Accutane Lawyers and Attorneys

Isotretinoin, also known as Accutane, is a medication used to treat severe acne. It is usually given after all other acne treatments have been used and found to be unsuccessful. It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1982, to treat severe resistant nodular cystic acne, which is a painful, disfiguring [...]

Originally FDA approved in 1982, Accutane was prescribed for patients whose severe acne didn’t respond to traditional treatments.  More than 13 million people have been prescribed the drug. As the years passed, many users reportedly suffered severe side effects including, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease, depression and suicidal thoughts, birth defects, [...]

Accutane was a drug manufactured  to treat extreme acne. Unfortunately, it has run into a string of problems causing label changes, the most recent of which is its association with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in patients who had never shown signs of the disease before taking Accutane  IBD still persisted in many after they stopped [...]

In an attempt to control his acne, Andrew McCarrell started taking Accutane as prescribed by his doctor from June 1995 through October 1995. A year later, in November 1996, he was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. His symptoms led to the removal of his colon and five other surgeries. He retained a lawyer to sue [...]

There have been some compelling studies in the last few years linking use of the acne drug Accutane to the development of some serious and debilitating conditions. While just about all drugs have side effects, the extremely harmful side effects of Accutane have led to a number of successful civil personal injury lawsuits against the [...]

Though Accutane was removed from the United States market in June 2009, it is still sold under the brand names Amnesteem, Claravis, Sotret, and the generic name Isotretinoin. The medication is prescribed for cases of severe scarring acne after other acne medications and antibiotics fail to produce satisfactory results. Accutane reduces the amount of oil [...]

The drug Accutane was used to treat severe cases of acne until its removal from the United States market in 2009. While this drug was very effective in treating acne, it was also known to cause quite a few serious and debilitating side effects. In fact, there have been quite a few successful civil lawsuits [...]

Accutane is generally used to treat extreme acne cases. In fact, it was originally developed for use in chemotherapy. It carries along with it the possibility of serious side effects, and hence is not recommended for all patients. Since Accutane is taken internally and does not act specifically act at any one location, its effects [...]

Nearly everyone experiences the embarrassment of acne during adolescence. However, most acne cases are mild and respond well to over-the-counter medications. Unfortunately, many people still suffer from severe acne into early adulthood. The last resort treatment for this type of acne has often been an oral prescription known as Accutane or Isotretinoin. Accutane has been linked [...]

Accutane, a drug used to treat severe acne, was taken off the United States market by the manufacturer  in 2009. The company claimed that its decision to discontinue production of Accutane was a purely business decision resulting from a shrinking share of the market since the release of generic alternatives. However, some of the severe [...]