Serevent Diskus Lawsuit

Serevent Diskus Side Effects

              Servent Diskus, a salmeterol xinafoate inhalation powder, is a plastic inhalation delivery system that is specially designed containing a double foil blister strip of powder formulation used to treat asthma and to prevent bronchospasm in patients. The powder formulation consist of 50mcg sameterol assalmeterol xinafoate salt in 12.5mg of formulation containing milk protein.

Serevent Diskus is indicated for maintenance treatment of asthma and to prevent bronchospasm. Serevent Diskus can only be used in patients 4 years of age or older and who have reversible obstructive airway disease. This includes patients with symptoms of nocturnal asthma.

Xigris Side Effects Lawsuit

              Xigros, a drotrecogin alfa drug, is used for the intravenous treatment of sepsis. This drug is a recombinant form of human activated protein C and is supplied as preservative-free, lyophilized, sterile, white to off-white powder for intravenous infusion. The vials are 5 to 20 mg and contain 5.3mg and 20.8mg of drotrecogin alfa (activated). The vials also contain 40.3 and 158.1 mg of sodium chloride, 10.9 and 42.9 mg of sodium citrate, and 31.8 and 124.9 mg of sucrose.

              Drotrecogin alfa (activated) is a serine protease with the same amino acid sequence as human plasma-derived activated protein C and is a glycoprotein of approximately 55 kilodalton molecular weight, consisting of a heavy chain and a light chain linked by a disulfide bond. Human plasma-derived activated protein C and Drotrecogin alfa (activated) have the same sites of glycosylation, although some differences in the glycosylation structures exist

Wellbutrin Side Effects Lawsuit

              Wellburtrin, bupropion hydrochloride Tablets, are used to treat major depressive disorder.  Supplied for oral administration, each prescription consist of either 75mg gold tablets or 100mg red, film coated tablets. The labeled amount of bupropion hydrochloride is present in each tablet as well as the following inactive ingredients:

75mg tablet

·       D&C Yellow No. 10 Lake

·       FD&C Yellow No. 6 Lake

·       Hydroxypropyl Cellulose

·       Polyethylene glycol

·       Talc

·       Titanium Dioxide

·       Hypromellose

·       Microcrystalline Cellulose

100mg Tablet

·       FD&C Red No. 40 Lake

·       FD&C Yellow No. 6 Lake

·       Hydroxypropyl Cellulose

·       Hypromellose

·       Microcrystalline Cellulose

·       Polyethylene Glycol

·       Talc

·       Titanium Dioxide

Bupropion hydrochloride produces the feeling of local anesthesia on the oral mucosa and is a powder that is crystalline, white, and soluble highly in water.

Wellbutrin, closely resembling the structure of diethylpropion, is an antidepressant that belongs to the aminoketone class and is unrelated chemically to selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, tricyclic, tetracyclic, and other known antidepressant agents.

Elidel Side Effects Lawsuit

              Elidel, a pimecrolimus cream, is used as the second-line therapy, in non- immunocompromised adults and children 2 years of age and older, for short-term and non-continuous chronic treatment of mild to moderate atopic dermatitis in patients who have failed to respond adequately to other topical prescription treatments or when other topical prescription treatments are not advisable.

              Elidel is available in a 30 gram tube, a 60 gram tube, and a 100 gram tube and the cream contains the immunosuppressant 33-epi-chloro-derivative of the macrolactam ascomycin called pimecrolimus. 10mg of pimecrolimus is contained in each gram of Elidel Cream 1%. The pimecrolimus is contained in a whitish cream base of cetyl alcohol, benzyl alcohol, citric acid, oleyl alcohol, propylene glycol, sodium cetostearyl sulphate, mono-glycerides, di-glycerides, sodium hydroxide, stearyl alcohol, triglycerides, and water. The cream should be stored at 77°F and the excursions are permitted to 59°F-86°F. The cream is not to be frozen.

              The compound pimecrolimus is a fine crystalline, white to off-white powder that is soluble in methanol and ethanol but is not soluble in water. It has a molecular weight of 810.47 and is chemically (1R,9S,12S,13R,14S,17R,18E,21S,23S,24R,25S,27R)-12-[(1E)-2-{(1R,3R,4S)-4-chloro- 3-methoxycyclohexyl}-1-methylvinyl]-17-ethyl-1,14-dihydroxy-23,25-dimethoxy- 13,19,21,27-tetramethyl-11,28-dioxa-4-aza-tricyclo[22.3.1.04,9]octacos-18-ene-2,3,10,16- tetraone. The empirical formula for the compound is C43H68CINO11.

Elidel Side Effects Lawsuit