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Could Tumors Caused by Depo-Provera Have Been Avoided by a Safer Version Owned by Pfizer?

Oct 5, 2024

Shayna Slater, Anapol Weiss Women’s Health Ligitation Team Depo-Provera, a popular hormonal contraceptive, has been a go-to choice for many seeking birth control. Administered via injection every three months, it purported to offer convenience and effectiveness. However, there is now evidence that it also increased women’s risk of brain and spinal tumors, called meningiomas. A Safer Alternative Sadly, initial research suggests that Pfizer actually owned a safer alternative. While investigation continues, if Pfizer did, in fact, own a...

Depo-Provera Lawsuits: Yet Another Example of Women Fighting Back Against Harmful Drugs

Oct 4, 2024

By: Anapol Weiss Women’s Health Litigation Team Depo-Provera, the popular injectable contraceptive containing medroxyprogesterone acetate, has been marketed as a safe, convenient, long-term birth control solution. However, recent research has linked it to an increased risk of brain and spinal cord tumors (“meningiomas”). Depo-Provera: The Legal Fallout The first lawsuit against the drug’s manufacturer, Pfizer, was filed on October 1, 2024, accusing the pharmaceutical giant of failing to disclose the risks associated with long-term use of the drug...

Health Implications: How the Depo-Provera Lawsuit Highlights Women's Health Concerns

Oct 4, 2024

The birth control shot, a contraceptive delivered by injection every 12 weeks, has been hailed as a convenient alternative for women who don’t want to take birth control pills daily. Unfortunately, recent research findings have raised serious concerns about the safety of this medication. The recent Depo-Provera lawsuits are the latest mass tort legislation arising out of women’s health concerns. For patients who did or currently do use Depo-Provera for birth control, it’s important to understand...

Fighting for Women and Infants - That's What Motivates Me

Oct 4, 2024

[Excerpt from a conversation with Paola Pearson, a Partner on the Anapol Weiss Women's Health Litigation Team] In 2021, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl after years of fertility challenges. My experience with pregnancy and loss inspire my career as an attorney in ways I never imagined. Birth Injuries Caused by Negligence My personal fight to become a mother motivates me to fight for the victims of senseless birth injuries that result in preventable and catastrophic...

Representing Women Catastrophically Injured by Transvaginal Mesh Implants

Oct 3, 2024

Excerpt from a conversation with Kila Baldwin, who has secured over $180 million in settlements for women injured by transvaginal mesh implants. Kila is one of the leaders of the Anapol Weiss Women's Health Litigation Team. I have tried cases for many women who were catastrophically injured by transvaginal mesh. Medical device manufacturers, like Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, Bard, and Coloplast marketed and sold transvaginal mesh for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and...

Consequences of Nurse Understaffing at Nursing Homes

Oct 2, 2024

Having enough nursing staff at a nursing home is crucial to ensuring that the home’s residents get the care and treatment they need. Fortunately, Pennsylvania has enacted a state minimum for nursing home staff levels, and that minimum just increased beginning July 1, 2024. Now, Pennsylvania nursing homes are required to have enough nursing staff to provide 3.2 hours PPD, or “per patient day. ” This is up from 2.87 PPD as of July 1,...

Recreational Helmets: Design Defects—Bicycle, Football and Motorcycling

Sep 30, 2024

Published in The Legal Intelligencer September 30, 2024 By Larry Coben, Anapol Weiss Excerpts from the article: No one has ever attempted any sort of retrospective study of the relationship between helmet design and the frequency or nature of injury. And yet the issue of the efficacy of helmet safety effects millions of Americans. Approximately 47 million Americans bicycle on a regular basis. In 2015, in the United States, over 1,000 bicyclists died and there were almost 338,000 bicycle-related injuries...

Female Patients at Jefferson Health Hospital are Forced to Cope with the Consequences of Incorrect Mammogram Result Failures

Sep 26, 2024

Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia, formerly Einstein Medical Center, was recently cited by local health inspectors for providing incorrect mammogram results to patients. Sarah Gantz authored an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer dated September 26, 2024, wherein she describes how Jefferson Einstein (“Einstein”) incorrectly informed patients their mammogram results showed “no sign of breast cancer.” However, these patients subsequently learned the results were inconclusive requiring follow-up. This news comes after at least two women have reported receiving incorrect...

Hospital Chain Acadia Healthcare Must Be Held Accountable for its Systemic Abuse of Patients at its Taxpayer-Funded Residential Treatment Facilities

Sep 19, 2024

“Bold action” is needed says Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, to address a long-term series of horrific abuse and neglect by residential and outpatient facilities owned and operated by hospital chain Acadia Healthcare.[1] Just this month alone, the New York Times published three different articles exposing a widespread systemic series of sexual and physical assaults, neglect, and entrapment by psychiatric facilities owned and operated by Acadia.[2]This nationwide attention comes after a bombshell May 2024...

Crashworthiness: Assessing When Catastrophic Injuries from Vehicle Accidents are Caused by Failures in Design

Sep 18, 2024

{Preface: Coben has a long history of winning crashworthiness cases against vehicle manufacturers. In 2024, he and Anapol Weiss shareholder Kila Baldwin won a $20.7 million verdict against Honda Motor Company for a faulty motorcycle gas cap design.} Cars, pick-up trucks, SUVs, vans, motorcycles and over-the-road trucks must all be built to be crashworthy. That means that they must be designed to minimize the risk of serious and catastrophic injury in crashes. The scope of this...