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Accutane IBD Trial Underway

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Atlantic City, NJA lawsuit alleging Accutane inflammatory bowel disease derailed an actor's career is now underway in New Jersey. The Accutane IBD lawsuit, filed by James Marshall, alleges that problems linked to Accutane side effects forced the actor to give up his dreams of becoming a star.

According to a press release by Courtroom View Network, actors including Martin Sheen, Brian Dennehy and Esai Morales are expected to testify at the trial about the career that James Marshall could have had if he had not developed inflammatory bowel disease. Director Rob Reiner is also expected to testify. Marshall, who starred in the movie A Few Good Men and also starred in the television series Twin Peaks, alleges Accutane caused the inflammatory bowel disease, which eventually required the removal of his colon.

In addition to James Marshall, two other plaintiffs, Gillian Gaghan and Kelley Andrews, are involved in the trial. Marshall's lawsuit was scheduled for the summer of 2010 but was delayed when a New Jersey Appellate Division reversed an Accutane award in Kamie Kendall's lawsuit against Hoffman-La Roche.

Kendall was initially awarded $10.5 million in a lawsuit but that decision was reversed on appeal, with the court finding the defendant was improperly prevented from providing evidence about the number of people who have used Accutane. Kendall's lawsuit is now expected to be heard in May 2011.

Hoffman-La Roche, maker of Accutane before it was pulled from the market, faces approximately 3,000 lawsuits in New Jersey state court alleging the acne medication is linked to inflammatory bowel disease. The first Accutane lawsuit was reportedly filed in September 2004, with the 3,000th lawsuit filed in February 2011. The lawsuits, which are consolidated in a mass tort, allege the maker of Accutane failed to properly research potential Accutane side effects and failed to warn about the risk of inflammatory bowel disease.

Patients who develop inflammatory bowel disease may eventually require removal of all or part of their colon. They often experience severe pain and say the condition can have a devastating effect on their life.

So far, six lawsuits have been heard by a jury, with Roche losing all six cases. Roche successfully appealed an award of $2.62 million, to have a different jury award the same plaintiff more than $25 million.

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Many of the Accutane lawyers are not representing all that have suffered from this drug. This drug 13-cis retinoic acid is used many other drugs such as Renova 0.05% and 0.02% and was not labeled on the package containing this horrific molecule. The Transcript of 1990 on Accutane and Renova states that accutane isotretinoin was used in Renova and that they knew it caused vision problems, migraines, and irritable bowel syndrome and Crohns and birth defects. None of this was listed on Renova packaging. Only the patent stated it and now via the FOIA Act I received the NDA 19963 that clearly stated this. They knew this was a carcingenic and it should not be prescribed to melanoma patients and that was not listed. DMSO was involved in the chemistry and that is a known carcingenic. It causes irritable bowel syndrome and intestinal obstructions. Phosphorous is used in this chemistry and is listed as a poison with the Pharmacopeia as all agents used in Renova were listed and their toxicities from skin rashes, burns and blisters, migraines, dental carries, sinus problems, bone depletion, fractures of the bones, Keratitis, and blepharnephritis, severe abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea and constipation that many of the chemicals used in combination with this chemo drug that was found to be too toxic for cancer patients, yet, dermatologist thought it was okay to prescribe to women and children and men for skin disorders. Tolene and cyclohexane and other gases used in these agents are toxic. Yet, no one is helping those of us who suffered severe adverse events from these agents. The Transcript of 1990 states that Johnson and Johnson and Hoffman and LaRoche depend on doctors reporting adverse events and that doctors are not doing their jobs. Had physicians done their jobs these toxic retinoid products would not have been approved on the market. The Pharmacopeia states these agents are not to be used on humans, yet they are being used on humans. Had the FDA and Johnson and Johnson reacted to my adverse event in 2000, which I had filed with both, Renova 0.02% wouldn't have been approved. Johnson and Johnson made a committment in having Renova approved that they would follow up on all future reactions this drug might have on humans. To date Johnson and Johnson has never seen me to investigate the horrific reactions I have endured. No one is telling the entire truth on how many injuries have been sustained by this toxic drug and how many products contained it that are not properly labeled. These drugs contain nuclea radioactive agents such as tritium and stated in the Transcript of 1990. This drugs are not being labeled radioactive violating the law on proper labeling.

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