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October 15, 2013

Janssen’s Topamax Users Blame Seizure Drug for Birth Defects

Quoted from http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-15/janssen-s-topamax-users-blame-seizure-drug-for-birth-defects-1 

Janssen’s Topamax Users Blame Seizure Drug for Birth Defects

By Sophia Pearson
Bloomberg News
October 15, 2013

Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals failed to inform expectant mothers of risks that its epilepsy drug Topamax could cause birth defects, a lawyer for the mother of a Virginia 6-year-old told a jury.

April Czimmer wouldn’t have taken Topamax for more than six months had she known the risks associated with the drug, her attorney Tommy Fibich said in opening statements today in state court in Philadelphia.

Czimmer blames the drug for her son’s cleft palate and lip and claims Janssen negligently failed to inform patients about its risks until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings in 2011.

“It is the pharmaceutical equivalent of a drive-by shooting,” Fibich said. “The pharmaceutical company, when they put this drug out into the market knowing it has these causes, they don’t know who it’s going to hit.”

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Posted at 03:47 PM in Topamax |

Tags: birth defects, drug injury lawsuits, epilepsy drug, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, migraines, off-label, Topamax

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