drug law

ProPublica and This American Life put together a pretty amazing reporting project about how 150 Americans die every year by taking too much acetaminophen, Tylenol's active ingredient, and that there were decades-long delays in providing updated consumer warnings that using too much of over-the-counter painkillers with acetaminophen could lead to liver toxicity and even death. This spring, I reported for The Legal Intelligencer that a federal multidistrict litigation for plaintiffs who allege that their use of over-the-counter Tylenol caused their livers to fail or be poisoned was approved to be presided in front of U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/PubArticlePA.jsp?id=1202594695498&slreturn=201...

Many more cases may be generated in the MDL in light of this reporting project.

If you haven't read and/or listened to ProPublica and This American Life's reportage, here it is:

http://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-kids-dose-of-confusion

http://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-use-only-as-directed

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/use-only-as-d...

Read more: http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/PubArticlePA.jsp?id=1202594695498&slreturn=201...

http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/PubArticlePA.jsp?id=1202594695498&slreturn=201...