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Trasylol Linked to Kidney Failure and Death
It is among one of the more egregious examples of greed by a big pharmaceutical company ever exposed.
Bayer’s Trasylol is now off the market after an estimated 22,000 patients lost their lives after being given the drug.
Used to reduce bleeding during open heart surgery, a recent 60 Minutes report found that drug maker, Bayer AG, withheld from an FDA safety review panel, vital yet negative information about kidney failure requiring dialysis, heart attack, stroke and death among patients on Trasylol.
The FDA panel chairman said that had he known about the number of deaths from Trasylol, he would not have voted in 2006 to keep the drug on the market.
In May, 2008 results from a large Canadian clinical trial on Trasylol (aprotinin), known as BART, confirmed earlier findings. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it finds Trasylol led to an increase in the chance of death by 54 percent when compared to the other two, less expensive drugs commonly used during heart surgery.
In January 2006, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that more than 4,000 coronary bypass artery graft patients given Trasylol suffered twice the risk of renal (kidney) failure and stroke and had a 55 percent increase in the occurrences of heart failure or heart attack.
As many as one-third of heart surgery patients received the drug during its 14 years on the market after an aggressive, negligent and deceptive marketing campaign.
If you or a loved one experienced kidney failure after heart surgery, complications, heart attack, or stroke, you may have unknowingly received Trasylol in the hospital.
You need to contact a compassionate and knowledgeable Florida defective drug attorney today to help evaluate your case thoroughly, before the statute of limitations runs out.
Heparin Contamination Still A Mystery
Hundreds of people have had allergic reactions and so far 81are dead from contaminated batches of the blood thinner, heparin.
Heparin, made by Baxter International, has now been recalled from the U.S. market as well as Canada, Germany, France and Japan.
The FDA launched an investigation into the Chinese manufacturing plant where the raw material for heparin is made from pigs’ intestines obtained from unregulated local cottage industries. China is the largest supplier of raw heparin in the world.
The FDA found a contaminant in recalled vials, oversulphated condroitin sulphate, which is made from animal cartilage and is a cheaper alternative to raw heparin.
The contaminant may have been added intentionally at some point in the manufacturing process, according to the FDA which admits because of underfunding it had never inspected the Chinese facility.
Owned by Wisconsin-based Scientific Protein Laboratories, China is reportedly refusing to let the FDA inspect the plant.
Farah and Farah has been fielding calls from patients harmed by heparin and experiencing symptoms such as dizziness, difficulty breathing and nausea after heparin use.
If you or a loved one has been given the blood thinner and suffered an adverse reaction, contact our downtown Jacksonville law office.
Farah and Farah in the News
Local Attorneys Buy Easter Clothes For Children of Murdered Parents
Angela Williams
firstcoastnews.com
March 31, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Easter Sunday comes every year. This time around three-year-old Travis Boone Jr. will have a new suit to wear.
He's not alone. His brother and sister will also get new Easter clothes thanks to a local attorney's office. For three years Charlie Farah and his brother Eddie have bought easter presents for children of a murdered parent.
"Everybody thinks about the Easter holiday as kind of a rebirth, and we think the kids are important when you think about that. We need to get back to the community, and this is a way to do it," says attorney Charlie Farah of Farah and Farah Law Firm.
When the children's grandmother, Elizabeth Toole, found out what they were going to do for her son's children, she was touched.
"Just to know that they're happy. That's what I work for every morning, all day to make sure they're happy and safe," says Toole.
Jeremy Travis Boone Sr. was brutally murdered back in September of 2007. Since then, Toole adopted the three children and looks after her other 16-year-old son.
"He was a good father, he was a good son, he was a good friend," says Toole.
Each year more children are added to the list for victims of slain families. As long as there are names, Farah says they will do their part to give back.
"I don't know if anything can bring a family back from experiencing that, but this is maybe some way of giving back to them to show them there are people that care, and hopefully there are better times ahead," says Farah.
Farah & Farah continue to partner with the Children of Slain Families organization in order to make the Easter shopping spree possible.
This year they will be shopping for eight children.
Brunswick Church Can't Wait to Witness History
Ashley Coleman
firstcoastnews.com
January 18, 2009
BRUNSWICK, GA -- 15-year-old Andrew Carnes will be getting a history lesson at our nation's capital this week.
The Brunswick High School student will join millions of Americans for Tuesday's inauguration when Barack Obama becomes our 44th president.
"You never would think you would see an African American president welcomed to the White House," says Carnes. "It's like Martin Luther King spoke and he left the door open for Barack Obama just to walk in."
Carnes is one of 56 members of the First Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist Church traveling by bus to Washington D.C.
Dorothy Hill is another church member going on the trip. She grew up during the civil rights movement and only dreamed about a moment like this.
"I had hopes that one day someone would rise up and face the challenge and I'm excited that it's Obama," Hill told First Coast News.
Four teens from the church received scholarships for the trip from Jacksonville attorney Eddie Farah. They were chosen after writing essays about why the teens wanted to attend the inauguration.
The church leaves at midnight for the nation's capital. They will return from their trip on Tuesday night.
If you have been injured in Jacksonville, please contact a skilled Florida personal injury lawyer at Farah and Farah today to discuss your case.