The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has kept information about drugs and medical devices from the public for a long time. Some product makers refer to trade secrecy even when the FDA suspects the products cause personal injury or wrongful death.
This firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers believe that companies who are in the business of providing drugs and medical treatments to consumers should not hide information about the safety of their products. Dangerous drugs and product liability can cause personal injury or wrongful death especially due to faulty or inadequate testing before the drug is sold to the public.
Many drugs have been linked to personal injury in the last decade because the F.D.A. has treated clinical trial results of drugs and devices as trade secrets. For example, Avandia, a diabetes medicine made by GlaxoSmithKline, increased the risk of heart attack by over 40 percent. The F.D.A. knew about the risk for two years.
Trade secrets include company plans to test experimental medicines, the complete results of most clinical trials and the F.D.A.’s reasons for rejecting a company’s application to sell a product to the public. A new task force within the F.D.A. would recommend ways to reveal more information about F.D.A. decisions.
Drug companies and medical device makers should be 100 percent informative about the products and drugs they make. Dangerous drugs can cause personal injury to the liver and kidneys as well as wrongful death. Medical device makers of products like pace makers can cause wrongful death if they malfunction in a time of need.
As personal injury attorneys in San Diego who handle drug malpractice, we know how dependent many people are on medications and medical devices approved by the F.D.A. An agency that is required to ensure the safety of patients should not have questions raised about it. Doubt reduces trust, and patients need to be able to trust the F.D.A. is doing what it was designed to do.
Please contact us for a FREE CONSULTATION with an experienced dangerous prescription drug personal injury lawyer — in either English or Spanish — at (800) 655-6585 or click here to submit your case for a Free Review.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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