Personal Injury Law

Drug Injury Prevention Attracts Medical Doctors Support

Injury from dangerous drugs can be devastating. As Orlando injury lawyers we have seen too many needless tragedies when profits are put before consumer safety. Recently, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine came to the defense of consumers by submitting a brief in a case before the United States Supreme Court.

The editors wrote in the brief that although Federal Drug Administration is seen as "the gold standard" for evaluating drugs, the agency "simply lacks the ability to serve as the sole guarantor of drug safety." If drug makers were shielded from lawsuits related to their treatments, "FDA would be stripped of an essential source of information that the agency has consistently relied on when making its regulatory decisions, and the American public would be deprived of a vital deterrent against pharmaceutical company misconduct," the NEJM editors wrote. These medical doctors and those they represent importantly reported that almost two dozen drugs that were approved by the Federal Drug Administration have been withdrawn from the market since 1997 because of safety hazards.

These medical doctors provide support for product liability lawsuits against giant drug makers. With evidence that many drugs satisfied the low governmental standards only to be proven too dangerous after being placed on the market, the courts must remain accessible to protect consumers' risks.

Full post as published by Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).