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Linda Weadock, on behalf of her deceased husband George Weadock, and Willie Criss and Frank Heppel, have filed a $5 million product liability lawsuit against drug maker Actavis and drug distributor Mylan Pharmaceuticals, claiming their heart medication Digitek contained more than twice the active ingredient and caused serious injury or death.
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories has alerted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is issuing a consumer-level recall of all tablets of the generic medication Caraco brand Digoxin, USP, 0.125 mg, and Digoxin, USP, 0.25 mg, distributed prior to March 31, 2009, which are not expired and are within the expiration date of September, 2011. The drugs are being voluntarily recalled. The tablets may differ in size and could contain more or less of the active ingredient, digoxin.
Individuals suing manufacturers of Digitek heart medicine must fill out lengthy and detailed fact sheets on their medical history and allow no secrets from their past, according to The West Virginia Record.
The fact sheets will be used in court to determine whether Mylan Pharmaceuticals of West Virginia, Actavis US and DUL Laboratories misrepresented Digitek as safe and whether physicians and patients relied on those “misrepresentations and deceptions” in choosing to use the heart medicine.
Wim Michna understood the power of medicine. He was a physician in Marin County, California. In the early 2000s, he received an arterial bypass and shortly thereafter was prescribed Digitek, also known as digoxin, by his personal doctor to strengthen and regulate his heartbeat. He remained on the medication for two years until another doctor advised him to stop. While taking the medication, Dr. Michna’s kidneys failed and he suffered from heart palpitations, dizziness, weakness and other symptoms that made another physician order a blood test. The test revealed what the symptoms were alluding to – that Dr. Michna was suffering from the ill effects of digoxin poisoning. The level of digoxin in his body was several times higher than the maximum allowable. It was too late to save him. Dr. Michna died just months after the toxicity was identified. He was 80.
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