Posts tagged Birth Injury

• Jury Awards $22.6 Million For Birthing Injury

  Scott Kappes | May 21, 2008 2:35 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A jury has awarded $22.6 million to a Cincinnati woman whose daughter suffered brain damage as a result of medical birthing mistake. In 1997 Heather Grow, pregnant with her first child, was...

• Paxil and Birth Defects

  Robert Binstock | June 15, 2007 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Food and Drug Administration issued a health alert on September 27, 2005, to medical professionals and that GlaxoSmithKline changed the labeling on their popular antidepressant Paxil to reflect growing concerns about birth defects. Women that took Paxil during their first three months of pregnancy were one and a half to two and a half times more like to have a baby with a serious heart...

• Mounting Problems with Paxil

  Dian Rosier | February 23, 2007 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Since 1992, when the FDA first gave its approval for the release of Paxil in the U.S. market, it has been one long rollercoaster ride for the drug manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK. Generating annual sales of up to 2 billion dollars, Paxil has been prescribed for the treatment of depression, and a large variety of other "disorders", many of which the American public had never heard of before...

• Parents File $150M Suit for Birth Injury

  Christina Cole | February 08, 2007 1:01 AM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Parents of twin boys have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging one of their sons will never have a normal life and the blame is pointing to a military hospital.The parents are filing a suit for $150 million against Naval Hospital accusing the staff and doctors and staff of medical malpractice. The parents say the boy is brain damaged from a birth injury during delivery.The hospital...