Where you have been prescribed a drug to which you are allergic, you do not need or has been incorrectly prescribed and which causes or furthers health problems for you, you could be entitled to claim compensation for a pharmaceutical injury on the basis that you have been negligently prescribed pharmaceutical drugs – a type of medical negligence claim.
In instances where drugs have been wrongly prescribed by your doctor, or the pharmaceutical drugs themselves have been defective, you may be entitled to make a pharmaceutical claim against ether your doctor, the manufacturer or retailer of such drugs.
Some of the drugs that people commonly claim pharmaceutical compensation for having been wrongly prescribed include the following;
• Vioxx – this is a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug which was used to treat painful conditions such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis but withdrawn from the market in 2004
• Myodil – a dye that was commonly used until 1987 and was injected into the spine or spinal cord of patients with back injuries to make x-rays clearer
• MMR – the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccination given to children
• Imuran – commonly given to stop the body from rejecting a transplanted organ
This is certainly not an exhaustive list and there will, sadly, be many instances where other drugs are prescribed negligently. If you feel you have been the victim of negligently prescribed medication, a specialist compensation solicitor from our team can advise you whether you had the grounds for a pharmaceutical compensation claim, and if so help you to claim compensation.
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