XARELTO CASES MIGHT BE SETTLED BUT THE BATTLE FOR JUSTICE AGAINST DRUG MANUFACTURERS CONTINUES
In the spring of 2019, Xarelto manufacturers Bayer and Johnson & Johnson had to pay a settlement of $775 million to roughly 25,000 people who claimed that the drug, prescribed as a blood thinner, led to serious bleeding events. We at Shuttlesworth Law Firm were more than happy to help anyone who had been hurt by taking Xarelto get the justice they deserve. Unfortunately, Xarelto isn’t the only drug on the market that can harm its users. Earlier this year in April, the FDA ordered that all manufacturers of the drug Zantac recall it from shelves. The recall was due to the presence of nitrosodimethylamine
(NDMA), a substance with links to cancer. As if that didn’t already make the drug dangerous enough, the contaminant NDMA builds up when the drug is stored for extended periods of time, meaning the longer it stays on shelves, the more likely it is to potentially harm those who take it. Zantac belongs to a group of drugs known as histamine-2 blockers. These drugs decrease acid levels in your stomach, thereby lessening a person’s susceptibility to ulcers. It can also be used as heartburn relief. It’s available to buy without a prescription all over the country, which is particularly troubling, considering how harmful the drug can be.
nausea, fever, and vomiting, taking Zantac can also lead to various forms of cancer, including liver cancer, stomach cancer, brain cancer, leukemia, and several others. What’s truly shocking, however, is that manufacturers of Zantac have known about potential NDMA contamination since the 1980s. That means that these manufacturers have known for nearly four decades that their drug could cause users to get cancer — and they did nothing to stop it. Zantac lawsuits continue to pop up. Hopefully, as was the case with Xarelto users, those affected by Zantac will be compensated for their conditions. It takes consistent pressure from an experienced legal counsel, like the attorneys at Shuttlesworth Law Firm to get drug manufacturers to admit to their wrongdoing. Call us today at (205) 322-1411.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT A CHEF’S HAT HAS EXACTLY 100 PLEATS?
Everyone knows what a chef’s hat looks like. It’s called a toque, in case you didn’t know that. If you didn’t know that, then you definitely didn’t know that “official” chefs’ toques all have exactly 100 pleats. The French were the first to elevate the chef profession to great esteem in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and attached to that new esteem was a standard chef’s uniform that distinguished chefs from just anyone
with a bowl and ladle. For reasons that aren’t quite certain, part of that standard uniform was a toque with exactly 100 pleats. One theory is that the 100 pleats are a nod to the number of ways you can cook an egg, but depending on which French cookbook you use, there could be under 100 recipes containing eggs, or well over that amount. So someone has some egg-splaining to do about the pleats ...
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