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Is Zocor an unsafe drug?
Do you have an 80 mg Zocor lawsuit?

Another day, another unsafe drug pushes its way to the front of the line to hold the title of unsafe drug.

It is the responsibility of drug manufacturers, doctors, and pharmacists to ensure that the drugs they make and prescribe to the American public do not cause harm. People take pharmaceutical drugs to stabilize and improve their health. Unfortunately, some drugs have dangerous side effects while other drugs have the potential to cause long-term damage, even death.

Zocor (generic simvastatin) is a statin drug taken to lower cholesterol. Statins have always been somewhat controversial but doctors keep prescribing them because pharmaceutical companies have amassed billions of dollars from statin prescription drugs. The American public wants a quick fix to wellness so popping a statin is preferable to improving a lifestyle. The pill-taking public’s need for immediate gratification is what big pharma can depend on.

Why is Zocor unsafe? Zocor comes in many doses but the dose that has raised the ire of the Food & Drug Administration recently is Zocor 80 mg dose. At this dose, more people suffered serious muscle injury and rhabdomyolysis. Statins are known to cause muscle weakness, a common but serious side effect. Rhabdomyolysis (also known as rhabdo) is more serious and life threatening because life threatening muscle damage causes kidney damage and kidney failure.
People take Zocor and simvastatin to lower cholesterol, not to develop kidney damage and need a dialysis. 

The personal injury law firm of Anapol Schwartz has developed a national reputation for handling unsafe drug liability claims like Baycol, Vioxx, and diet drugs. Anapol Schwartz lawyers in three states – Pa., NJ, and WV have fought to protect the rights of citizens from unsafe drugs through individual actions in state courts.

Do you have an 80 mg Zocor unsafe drug lawsuit?