When you seek medical care and take prescriptions ordered by your doctor, you expect these medications to help you feel better. You expect safe, tested products when you pick up your pills or other form of medication at a pharmacy, or when you go under anesthetics during an operation in a hospital. What you do not expect is to suffer harm because a drug manufacturer released drugs that had not been properly tested — or worse, to be given drugs that had proven harmful in testing, without proper warning.
If you have a serious medical condition and have tried for a long time to find relief, you may be willing to act as a "guinea pig" and take experimental medications. However, you naturally want to be told all the facts about known risks when you agree to take potentially dangerous drugs that are still being tested. Drug recalls are sometimes a clue that a pharmaceutical manufacturer knew more than it had been disclosing to patients who were receiving those drugs through prescriptions. Sometimes it is discovered the drug companies were giving doctors incentives to promote drugs that were still in testing phases.
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Did you suffer harm after taking a medication that was later part of an Iowa drug recall? Attorney advice at this point is strongly advisable. Galligan & Reid, P.C., is prepared to help you explore your legal options. We may advise you on how to join a class action suit or initiate a class action lawsuit against a drug manufacturer. We may discover that your prescribing physician or pharmacist bore responsibility for not alerting you to risks involved.
Get answers, get help, get compensation that is due to you. Contact us by phone or e-mail to schedule a consultation with a products liability lawyer.
