I’m a trial lawyer for injured people and businesses at The Beasley Firm, founded in 1958. Our clients have been awarded over $2 billion through hundreds of verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million. We’re listed in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, U.S. News’s Top Lawyers, et cetera. The [...]
Do The Drugs Januvia, Byetta and Victoza Cause Pancreatic Cancer?
[Update, March 2013: I originally wrote this post in December 2012. Three months later, the FDA announced it "is evaluating unpublished new findings by a group of academic researchers that suggest an increased risk of pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas, and pre-cancerous cellular changes called pancreatic duct metaplasia in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with a class of drugs called incretin mimetics." Several news agencies ran with the news, including AP and Bloomberg, as did some pharma industry bloggers. The JAMA Internal Medicine medical journal ran a column urging more research into the link between the drugs and pancreatic cancer, an ... Continue Reading
The Arbitrary Tragedy of Cancer Misdiagnosis
Misdiagnosis is the most common type of medical malpractice case – roughly one-quarter of all claims – and the failure to diagnose cancer is the most common form of misdiagnosis that results in a malpractice claim. (For those interested in the statistics, the most commonly missed cancers are breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.) I thus spend a lot of time thinking and talking about cancer as part of my legal practice, but over the past two weeks it has seemed like cancer has been a part of almost everything I've read and discussed. Last week, I had to ... Continue Reading
