News & Commentary on Prescription Drug & Medical Device Lawsuits
Last week, the pharmaceutical company, Takeda, was ordered to pay $1.3 million in punitive damages to a former Philadelphia schoolteacher who “argued the drugmaker’s Actos diabetes medicine caused his bladder cancer”, Japan Times writes.
Only a few days earlier, that man was awarded over $2.3 million in compensatory damages.
According to that Japan Times…
A recent article published as an editorial in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice by JA Johnson et al. titled “Balancing the risks and benefits for pioglitazone in type 2 diabetes.” set out to clarify some of the risks and benefits of using the diabetes drug Actos (pioglitazone).
The authors state “All therapeutic…
In 2012, an article was published in Urology titled “Association between pioglitazone and urothelial bladder cancer.” by Y. Barbalat et al. that aimed to “present the current literature reporting the association between pioglitazone and bladder cancer.” To be clear, “pioglitazone” is the chemical name for the diabetes drug, Actos, manufactured by Takeda…
A recent article published in the August, 2013 edition of Hepatology by CH Chang et al. titled “Association of thiazolidinediones with liver cancer and colorectal cancer in type 2 diabetes mellitus” studied the connection between certain diabetes drugs and cancer. Thiazolidinediones are a class of diabetes drugs including Actos and others.
This team…
Recently, a federal court has ordered that the manufacturers of the diabetes drug Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride, by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co.) pay $9 billion in damages when it was determined that these companies failed to warn the public of cancer risks associated with their medication.
Though some legal experts believe that…
In 2011, Robert Elford Ryder published a report in the medical journal The Lancet titled “Pioglitazone and bladder cancer” which discusses the link between diabetes drug Actos (Tadeka Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) and bladder cancer.
At the outset of his piece, Ryder states “In June, 2011, the French and German regulatory bodies suspended pioglitazone over…
In 2013, a team of researchers led by MT Bazelier published a paper titled “Use of thiazolidinediones and risk of bladder cancer: disease or drugs?”, where it is stated “Pioglitazone, a drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus has been associated with bladder cancer in observational studies” but that “Diabetes mellitus…
In 2014, a team of researchers led by SM Jin published the results of a study that aimed to determined if low doses of pioglitazone (Actos) also raised the risk for bladder cancer among diabetic patients. It has already been demonstrated by many other studies that long-term and high-dose Actos therapy dramatically raises the risk…
In 2012, a study was published titled “Association between longer therapy with thiazolidinediones and risk of bladder cancer: a cohort study.” that aimed to evaluate the connection between the thiazolidinedione class of diabetes drugs (e.g. Actos) and bladder cancer. The study appeared in Journal of the National Cancer Institute and was prepared by…
A 2011 article published in Diabetes Care by C. Piccinni et al. titled “Assessing the association of pioglitazone use and bladder cancer through drug adverse event reporting.” set out to “analyze the association between pioglitazone [(Actos)] use and bladder cancer through a spontaneous adverse event reporting system for medications.”
To obtain data for…