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Women are safer because of drug and device lawsuits, report says.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Litigation has been so critical in exposing the pharmaceutical industry's misconduct in marketing unsafe medical drugs and devices to women that immunity from lawsuits for drug companies would be catastrophic, concludes The Bitterest Pill: How Drug Companies Fail to Protect Women and How Lawsuits Save Their Lives, a report released by the consumer rights group Center for Justice and Democracy.

"Lawsuits step in as the last line of defense against unsafe drugs and devices, forcing them off the market, compelling doctors to better alert women as to clear risks, or providing the financial incentive for companies to make drugs and devices safer," said Amanda Melpolder of...

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