Robert J. Boumis  |  July 9, 2014

Category: Legal News

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low t lawsuitThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month mandated that the manufacturers of testosterone-boosting drugs include warnings related to blood clots. This includes “low-T” drugs like AndroGel, and others.

There has been a recent boom in low-T drugs, which testosterone product lawsuits allege is more the result of marketing than any kind of epidemiological shift. As males age, their bodies produce less and less testosterone. In some men, this decline is more pronounced than others, and they may find themselves suffering from a variety of symptoms, including fatigue, irritability, and declining libido. Low-T drugs are designed to increase the body’s level of androgens, the family of hormones that includes testosterone. This can alleviate many of these symptoms, but, as the FDA points out, they may radically increase a man’s risk of blood clots.

A blood clot-related complication is a major medical crisis. Though blood clotting is a normal part of the healing process after injury, it can misfire and endanger a person’s life. When a blood clot forms within the body, it can lodge in critical blood vessels, blocking life-giving oxygen and nutrients to tissues. Depending on what tissue the blood clot blocks, a person can experience a number of serious complications. For example, if the blood clot blocks the vessels that lead from the heart to the lungs, the patient can experience a pulmonary embolism. In the heart and brain, such a clot could cause a heart attack or stroke, respectively. These conditions can be lethal. Survivors can face lifelong complications.

The new warning will require the makers of low-T drugs to warn patients of the risk of blood clot related complications linked to their drugs. This warning will be on the packaging of the drug and be included in the insert included with them.

The makers of low-T drugs are facing testosterone gel lawsuits over allegations their drugs caused men to experience clot-related injuries. The testosterone product lawsuits against the makers of these drugs further allege that not only were drug manufacturers aware of these risks, but that they actively concealed them, putting patients’ lives at risk.

The lawsuits over low-T drugs has taken the form of a multidistrict litigation or low-T MDL. MDLs are a type of group lawsuit, similar in may ways to a class action lawsuit. In both MDLs and class action lawsuits, a group of individuals allege that they have suffered similar harms at the hands of the same defendant. Group litigation, like MDLs and class action lawsuits are both designed to help streamline the legal process by combining tens, hundreds, or even thousands, of individual lawsuits into a single legal action.

In general, testosterone drug lawsuits are filed individually by each plaintiff and are not class actions.

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