Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding member and partner
Please read the front-page of the Business Day section of the New York Times (11/3, B1, Thomas, Subscription Publication, 1.23M), which reported that blockbuster anticlotting drug Pradaxa is producing deaths from unstoppable bleeding, and critics are taking aim at the FDA “because it allowed a potentially dangerous drug to be sold without an option for reversing its effects.” Unlike warfarin, Pradaxa – or dabigatran – has no antidote to stop its blood-thinning ability. The Times adds, “Pradaxa is an example, some critics say, of what can happen when a drug that performs well in tightly controlled trials is released into the messy world of real-life medicine. Boehringer Ingelheim said it was working on developing an antidote but that even without one, patients in a large clinical trial died at roughly the same rate as those who were taking warfarin.”
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. The association has recently named him the ” 2011 Trial Lawyer of the Year“. He has also been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri was recently (2012 edition) acknowledged as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Best Lawyers, and has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2012)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in the country.
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