recent company-funded research. The finding comes from one of two studies comparing the … [Read more...]
Parents Blamed Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch for Their Daughter’s Death
Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Raised The Risk Of Blood Clots. Alycia Brown was an eighth-grader in La Crosse, Wisconsin when she died of blood clots in her lower pelvis on May 7, 2004. She had been using the Ortho Evra birth control patch for about eight weeks. A federal law suit has now been filed in Madison by her parents who … [Read more...]
Birth control patch could pose unforeseen health problems
Health Risks Related To Birth Control Patch. Michaela Smart has plenty of advice when it comes to birth control and blood clots. “Don’t smoke,” the senior special education major at the University of Nebraska at Omaha said. “Get tested for all clotting diseases.” Smart is part of a growing number of women, health care providers … [Read more...]
The makers of birth control patch are putting out a warning
Blood Clots Were Linked To The Birth Control Patch. DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: The FDA approves an updated warning regarding the Ortho Evra patch, specifically saying that in fact it was probably delivering much more estrogen than previously thought, up to 50 to 60 percent higher. The concern specifically … [Read more...]
Litigation Over Allegations that Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Increases Risk of Blood Clots
Ortho Evra Patch Risk of Blood Clots, Stroke, and Death. Amidst recent reports by the consumer watchdog group, Public Citizen (www.worstpills.org), as well as the Associated Press that squarely challenge the safety of the Ortho Evra birth control patch marketed by Ortho-McNeil and strongly urge women to avoid using it, several … [Read more...]
Expert testifies Vioxx can cause deadly clots
Painkiller Vioxx Can Cause Blood Clots. A nationally known pharmacology expert testified Tuesday that the prescription painkiller Vioxx can cause blood clots like the one that led to the death of a Florida seafood salesman four years ago. Further, scientists and officials from drug maker Merck either intentionally ignored or were … [Read more...]
THE PATCH OF ‘DEATH’
A Contraceptive Patch Caused Blood Clots. A popular and profitable contraceptive patch promoted by sexy TV ads caused 11 times as many fatal or life-threatening blood clots as a leading birth-control pill, a new lawsuit charges. The Ortho Evra patch is "defective" and more dangerous than the manufacturer admits, alleges a suit by … [Read more...]
Tamoxifen Drug Warning
Cancer Drug Tamoxifen Safety Warnings. Health officials are warning older women who are taking the drug tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer that it may put them at increased risk of cancer of the uterus, stroke and blood clots in the lungs. "These risks apply specifically to elderly women on the drug and not to younger women taking … [Read more...]
Risks of Arthritis Drugs Studied
Arthritis Drugs Risk Of Heart Attacks. There's growing suspicion that switching from aspirin to a more stomach-friendly arthritis drug could increase some people's risk of heart attacks — and a study suggests the reason: a drug-caused chemical imbalance that spurs blood clots. The new research was in mice, not people. But the … [Read more...]
