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How Do You Know if Your Medication Has Been Recalled? If you just picked up a new prescription or over-the-counter medication from the pharmacy or supermarket, you may be worried about its safety and whether it has been recalled. But the fact that you were still able to purchase it means that it’s unlikely that the medication has been recalled. Typically, recalled medications are removed (more...)

The Leading Cause of Liver Failure in the U.S. May Be in Your Medicine Cabinet The over-the-counter pain reliever aisles at supermarkets and pharmacies are huge. There are countless brands and formulations available, but most fall into four categories: Ibuprofen Aspirin Naproxen Acetaminophen All four of these pain relievers are effective at reducing the severity of pain, and they all have the potential to cause certain side effects. But acetaminophen (more...)

What’s the Difference Between an Individual and Class-Action Lawsuit? When people suffer serious drug injuries after taking dangerous prescription or over-the-counter medications, they usually aren’t the only ones. That’s because the complications they suffered are liable to happen to anyone, but the manufacturers of the medications either hid their knowledge of that or failed to properly test their products to learn of those dangers. (more...)

How Bad Does a Drug Injury Have to Be to Sue the Manufacturer? All prescription and over-the-counter drugs have the potential to cause patients to suffer adverse effects, reactions, and complications. In most cases, those adverse effects are already known and accounted for by their manufacturers and are listed as side effects. But sometimes, patients suffer complications that aren’t publicized side effects, and these can be constituted as (more...)