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: Illinois Medical Malpractice BlogSupreme Court Will Decide if Drug Companies Can Hide Behind FDA
By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti
The Supreme Court will hear a case next term that could decide whether drug companies may escape liability for harm caused by their products and hide behind FDA approval. The issue in the case involves Johnson & Johnson?s prescription birth control patch, Ortho Evra, which delivered much more estrogen than the company originally disclosed. The Ortho Evra patch was a popular form of birth control as an alternative to the birth control pill. For women, medication dosing errors of estrogen may cause an increased risk of blood clots and strokes and has been linked to one death.
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Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).
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