How pervasive is IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome?

Do you have irritable bowel syndrome, also known as IBS? If so, you are far from alone.

In fact, Americans face a virtual epidemic of IBS. It’s estimated that at least 45 million persons have IBS in the United States, with more female than male sufferers.

When is ulcerative colitis likely to strike?

If you are concerned that you may have an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis, you may want to know some information such as when and how ulcerative colitis is likely to strike.

In terms of age, that is most likely from age 15 until age 30, and then again from the age of 50 to 70. On the other hand, ulcerative colitis, or UC, can strike at any time in a person’s life.

What to do to cope with your Crohn’s disease

If you suffer from Crohn’s disease after taking defective drug Accutane, an acne medication that can trigger inflammatory bowel disease, we can help you with an Accutane lawsuit pressed by a defective drug lawyer.
But in the meantime, you must want to know what you can do to fend off your Crohn’s disease symptoms.

How can you cope with Crohn’

Easing IBD effects via treatment helps, but acne drug’s bowel disease has no cure

Does inflammatory bowel disease have a cure? Tragically, no. All that sufferers can do is seek treatment to lessen their misery and ease the disease’s effects.

But in another sense, that’s not all they can do regarding an IBD such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. If they’ve suffered such ailments after taking defective acne drug Accutane, they also can seek an Accutane lawsuit on their behalf.

Such a defective drug lawsuit may not ease their IBD side effects and discomfort, but it can provide needed financial help when facing IBD injury losses such as medical expenditures, present and future lost wages, and suffering and pain.

Crohn’s disease symptoms include diarrhea, ulcers, weight loss

Perhaps you suspect you may suffer from an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, known as Crohn’s disease. If so, you should be aware of common symptoms of this devastating condition.

Crohn’s disease can affect different people in different ways. For some, the disease’s inflammation is limited to the colon, or large intestine. For others, it may be present only in the small intestine.

What are Accutane side effects beyond IBDs such as Crohn’s, colitis?

It is established that defective drug Accutane, an acne medication, can cause such terrible and debilitating side effects as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

But did you know that the defective drug also can cause many more Accutane side effects, not all of which are as damaging as an IBD?
Such additional Accutane side effects even may manifest along with an IBD such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, while being separate and unrelated apart from the fact that they stem from Accutane usage.

Crohn’s disease can be accompanied by depression

If you suffer from Crohn’s disease, perhaps as a result of taking defective acne drug Accutane, you know that your ailment can extend beyond physical ordeals. It also can lead to depression.

Psychologists say many sufferers of the IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) known as Crohn’s experience negative emotions as a result. They may feel sad, angry, frustrated or depressed -- and that’s only human.

Accutane sufferers of Crohn’s disease need the facts

If you took acne drug Accutane and now suffer from the IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) known as Crohn’s Disease, you need to know the facts about your condition.

First you should know that the disease was given its name after Dr.Burrill B. Crohn, who joined two associates to publish a paper in 1932 which laid out the realities of the disease. In the year 2011, that disease persists, but sometimes for different reasons than existed in 1932.

Are Accutane lawsuits making progress against the defective drug?

For many people who suffer an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis after taking acne drug Accutane, the question may be asled: Are lawsuits against Accutane’s manufacturer prevailing in the legal arena?

The answer is yes. The tide is rising. Over 5,000 Accutane lawsuits have been filed against the defective drug’s manufacturer, Roche Pharmaceuticals, a Swiss-based company with American headquarters in New Jersey.
Not only that, but some Accutane lawsuits already have won for plaintiffs.

Fusobacterium can lead to deadly colon cancer, as can Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis

Scientists have found a link between colon cancer and fusobacterium, a bacterium which to date has been known to cause inflammatory maladies such as gum disease and appendicitis.

Now fusobacterium is being found in colon tumors, which indicates it may lead to colorectal cancer, which is second only to lung cancer in deadliness.

Diagnosing your Crohn’s or colitis bowel disease is a step toward financial recovery

Perhaps you suspect you’re suffering from an inflammatory bowel disease, or an IBD, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. But perhaps you’re uncertain enough that you resist seeing a doctor for a diagnosis.

In that case, you could start with some self-evaluation of your ailment to help guide you in a decision to see a physician.

What signs can constitute the possible presence of IBD? Among them is diarrhea, and not just any diarrhea, but extremes cases involving bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain. How extreme? You may need to go to the bathroom 10 to 12 times a day. That’s extreme.

Roche recalls Accutane, but that doesn’t stop its IBD injuries

Roche Pharmaceuticals, creator and seller of acne medication Accutane, recalled the defective drug from the market in America in 2009. But that doesn’t mean the world is safe from Accutane’s serious side effects, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) injuries such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Indeed, Accutane is still sold in many countries, including Canada. Also, Accutane remains available in America in generic form, as the acne drugs Sotret, Amnesteem and Claravis.

Accutane toll globally affects many thousands of bowel disease victims

When and for how long was defective acne medication Accutane sold to unsuspecting persons around the world? The total time was 27 years, from 1982 until 2009 -- and that’s not even counting the generic Accutane drugs which remain available today.

Over the course of those 27 years, an estimated 16 million persons globally took the defective drug Acutane,which can cause serious bowel disease injuries. And many of those 16 million have suffered due to acne drug Accutane.

Kids with IBD bowel disease rise, perhaps due to Accutane

IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, isn’t normally associated with young kids. But that’s changing in this modern era.

Indeed, at least 100,000 children in the United States now suffer from an IBD. That means they may have the lifelong and debilitating conditions known as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease.
This figure comes from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.

The figure could be even higher, because children often are not diagnosed with IBC in a timely manner. Instead, their maladies are presumed to be ordinary digestive ailments by their usual physician. After all, young children haven’t been associated with IBD in the past.

James Marshall loses but others win in Accutane lawsuits

Despite his years of suffering after taking Accutane, actor James Marshall lost his Accutane lawsuit when a New Jersey jury did not agree that his Accutane use conclusively caused his ulcerative colitis.

Marshall, 44, indicated under testimony that he’d suffered some intestinal problems before taking Accutane. But he also testified that he’d never suffered the extreme of rectal bleeding -- a sure sign of ulcerative colitis -- until a year after taking Accutane. (Marshall’s given name is Greenblatt, and the trial was named Greenblatt vs. Hoffman-La Roche.)

However, the same jury’s verdict in a trial involving three plaintiffs upheld the claim of Gillian Gaghan, 34. She received $2 million from the jury when it found that not only was Accutane to blame for her ulcerative colitis, but that she would not have taken the acne medication if she’d been alerted about its harmful Accutane side effects.

Accutane’s many victims include teens but also others worldwide

During its availability from 1982-2009, acne treatment Accutane was sold to about 16 million persons in various countries. Many were teens troubled by severe acne, but many others formed a wide range in ages and included both sexes.

Now all of them share one thing: the possibility of suffering an incurable, lifelong and debilitating bowel disease injury as a result of taking the prescribed yet defective acne drug. That’s why many are seeking Accutane lawsuits against the acne medication’s manufacturer, Swiss company Hoffman-La Roche, also known as Roche or as Roche Pharmaceuticals.

Their injuries can be traced to the chief active ingredient in Accutane: a potent and powerful drug called Isotretinoin. Isotretinoin does, in fact, fight acne, and it often produces successful acne treatment results. Indeed, Isotretinoin in Accutane has been shown to produce acne remission in 85 per cent of persons after a normal treatment course of four to five months.

But in the process of patients taking the oral medication, Isotretinoin also has triggered serious injury such as IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease. An IBD can be ulcerative colitis, or it can be Crohn’s disease, and either or both can be seriously damaging to human health.

IBD in children increases; acne drug Accutane to blame?

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was once highly unusual in children. But IBD in children is increasing alarmingly, especially the IBD known as Crohn’s disease (sometimes called Crohns disease). In fact, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America reports that over 100,000 American kids have IBD.

Making the problem worse is that many kids aren’t diagnosed promptly, but rather their ailments are mistaken for common gastrointestinal problems during repeated visits to their primary-care physician, according to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center of Baltimore, MD. It’s only after long delays that many children have their IBD identified by an expert gastroenterologist from Johns Hopkins or elsewhere.

Surge of IBDs Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis draws scrutiny of respected Dallas medical institution

The surge of IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, among Americans has grown so severe that a respected medical institution, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has created a new Crohn’s and Colitis Program to help victims of IBDs. The center also is studying the IBD increase to learn what has caused it.

One clear answer could be Accutane, an acne treatment designed to clear up severe acne. Since its introduction in 1982 until its recall in 2009, it’s been used by millions of Americans, and recently has been shown to cause IBDs ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease (also known as Crohns disease) among Accutane users.

Meanwhile, UT Southwestern is doing its best to assist those suffering from frequent bloody diarrhea, weight loss and severe abdominal pain due to suffering an IBD.

Actor James Marshall seeks justice in Accutane defective drug trial over IBD injury

Actor James Marshall, star of Oscar nominee A Few Good Men and cult TV hit Twin Peaks, once had a promising career. Then he took Accutane. Now he’s fighting for his financial life against the Swiss pharmaceutical giant whose negligence injured him and cut his career short.

After taking acne drug Accutane, Marshall was afflicted with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and had to have his colon surgically removed in 1995. As former colleague Martin Sheen testified at Marshall’s Accutane lawsuit, currently in trial, Marshall lost weight, lost his enthusiasm and showed a dramatic physical change after his IBD injury due to Accutane.

Also testifying in Marshall’s behalf have been director Rob Reiner and actor Brian Dennehy.

Casey Abrams of ‘American Idol’ suffers IBD ulcerative colitis

The inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) known as ulcerative colitis can strike anyone, anywhere. And it’s stuck American Idol contestant Casey Abrams.

The 2011 finalist and contender, who’s only 20, was hospitalized and missed Idol’s March 10 results show. It turns out he was being treated at Los Angeles’ prestigious Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where he received two blood transfusions.

It isn’t known how Abrams came to suffer ulcerative colitis. But we do know that many innocent Americans, including many from his age group, suffer the debilitating, incurable, lifelong disease as a result of having taken acne treatment Accutane.

Growing ranks of IBD patients may be due to millions who used Accutane

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is attempting to learn why inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is increasing in America. Indeed, it’s a crisis, with 30,000 persons newly diagnosed each year and over 1 million already enduring a painful and lifelong IBD.

The number of Americans suffering IBD could be even greater, but many are reluctant to discuss the embarrassing condition, which can involve diarrhea, bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps. IBD is not something people tend to discuss with the weather. This contributes to the mystery which seems to shroud IBD and its increase.

At Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com, we can guess what UT Southwestern will find: IBD is mushrooming because, in the years that defective acne drug Accutane was available, more than 5 million Americans took it.

Surgery is a treatment for IBD ulcerative colitis caused by Accutane

Ulcerative colitis, also known as UC, is an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. But beyond that alphabet soup of acronyms lies a untasteworthy stew of harmful side effects for those who suffer UC after taking acne drug Accutane.

It may not seem that an acne medication or acne treatment could cause severe digestive disorders, but that’s proven to be the case with defective drug Accutane. Its potent active ingredient, Isotretinoin, has harmed many Americans and others around the world since Accutane became available as an acne treatment in 1982. In all, more than 13 million people are believed to have taken Accutane.

Among the worst Accutane side effects injuries is UC. It compares to Crohn’s disease, another Accutane IBD injury, as a gastrointestinal ailment. But while Crohn’s (also called Crohns) attacks the entire digestive system, UC bears down on the colon (or large intestine), the rectum and sometimes the last segment of the small intestine, known as the ileum.

Drug money? Roche billions were earned from defective acne drug Accutane, causing IBD, bowel injuries.

A Swiss company has made billions of dollars at the expense of innocent Americans who unknowingly took defective acne drug Accutane without realizing it could cause serious, debilitating, incurable and lifelong digestive disorders.

That company is Roche, also known as Hoffman LaRoche or Roche Pharmaceuticals. Though Roche was aware that its acne treatment could cause harm, Roche peddled the defective acne medication anyway, content to reap billions of dollars in profits even though it knew many victims would wind up filing an Accutane lawsuit.

In short, Roche decided its own vast profits outweighed an individual human being’s right not to be harmed by a defective drug -- and harmed in a painful, distressing and life-changing way via an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease.

Diagnosing bowel disease or IBD can spark an Accutane lawsuit for victims

Persons who suffer a variety of digestive disorders and gastrointestinal travails may wonder: Why me? For them, that will take a diagnosis of their ailment, and even then, they may not know what caused their illness.

But if a person took defective acne drug Accutane -- even years earlier -- it could be that their injury was caused by the defective acne treatment, especially if their injury is a bowel disease.

Accutane is known to cause what’s known as an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. Among the IBDs caused by Accutane and its active ingredient, Isotretinoin, are Crohn’s disease, also known as Crohns disease, and ulcerative colitis. Both are lifelong, incurable and debilitating.

Accutane timeline starts in 1930, continues with Crohn’s and colitis IBD injuries

The Accutane timeline stretches back to 1930, when dermatologists and others began using Vitamin A to combat cases of severe acne. In the years afterward, severe acne also received such treatments as elevated doses of fat soluble Vitamin A and, in some cases, an oral antibiotic. Yet none of these acne treatments proved to be wholly successful, and the scourge of severe acne continued.

The Accutane timeline then jumps to the year 1979. That’s when which Hoffman-LaRoche, a giant pharmaceutical corporation, registered a copyright on the drug Isotretinoin. (The company also is known as Roche Pharmaceuticals.)

Isotretinoin is an extremely potent and high-dosage Vitamin A supplement, so in a way, it’s linked to the acne treatments which were introduced in 1930. But Isotretinoin is far more powerful, and it showed it could fight if not eliminate acne in those suffering cases of severe acne.

Number of Accutane users is in the millions, in the U.S. and worldwide

How many people have taken acne treatment Accutane? Millions -- many millions.

First made available in 1982, acne drug Accutane was sold by pharmaceutical giant Roche Pharmaceuticals for 27 years, or until Roche issued an Accutane recall in 2009. However, generic Accutane remains available from other manufacturers, which began producing such generic Accutane as Amnesteem, Sotret and Claravis in 2002, after Roche’s patent expired.

Not long before that, in the year 2000, Roche had amassed 13 million Accutane users throughout the world. Of those 13 million, a total of at least 5 million lived in the United States.

What is generic Accutane? Another cause of IBD, Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis and Accutane lawsuits

What is generic Accutane? Is it just as potent -- and as potentially dangerous -- as Accutane?

The answer to both questions is an emphatic “yes.” Generic Accutane sold under the names Sotret, Claravis or Amnesteem has the same powerful active ingredient -- Isotretinoin -- as the original Accutane.

Such generic Accutane also can harm just as surely, causing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, and forcing some victims to have surgical colon removal.

Accutane warnings of side effects injuries began even before defective acne drug was sold

Accutane acne drug maker Roche Pharmaceuticals, also known as Hoffman La-Roche, knew even before it sold Accutane that the acne treatment could be harmful. First known were Accutane birth defects injuries. But over the years, the list of injuries and warnings grew enormously, until Roche finally issued an Accutane recall in 2009 -- 27 years too late.

As far back as 1971, Roche had developed Accutane as an acne medication for severe cases of acne, but did not release it due to birth defects risks. Yet by 1982, Accutane hit the market anyway, soon followed by reports of birth defects it had caused.

Ulcerative colitis treatment needed after acne drug Accutane side effects injuries

One of the most damaging Accutane side effects is the inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, known as ulcerative colitis. Another Accutane side effect, Crohn’s disease, attacks the entire digestive system. But ulcerative colitis, or UC, attacks only the colon, rectum and occasionally the last part of the small intestine, known as the ileum.

UC produces an inflammation and ulceration of the inner lining of the large intestine, or colon. It produces severe pain in the abdomen as well as diarrhea, which sometimes is bloody. It also causes ulcers, sores and inflammation of the colon, and it can lead to anemia, rectal bleeding, fatigue, joint pain and weight loss.

The tragic truth for ulcerative colitis sufferers is that there is no cure. There is only treatment, which can only reduce the Accutane side effects symptoms. What are such ulcerative colitis treatments?

Accutane dosage, overdose can cause serious side effects from potent acne drug

Accutane with Isotretinion is a powerful and potent drug. As such, its use must be carefully supervised, and it is sold only to those with a physician’s prescription.

Ordinarily, an Accutane course lasts about 15 to 20 weeks. However, it could last up to half a year. If a second course of Accutane is needed, that may be administered to a patient, but normally not until the patient has taken time away from Accutane first.

Accutane history littered with defective drug’s IBD, Crohn’s, colitis injuries meriting an Accutane lawsuit

Accutane may have been removed from the market in 2009, but Accutane history is far from over.

That history reaches back to 1979, when pharmaceutical manufacturer Hoffman-LaRoche registered the drug Isotretinoin, a powerful Vitamin A supplement. But in a way Accutane’s history goes beyond that, since Vitamin A had been used as an acne treatment dating back to the year 1930.

Prior to Accutane’s development, much severe acne was treated with an oral antibiotic, such as Erythromycin or tetracyclines. These had some success, but also many failures. An alternative was to treat severe acne with elevated doses of fat soluble Vitamin A, but this, too, proved problematic.

Acne cases prompt Accutane use, causing IBD such as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis

Acne in the form of blemishes or pimples has existed throughout human history. But humans haven’t always had effective cures for it.

In 1982 they got one, and it was called Accutane. The potent acne medication featured Isostretinoin, a powerful drug which could fight and often conquer acne.

But that victory exacted a terrible toll. The price people paid for losing acne was gaining a catastrophic injury called an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease. Such an IBD can take the form of Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, both of which are painful, embarrassing and debilitating.

Not only that, but they’re incurable and, thus, lifelong. And the acne drug called Accutane is to blame.

Varied Accutane side effects include IBDs Crohn’s Disease, ulcerative colitis, meriting an Accutane lawsuit

Ever notice how many drug ads on TV spend more time listing their potential harmful side effects than touting a drug’s effectiveness? That’s because drug companies are required by law to issue such warnings. But beyond the warnings lie realities, and for acne drug Accutane, that includes many varied Accutane side effects ranging from discomfort to lifelong and debilitating diseases.

The latter category include such Accutane side effects as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. Both are an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, and both are incurable.

IBDs cause sufferers inflammation, pain, discomfort and sudden, unexpected needs to go to the bathroom. And they won’t go away. They can be treated, but not eliminated. Thus, they are debilitating conditions -- and certainly worthy of exploring an Accutane lawsuit to claim financial compensation.

Acne treatment Accutane also can cause varied side effects beyond these extremes. What are some of them?

IBD research shows Accutane acne drug causes bowel disease, prompting lawsuits

How do we know that Accutane causes inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD? We know because of a number of things, including research.

For instance, researchers working at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have conducted studies which they say have established a definite link between Accutane acne medication and the IBD known as ulcerative colitis, or UC. This disease can cause victims significant inflammation, cramping and pain as it invades the digestive tract, and some victims even must have their colon surgically removed as a result.

The UN-Chapel Hill research results, issued in 2010, showed that patients who’d taken acne drug Accutane were at least four times more likely to become afflicted with UC than those who did not take the defective acne treatment.

Acne not contagious but Accutane cure dangerous

I’s acne contagious? It’s hard to find any source that says so. But people tend to believe it is because its disfiguring pustules and pimples look that way. But the idea that acne is contagious persists anyway. That leaves victims feeling self-conscious and isolated when others avoid them. No wonder people with severe acne were desperate for a cure to stop the scarring and the social stigma it causes.

In 1982, it appeared that cure had arrived. That’s when Accutane’s Swiss manufacturer came out with Accutane, an acne treatment that seemed like the perfect answer to victims’ prayers. Many called the powerful vitamin A derivative a panacea. It brought an end to severe cases of acne, or at least a dramatic reduction in symptoms, when nothing else worked. As Accutane’s popularity grew, people with milder cases began taking it.

But Accutane can permanently damage the colon. The powerful drug has potentially devastating side effects - ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Disease and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Ironically, the very medicine that victims took to stop their acne and improve their social lives ended up making them sicker and even more isolated. The colon diseases that Accutane causes tether victims to the bathroom when flair ups occur. Attacks are exceedingly painful. And symptoms are embarrassing.

The company that makes Accutane took it off the market in 2009. In 2010, a New Jersey jury awarded $25 million to a 38-year old Alabama man who took Accutane in his twenties and eventually had to have his colon removed. The computer programmer needed five surgeries, including the one to remove that section of his intestines. So far, Roche Holding Company, Accutane’s Swiss manufacturer, has paid $56 million to victims in six Accutane lawsuits. Roche lost every one on grounds that the company failed to adequately warn users of the risk of bowel disease.

Easing IBD effects via treatment helps, but acne drug’s bowel disease has no cure

The bitter tragedy of the harm done by acne drug Accutane is that its most severe side effects, such as an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), have no cure. An IBD such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease can be treated, but cannot be defeated. That’s one reason why Accutane lawsuits are prevailing against creator Roche Pharmaceuticals, whose negligence has caused such great harm to so many innocent victims.

Indeed, an Accutane lawsuit may be needed to safeguard Accutane victims from the mounting medical costs associated with their injury, including IBD treatments and even colon removal via surgery.

Yet what can be done to ease IBD effects, such as pain and inflammation, via treatment?

Peer pressure pushes teens to use defective acne drug Accutane, causing bowel disease

Drugs should be taken for the right reasons. Having a severe case of acne for which no other acne treatment helps would seem to be a good reason to use Accutane or generic Accutane such as Sotret, Amnesteem or Claravis.

But the trade-off in potential illnesses, including lifelong, incurable bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, hardly makes it worth it for teens to bow to peer pressure and take a defective drug anyway.

That defective drug, Accutane, has been known to cause an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. These medical ailments are debilitating and devastating, often leading to victims having to have their colon removed. They also suffer severe pain due to their Accutane side effects.

The nature of acne means anyone can become a defective drug Accutane victim

What is acne, who suffers it and what are the consequences?

Acne is a skin infection involving the sebaceous glands -- glands which secrete oily substances to help the skin to keep from drying out. Though that’s necessary, it also leads to acne when oil and dead skin cells combine to block hair follicle pores in the skin.

Additional oil then builds up beneath the pores, resulting in eruptions of skin bacteria. These can lead to the swelling, redness and splotches we call blemishes or pimples -- that is, acne.

Such acne can afflict anyone of any age, though it’s most often associated with teens who are experiencing puberty and its increased hormonal activity. Acne also is most associated with the face, though acne also can erupt on the chest, upper arms and back, among other body parts.

Serious side effects call for an Accutane lawsuit for IBD injury

Defective drug Accutane can cause a variety of harmful side effects, but some are far worse than others. Serious side effects from the failed acne medication include ulcerative colitis or UC, which is an inflammatory bowel disease or IBD. Another is Crohn’s disease, which also is an IBD.

Such illnesses are lifelong, incurable and debilitating. They cannot be eliminated, but only treated. Thus, they cause sustained and costly expenses for medical bills and lost wages.

One way to recover financially from these expenses is to seek an Accutane lawsuit against the defective drug’s negligent manufacturer, Roche Pharmaceuticals. Regardless of where you live in America, you can find an Accutane attorney for such an Accutane lawsuit via Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com.

Generic Amnesteem form of Accutane may merit a personal injury lawsuit for IBD, colon removal

Accutane isn’t the only defective acne drug that can harm Americans. Amnesteem, a generic brand of Accutane, also can be dangerous, as can be Claravis and Sotret, two other forms of generic Accutane. All can cause inflammatory bowel disease or IBD, such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, which can necessitate removing the colon.

In short, you need not have taken Accutane to be eligible for an Accutane lawsuit to recover financial damages for an Accutane injury. You also may have taken a form of generic Accutane such as Amnesteem, Sotret or Claravis.

Those generic brands of the acne medication arose after the patent for Accutane ran out for Accutane’s manufacturer, Roche Pharmaceuticals. This occurred in 2002, 20 years after Roche introduced Accutane to the world, then proceeded to make billions of dollars from its defective drug.

Jury awards favor victims of Accutane IBD side effects in personal injury lawsuits

Are Accutane lawsuits winning? Yes -- emphatically.

So far in just six cases brought to trial in the United States, juries have found in favor of plaintiffs each time. That means Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG, also called Roche Pharmaceuticals or Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., has been the loser.

Indeed, jury awards so far have reached a total of more than $56 million, with that money going to victims of defective acne drug Accutane and its harmful Accutane side effects.

Even so, Roche has raked in more than $1 billion in profits annually by marketing and selling its defective acne medication, which went on the market in 1982. And considering the suffering its defective drug has caused, Roche has barely begun to compensate the many victims of failed drug Accutane.

Yet justice is just beginning for Roche’s negligence in selling its defective acne medication.

Who uses Accutane? Teens, often, but anyone can suffer IBD injury mandating an Accutane lawsuit

Though teen years are the prime time for acne, people of all ages can suffer pimples and blemishes, and 16 million people worldwide have turned to Accutane for a cure. Sadly, that “cure” has proven to be a curse, causing countless Accutane injury incidents to people of all ages and walks of life.

Teens often have been victims, since acne tends to be worst in teen years as adolescents reach puberty. Making the situation even more difficult is the peer pressure which makes teens intensely uncomfortable with skin blemishes, leading them to turn to potent prescription acne medications such as Accutane.

For them, the embarrassment and humiliation of acne are strong motivators for taking a drug to cure it. Many teens already have poor self-image problems, and the ridicule, bullying and scorn due to acne can make them feel far worse.

Detecting an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, is the first step toward an Accutane lawsuit

Any list of serious Accutane side effects would have to include near the top an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. Such Accutane injuries are debilitating, incurable and lifelong, causing victims a great deal of discomfort, pain and embarrassment, not to mention surgeries such as colon removal.

But before visiting a physician for a diagnosis, how do you have an idea of whether or not you may have such an IBD?

In IBD detection, one thing of which to be wary is an extreme case of diarrhea, including bloody diarrhea, as well as pain in the abdomen. Some IBD victims must make more than a dozen visits to the bathroom per day. Diarrhea which is that extreme may lead to low blood pressure, dehydration of the body and an accelerated heartbeat, all of which are unhealthy.

Accutane in pregnancy can cause serious Isotretinoin side effects

Beyond a lifelong and debilitating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), among the many horrific Accutane side effects are birth defects for babies of women who took Accutane during pregnancy. Accutane also can cause depression and even suicidal impulses among the pregnant women themselves.

Due to this, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has supported for five years a mandatory risk management program for Accutane.

Generic Accutane drug Sotret merits an Accutane acne drug injury lawsuit

Not just Accutane can cause severe inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, injuries. The acne drug also is sold in the form of generic Accutane, including the products Sotret, Amnesteem and Claravis. Each of these acne medications also contains Isotretinion, the active ingredient in Accutane which banishes blemishes -- but also invites major medical maladies.

In fact, Sotret derives its name from Isotretinoin, the harmful active ingredient in Accutane.

If you have taken Accutane or generic Accutane in the form of Sotret, Claravis or Amnesteem, or any other form of Isotretinion, and then suffered an IBD, alert the nationwide legal team of Accutane-lawsuit-lawyer.com. It can provide you with an Accutane injury attorney in states across America to fight for your legal right to financial compensation for your injuries caused by a pharmaceutical corporation’s negligence.

Treating an IBD should be followed by an Accutane lawsuit by victims of the defective drug

Why have innocent Americans been harmed with IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, injuries? Because a negligent manufacturer sold defective drug Accutane despite its being the clear cause of IBD injuries such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Thus, an Accutane lawsuit may be needed to press for a victim’s legal right to fair compensation for medical bills, lost wages and pain and suffering.

These defective drug injuries occur because Accutane and generic Accutane feature active ingredient Isotretinoin. Though it can stop acne, it also starts a lifelong battle with debilitating diseases of the bowels and digestive tract. That battle may involve surgery or repeated surgeries to treat, but never fully cure. In fact, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis have no cures.

By winning for Accutane victims, lawsuits can prevent future victims

How have defective drug lawsuits helped the American people? They have helped remove harmful drug Accutane from the market, for one thing.

The acne medication was a big seller in America after receiving Food and Drug Administration approval in 1982, and for 27 years it helped fight acne. But it also produced serious Accutane side effects in the form of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. Among the IBDs caused by Accutane are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, which both are lifelong, incurable and debilitating ailments.

Clearly, such a drug as Accutane should not be sold. Yet the FDA only issued warnings about Accutane, and allowed Roche Pharmaceuticals to continue selling it.

That change, however,thanks to personal injury lawsuits for defective drug injuries.

Isotretinoin defective drug is key to acne medication Accutane injuries, bowel disease

Why is acne treatment Accutane so harmful, causing lifelong, incurable, debilitating bowel diseases? The answer lies in one drug: Isotretinoin.

Accutane and generic Accutane products -- Claravis, Amnesteem and Sotret -- all contain Isotretinoin, a potent if not powerful drug which does, in fact, reduce if not eliminate blemishes, pimples and other acne.

But there’s a trade-off -- in fact, a most serious Accutane side effect. With Isotretinoin’s success comes ghastly failures, in terms of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

And all this is due to Isotretinion, a drug which pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann La Roche developed in the year 1982, and which soon went on the market. In what form? As the active ingredient in the acne medication with the brand name Accutane.

Stars are among Accutane acne drug side effects victims suffering Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis

Since Accutane was unleashed on the American public in 1982, thousands of innocent victims have taken the acne medication and then, as a result, suffered an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.

Yet these incurable digestive disorders also existed previously. In fact, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was afflicted with Crohn’s disease prior to his 1956 re-election campaign. At first he tried to keep that from being widely known, but when he had to have surgery, the news got out. Yet it didn’t keep him from being elected again as president for a second term.

Accutane side effects for bowel disease show Accutane lawsuit need

Those taking acne medication Accutane have endured a variety of damaging side effects for the defective drug. Perhaps the worst is an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, which can be lifelong, debilitating, incurable and, in some cases, fatal.

Actually, only about 1 in 20 of Accutane side effects victims experiences an IBD. But these bowel disease injuries to the gastrointestinal tract are far worse than most other Accutane injury symptoms.

The latter can encompass such injuries and Accutane side effects as dryness of the nose or moderate nosebleeds, which can impact about four-fifths of Accutane victims. Other side effects include irritation of the eyelids or eyes, which can occur with about two-fifths of victims.

Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, has one known cause: Accutane

In recent years, many Americans have found themselves victims of an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. This can mean they suffer Crohn’s disease or perhaps ulcerative colitis. Both are lifelong, debilitating and incurable, leading to frequent doctor visits if not hospitalization for surgery, such as colon removal.

These Americans doubtless wondered how they contracted an IBD, especially when there was no previous medical history of such disease in their family. But for some, sadly, the cause was something they added to their body. It was Accutane, an acne medication which clears up acne but also can cause an IBD.

Generic acne treatment Claravis, like Accutane, causes bowel disease worthy of an Accutane lawsuit

Though Accutane was pulled from the market in 2009 after 27 years of sales to unwary consumers, generic acne medication Accutane remains widely available in the United States. One brand of generic Accutane is Claravis.

Like Accutane, Claravis contains the powerful drug Isotretinoin and is only prescribed when all other treatments have failed to clear up acne. Also like Accutane, Claravis can cause serious harm to the user’s bowels.

Isotretinoin may clear up pimples and blemishes in the process, by lessening the oil which the body’s glands secrete. Yet the acne drug also can lead to a lifelong and debilitating inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, which has no real cure. Indeed, its symptoms can only be treated, not eliminated, and an IBD can only go into remission, but not end.

Accutane side effects sidetracked career of actor James Marshall

Perhaps you know him best as James Hurley, the troubled high school lad who rode a motorcycle, played a guitar and once romanced slain prom queen Laura Palmer in early ‘90s cult TV hit Twin Peaks. Or perhaps you recall him as Pfc. Louden Downey, a downcast Marine accused of murder in the Oscar-nominated 1992 film A Few Good Men.

But it’s doubtful you remember actor James Marshall for many things since then, because his budding career was soon sidelined. That’s because Marshall trusted his physician and a pharmaceutical company and wound up taking the prescribed acne medication Accutane to clear up his blemishes. After all, he worked in a business bent on image at all cost.

Accutane verdicts find for victims of defective acne medication

Many lawsuits are pending against Roche Pharmaceuticals, the drug maker whose negligence has caused serious Accutane side effects injuries. But some Accutane lawsuits already have gone to trial -- and they’ve prevailed in a big way for victims of Accutane injuries such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Already, victims of these inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) have been awarded damages totalling $56 million in six different Accutane lawsuits. As for Roche, it has made so much money from selling Accutane -- as much as $1.2 billion in profits for a single year -- that it can afford to pay such millions.

The biggest jury verdict so far came last February, when a New Jersey Superior Court favored a man whose Accutane use caused an IBD. This injury required removal of his colon removed after five surgeries. But he did receive more than $25 million in compensatory damages.

Ulcerative colitis victims include mother of actor James Van Der Beek of ‘Dawson’s Creek’

Bowel disease knows no boundaries, which is why many Americans suffer from ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease. One of them is the mother of actor James Van Der Beek, former star of TV’s Dawson’s Creek and Mercy.

His mother, a former Broadway dancer, for years suffered UC in silence out of embarrassment for the condition, which can involve frequent and sudden bowel movements. Now her son is the celebrity spokesman for Voices of UC, a campaign to raise awareness of ulcerative colitis.

Van Der Beek says his mother is among half a million Americans suffering from UC, and about a third of them are initially misdiagnosed, leading to delays in treatment that average 18 months.

Famous Accutane victims include actor James Marshall, a defective drug IBD sufferer

Thousands of Americans have fallen victim to defective acne medication Accutane, and they include at least one famous victim: actor James Marshall, star of cult TV series Twin Peaks and the Oscar-nominated film A Few Good Men.

After his serious Accutane injury which led him to have his colon removed, Marshall pressed an Accutane lawsuit against Roche Pharmaceuticals, creator of the defective drug. That lawsuit currently is awaiting trial.

Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, can come from acne drug Accutane

Perhaps you suffer the pain and inflammation of an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease. Do you know why or how you suffered this ailment? If you ever took acne medication or acne treatment Accutane, that could be the reason, because Accutane is known to cause IBD.

In some cases, health specialists may not be able to determine what sparks an IBD, which can include ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. But when Accutane is part of the equation, it is almost certain that the defective drug has led to this lifelong, debilitating and incurable condition.

Accutane’s risks haven’t led Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban it

The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, went on record in 1982 as approving the use by Americans of a new “wonder drug” as an acne medication called Accutane. Soon the acne treatment became wildly popular, with millions of users, or customers. And soon Roche Pharmaceuticals, which produced and sold Accutane, profited by billions of dollars.

But also soon, Americans began suffering at-first baffling digestive disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. An IBD such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, even could necessitate a victim having his or her colon removed. And all because of a pimple treatment.

Accutane recall status doesn’t spare millions of IBD victims; lawsuits needed

Americans across the nation are learning that acne treatment Accutane, though a cure for acne, also has serious side effects such as the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. So you’d think Accutane no longer would be sold as an acne treatment.

But if you did, you’d be wrong.

Accutane is still sold to millions of users in Canada and in many other countries, but not America. And even though its creator, Roche Pharmaceuticals, yanked the defective drug from the American market in 2009, it remains available here as generic Accutane products known as Amnesteem, Claravis and Sotret.

IBD symptoms may reveal Accutane injury meriting an Accutane lawsuit

You’ve lost weight. You’re having cramps and pain in your stomach. You suffer from diarhhea which is sometimes bloody. You’re vomiting. And you seem to have an ulcer.

All are symptoms of an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. And all may be due to an Accutane side effects injury.

Defective drug Accutane lawsuits are prevailing in courts

As an Accutane victim, what chance do you have of recovering your financial losses for medical bills, lost wages and pain and suffering? It turns out you have a solid chance, in that Accutane lawsuits already are prevailing for victims in America’s courts.

So far more than 5,000 such Accutane lawsuits have been filed, and several have been tried. In those, juries have found in favor of victims once it became clear that Roche Pharmaceuticals, the acne drug’s Swiss-based manufacturer, was aware of its acne medication’s dangers yet failed to warn prospective users sufficiently.

Though negligent, Roche Pharmaceuticals has reaped riches via acne medication Accutane

Roche Pharmaceuticals has earned billions of dollars in profits via its defective acne medication called Accutane. In fact, Roche has known of such defects, yet continued selling the drug, which was introduced in 1982. As a result, many Americans have endured Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or other bowel diseases, and some have had to have their colon removed.

Such Accutane injuries merit an Accutane lawsuit from an Accutane lawyer or Accutane attorney with Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com. Just submit the free case review form on this Web page, or call toll-free to 1-800-339-0606, and a legal representative will respond promptly to help you assess your Accutane case.

Defective drug lawyers for Accutane acne treatment injury invite you to 'Contact us'

Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com can provide an Accutane lawsuit lawyer or attorney for Accutane victims throughout America. Regardless of where you live, if you have suffered an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, as a result of taking acne treatment Accutane, alert a defective drug lawyer or attorney with Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com. It offers a free case review for Accutane side effects injury cases.

In order to get additional information on a possible Accutane lawsuit, victims of the defective acne medication are invited to contact a defective drugs attorney or lawyer by using this Web site's free case evaluation form, found on this page, or by calling toll-free to 1-800-339-0606. Those suffering Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis or a related bowel disease after taking acne medication Accutane are urged to do so.

Causes of IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, lead to Accutane, generic Accutane

Many medical researchers say they do not know what causes an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. But it’s become clear in recent years that, independently of natural causes, the IBDs could be caused by using acne treatment Accutane.

Crohn’s disease -- an abnormal inflammation of the digestive tract -- is believed to be caused by an unknown triggering event in susceptible people. Such an “event” could be taking the oral prescription drug Accutane.

Celebs get Crohn’s disease, and you can too via Accutane, meriting a defective drug lawsuit

Many Americans have suffered Crohn’s disease, a debilitating disorder of the bowels. These days that’s often due to harmful defective drug Accutane, whose side effects include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, both of which are an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD.

But Crohn’s disease has occurred before Accutane’s 1982 origins, including when then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered it just before running for re-election in 1956. Eisenhower tried to keep it a secret at first but later needed surgery, and his condition became public. And he was re-elected.

Claravis generic Accutane acne treatment may mean a Claravis lawsuit

Similarly to Accutane, the generic Accutane product known as Claravis is prescribed by physicians only as a last resort to treat cases of severe blemishes, pimples or zits, also known as acne. When virtually all other acne treatment has failed, Claravis may be tried.

Whether the acne medication is Accutane or the generic Accutane known as Claravis, such drugs include Isotretinoin, which reduces the amount of oil secreted by the body’s glands and thus decreases oily acne. But in the process these acne treatment and acne medication drugs, which are also known as retinoids, may cause serious harm as well, such as Claravis side effects.

Amnesteem, a generic Accutane acne treatment, causes IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease

Among generic Accutane products introduced since Accutane creator Roche Pharmaceuticals lost its 20-year patent on the drug in 2002 is acne treatment Amnesteem. Like Accutane, Amnesteem has the drug Isotretinoin, which boosts the body’s Vitamin A and helps skin to renew itself, thus serving as an acne medication. But Isotretinoin tablets also cause IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease, such as Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease.

Those who are thus injured can recover financial damages via an Accutane lawsuit, which can include those who took generic Accutane such as Amnesteem, Sotret or Claravis. Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com can provide an experienced defective drugs lawyer or attorney for such victims in states across America. Simply submit the free case evaluation form on this Web page or call toll-free to 1-800-339-0606.

Long term Accutane side effects may merit an Accutane lawsuit

Persons who took defective acne treatment Accutane may face a variety of Accutane side effects injuries, some lasting longer than others. Some long term Accutane side effects stem from Crohn’s disease, whose swelling and inflammation of the intestines can cause intestinal blockage.

Such blockage is the result of Crohn’s disease causing scar tissue and swelling that can thicken the walls of the intestines, thus making the intestinal passage more narrow.This even can reach a point that the intestines become blocked.

What is IBD? IBD, IBS are among harmful acne treatment side effects of defective drug Accutane

Among the most damaging of many Accutane side effects are digestive disorders or gastrointestinal maladies known by their acronyms. These are IBD and IBS, and the worst is IBD, which can necessitate an Accutane lawsuit.

What is IBD? The term indicates an inflammatory bowel disease. Such disorders may strike persons with no previous record of gastrointestinal disorders. But the simple fact that they took Accutane or generic Accutane as an acne treatment may mean that the user of these acne treatments is inflicted with IBD.

Acne treatment drug Accutane is dangerous route to good looks

Ever had a bomb blow up in your face? Figuratively speaking, that’s what happened to some people who took Accutane to get rid of the scourge of acne, a distinct disadvantage on the job market and elsewhere.

A 38-year-old Alabama man had to have his colon removed after he took Accutane in his 20s to get rid of acne. In the spring of 2010, a jury in New Jersey awarded him $25 million, ruling that Accutane’s manufacturer didn’t post adequate warnings about the drug’s dreaded side effects: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease.

Hoffman-La Roche took Accutane off the market in 2009. The company is now defending itself against many Accutane lawsuits brought by victims who developed these bowel diseases after taking the prescription drug.

Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD detection is vital, as may be an Accutane lawsuit

Defective acne treatment Accutane can cause a variety of harmful Accutane side effects and Accutane symptoms, and among the worst are those that signal an Accutane personal injury victim has suffered an IBD or inflammatory bowel disease. These may merit an Accutane lawsuit.

An IBD such as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis can produce lifelong and debilitating health problems. How do you know if you have an IBD? Your IBD detection can begin by noting if you are experiencing diarrhea or abdominal pains.

IBD treatment for inflammatory bowel disease leaves costs and needs for an Accutane lawsuit

Innocent victims of defective drug Accutane and generic Accutane, all containing Isotretinoin, often suffer an IBD or inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis. Such personal injuries due to Accutane side effects may require multiple surgeries and may be lifelong and debilitating.

But though IBD treatment does exist, an Accutane lawsuit may be required to gain financial recovery for IBD treatment costs caused by the defective acne treatment or acne medication.

Accutane recall? Sort of -- but IBD injuries of defective acne treatment remain

Given the fact that Accutane is a dangerous and defective drug proven to cause debilitating personal injury such as IBD or inflammatory bowel disease, has the acne treatment or acne medication been recalled? In a sense, no, and in a sense, yes -- though not by the Food and Drug Administration.

Instead, Accutane was removed from the market in 2009 by original manufacturer Roche Pharmaceuticals. Roche did not cite 5,000 pending lawsuits against the defective drug as its reason for doing so, nor did Roche cite growing public concern if not outcry against the defective drug, which even could lead to greater consumer protections via federal legislation, as has been urged by Accutane critics.

Sotret generic Accutane acne treatment can spark inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD

The generic Accutane product known as Sotret takes its name from the active acne treatment ingredient in both Accutane and generic Accutane: Isotretinoin. That drug boosts the body’s Vitamin A and helps skin to renew itself in the fight against pimples, zits or blemishes, otherwise known as acne. Isotretinoin also helps lessen oils secreted by the body’s glands. Yet this acne medication also can spark severe Sotret side effects, including inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. And that may be a basis for a Sotret lawsuit or generic Accutane lawsuit via Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com.

Like Accutane, the generic Accutane known as Sotret only should be used by acne sufferers when virtually all other acne treatment and acne medication has been tried -- in short, as a last resort. Sotret became available in 2002, soon after Roche Pharmaceuticals, which created Accutane, lost its exclusive patent for the drug.

Filing an Accutane lawsuit may mean gaining financial recovery for your defective drug losses

To date, at least 5,000 personal injury lawsuits have been filed against Roche Pharmaceutical, original manufacturer of the defective drug Accutane, featuring Isotretinoin. Many victims behind such Accutane lawsuits assert that Roche did not adequately alert potential Accutane users of the serious health risks that it could bring.

It is believed that Roche knew of such damaging Accutane side effects, such as inflammatory bowel disease or IBD, yet continued selling the defective drug anyay, in the process making billions of dollars in profits.

Lawsuits, FDA warning haven’t yet kept generic Accutane from harming innocents

Acne treatment Accutane was popular and widely sold in the United States for more than 20 years. It had entered the market soon after it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on May 7, 1982. But on June 29, 2009, Accutane creator Roche Pharmaceuticals pulled the product from the market.

Why? Because of competition and because of Accutane lawsuits. Here’s how the situation evolved:

FDA-backed iPLEDGE program fights Accutane, Isotretinoin side effects

The side effects threats of acne treatment Accutane and its active ingredient, Isotretinoin, led the Food and Drug Administration in 2005 to approve a mandatory risk management program for the drugs called iPLEDGE.

The iPLEDGE program is designed to reduce if not eliminate exposure to the drug Isotretinoin by pregnant women. Such exposure can lead to depression and suicidal impulses as well as to birth defects in newborns. It also can cause an inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, such as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, though the iPLEDGE program is not designed to combat those.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enabled Accutane sales despite dire health warnings

When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved Accutane for use in 1982, it also noted that the acne treatment -- taken orally and by physician's prescription -- should have a "category X" warning. This warning held that, for pregnant women considering the use of Accutane, its risks to the unborn baby greatly outweighed any possible benefit from using the drug during pregnancy.

Even so, after only nine months of consideration, the FDA approved Accutane's use as an acne treatment in May of 1982. And today, many who have taken the defective drug now need an Accutane lawsuit.

Accutane acne treatment victims have legal options via an Accutane lawsuit

Choosing to engage a defective drugs attorney or lawyer to pursue an Accutane lawsuit is a serious and important decision which Accutane victims should consider with care. In states across America, Accutane sufferers who need legal assistance can find a knowledgeable and experienced defective drugs lawyer or attorney via Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com.

While Americans suffer, Roche Pharmaceuticals makes billions from defective drug Accutane

Swiss-based Roche Pharmaceuticals has long known that its acne medication Accutane was a defective drug, but Roche was prepared to pay lawsuit damages in the millions for a drug whose sales were earning it billions. If that meant victims had to suffer serious bowel diseases and perhaps have their colon removed, Roche could live with that. After all, it was getting rich.

Actor James Marshall of ‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘A Few Good Men’ is an Accutane casualty

james marshall Defective drug Accutane has had many victims since it entered the market in 1982 as a supposedly “miracle” cure for acne. Some users have suffered Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis or other forms of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. Some even have had to have their colon removed due to such severe Accutane side effects injuries.

One such person was James Marshall, an actor who first became well known in America via the twisted yet highly regarded 1990-91 ABC TV series Twin Peaks, created by executive producers David Lynch and Mark Frost. Now Marshall is involved in an Accutane lawsuit.

Accutane users include many American teens, but they aren't only victims of defective acne treatment

Just who are the users of defective drug acne treatment Accutane? Since the acne medication was introduced in 1982, an estimated 16 million people worldwide have used Accutane. These Accutane users span both sexes and a variety of ages, although many have been teenagers, since acne symptoms and acne side effects tend to be more prevalent in adolescents as they enter puberty.

Accutane symptoms may reveal a bowel disease meriting an Accutane lawsuit

Persons who have used Accutane since the acne treatment became available in 1982 may have suffered a variety of harmful side effects as a result. These can be revealed by Accutane symptoms. Only about 5 per cent of such symptoms involve the intestinal tract or bowel disease, but those Accutane injuries can be the worst, by virtue of being painful, lifelong and perhaps even fatal.

What is Isotretinoin?

Persons suffering a bowel disease or other health problem as a result of taking Accutane or generic Accutane have at least one thing in common: They've taken a defective drug with an active ingredient called Isotretinoin. But though they may know what Accutane does and what it signifies -- it's designed as an acne treatment -- they may not know much about Isotretinoin.

Also known as a retinoic acid derivative, Isotretinoin was developed in 1982 by Hoffmann La Roche, a major pharmaceutical corporation. Dr. Gary Peck discovered that Isotretinoin could be used to treat acne, and also could be used for chemotherapy purposes. Dr. Peck even received awards and commendations for his discoveries.A retinoic acid is a fat-soluble vitamin A. It has been used to provide high doses of vitamin A in order to fight acne as far back as the 1930s. But with Isotretinoin, that use became even more potent.

When Isotretinoin became an active ingredient in the acne treatment Accutane as it went on the market in 1982, acne sufferers suddenly had a strong and effective means to fight acne, by orally taking the medication for four to five months. The drug was immediately popular and a big seller, generating up to $1.2 billion in profits per year for Roche.

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