Orange suit alleges Digitek contained double dose of active ingredient
-Southeast Texas Record
03/30/2010 - An Orange man is suing Mylan Pharmaceutical alleging the prescription drug Digitek has exacerbated his pre-existing heart condition. In his suit, filed March 15 in Orange County District Court, Walter Johnson asserts his Digitek prescription contained a double dose of the active ingredient. More>>>

Judges to evaluate Digitek case experts
-TheWestVirginiaRecord
12/23/2009 - Judges from four states will gather in Charleston to help U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin evaluate experts in litigation over heart medicine Digitek. More>>>

Heart Palpitations, Slow Heart Rate, Low Blood Pressure: Symptoms or Side Effects?
-US Recall News
09/17/2009 - Heart palpitations, slow heart rate, and low blood pressure are often symptoms of diseases or conditions like hormonal changes or Sleep apnea, but could also be side effects associated with certain medications. Below is a list of diseases and conditions associated with symptoms like heart palpitations, slow heart rate, and low blood pressure, as well as a list of medications related to similar side effects. More>>>

39 Digitek plaintiffs must answer questions
-The West Virginia Record
09/03/2009 - Thirty-nine individuals suing drug companies Actavis Totowa and Mylan Bertek over Digitek heart medicine must answer questions loaded with trouble for their lawyers. On Aug. 26, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Stanley ordered the 39 to admit or deny that their lawyers possessed no medical or pharmacy records when they filed complaints. More>>>

Digitek MDL judges deny request to transfer cases to Texas judge
- West Virginia Record
08/20/2009 - AUSTIN, Texas -- Manufacturers and distributors of heart medicine Digitek succeeded in consolidating 19 personal injury suits from 12 counties, but were taught a lesson in judge shopping. On Aug. 5, multi district judges in Austin transferred suits against drug maker Actavis Totowa and distributor Mylan Pharmaceuticals to a pretrial judge, but denied a motion to put Jefferson County District Judge Milton Shuffield in charge of the cases. More>>>

Drug companies will get chance to prove bogus claims
-TheWestVirginiaRecord
08/15/2009 - CHARLESTON - U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Stanley will give drug companies Actavis Totowa and Mylan Pharmaceuticals a chance to prove that lawyers filed bogus suits in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek. More>>>

More Jefferson County suits filed over Digitek dosage
-The South East Texas Record
07/23/2009 - Actavis, UDL Laboratories and Mylan Pharmaceuticals are being sued by at least three different plaintiffs who claim they or their deceased relative took a prescription drug for heart problems that contained twice the approved level of its active ingredient. More>>>

AS Medications Solution LLC. Announces a Nationwide Recall of All Lots of Digoxin Tablets 0.25mg Due to Size Variability
-FDA
06/02/2009 - A S Medication Solutions, LLC, a drug repackage company, announced today that all tablets of Caraco brand Digoxin, USP, 0.25 mg, distributed prior to March 31, 2009, which are not expired and are within the expiration date of August, 2011, are being voluntarily recalled to the consumer level. More>>>

97 plaintiffs take aim at Digitek in St. Clair County
-MadisonCountyRecord
04/28/2009 - Actavis and Mylan Pharmaceuticals are being sued by 97 people in St. Clair County Circuit Court who claim they took a prescription drug for their heart problems that contained twice the approved level of its active ingredient. More>>>

Caraco Recalls Generic Pills Over Irregular Sizes
-Bloomberg
04/01/2009 - Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. recalled generic heart tablets that may contain the wrong amount of medicine, sending the drugmaker down the most in four months in New York trading. More>>>

Digitek suit claims too much medication in pills
-SoutheastTexasRecord
03/19/2009 - Another Jefferson County citizen has filed suit against Mylan Pharmaceuticals, claiming he suffered physical pain after he took the prescription drug Digitek, which allegedly contained twice the approved level of its active ingredient. More>>>

Digitek plaintiffs face thorough fact sheets
-TheWestVirginaRecord
03/06/2009 - CHARLESTON - Individuals who sued manufacturers of heart medicine Digitek will feel more like patients than plaintiffs when they fill out fact sheets for a federal judge. More>>>

Three local suits filed against Mylar over Digitek
-Southeast Texas Record
02/12/2009- Three Jefferson County residents have filed separate suits against Mylan Pharmaceuticals, alleging they suffered physical pain after they took the prescription drug Digitek, which they claim contained twice the approved level of its active ingredient. More>>>

Digitek Recall Lawsuits to be Coordinated Between Federal and State Court
-AboutLawsuits
02/10/2009- The Digitek recall lawsuits which are currently consolidated in an MDL before Judge Joseph Goodwin in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia will be coordinated with state court lawsuits pending in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. More>>>

Actavis Agrees to Keep Digitek Manufacturing Plant Closed
-AboutLawsuits
01/05/2009- Actavis, Inc. and the FDA agreed last week on a Consent Decree of Permanent Injunction, preventing the drug maker from distributing any products from their Actavis Totowa facility in New Jersey. This follows a series of manufacturing problems at the plant, including quality control problems which allowed oversized tablets of Digitek to be commercially released, resulting in hundreds of deaths and serious injuries. More>>>

Digitek Problems Linked to 667 Deaths
-AboutLawsuits
12/30/2008- Following Actavis Totowa’s Digitek recall in April 2008, the FDA received a spike in adverse event reports involving the generic digoxin heart drug and it has been identified as the “primary suspect” in at least 667 deaths reported to the agency from April 1 through June 30, 2008. More>>>

Digitek Deaths May Have Topped 600
-NewsInferno
12/24/2008- A new report says that Digitek tablets have been named a suspect in more than 600 deaths. Digitek tablets were recalled in April by Actavis Totowa because of a manufacturing defect. Actavis said at the time that some Digitek tablets might have been oversized, and could expose patients to a dangerously high level of the drug’s active ingredient. More>>>

Electronic filing, service begins in Mass Litigation Cases
-WestVirginiaRecord
12/12/2008- CHARLESTON -- For the first time in West Virginia history, a Circuit Court Judge sitting in one county has taken action on a case pending in another county using electronic filing and service through LexisNexis File & Serve. More>>>

Digitek Double Dose led to A-fib
-LawyersandSettlements
10/07/2008- - Lenoir, NC: Fran has been taking Digitek to control heart palpitations since 1980. She says they were manageable but right after the Digitek recall Fran didn't "feel right" and she was diagnosed with Atrial fibrillation. Fran believes she took the double dose Digitek heart drug. More>>>

Digitek caused friend's Blindness
-LawyersandSettlements
09/29/2008- Albany, NY: At first, Jack thought he was suffering from pneumonia but he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and started taking Digitek in hospital. Luckily for Jack, his cardiologist took him off the medication months before the Digitek recall but his friend suffered loss of vision in one eye—permanently. More>>>

Digitek: "This Pill is Too Thick"
-LawyersandSettlements
09/25/2008- Tucson, AZ: Sue took Digitek for about 10 years to control her irregular heart beat and palpitations and she was doing OK until last fall, when Sue believes she was given pills that were on the Digitek recall." I got my prescription by mail from Medco and right away, I felt that the pills were too thick," says Sue. More>>>

Double Dose Digitek Caused A-Fib
-LawyersandSettlements
09/14/2008- New York, NY:In 1990, attorney and former marathon runner Michael Rikon developed a heart problem and he started taking Digitek. He had a cardiac arrest in 1998 and had a defibrillator implanted; it didn't fire for nine years until this January and Rikon believes it happened because he took the double-dose Digitek. More>>>

"Digitek is Killing Me," said Mother
-LawyersandSettlements.com
09/08/2008- "It blows my mind that the FDA knew about Actavis Totowa, the maker of Digitek and its quality control problems back in 2006," says Carol M. "Why wasn't it shut down two years ago? More>>>

Son Blames Digitek on Dad's Deteriorating Health
-LawyersandSettlements
09/06/2008- Mike's Dad turned 87 this month and was in pretty good shape until last November; Mike says his health deteriorated rapidly and he can't help but wonder if Digitek is to blame. More>>>

FDA Inspection Prompts Recall of 55 Products
-FDA News
09/05/2008- Actavis Totowa, a U.S. subsidiary of Icelandic generic drug firm Actavis, recalled all drug products manufactured at its plant in Little Falls, N.J., after an FDA inspection revealed the products were not made according to GMP standards. More>>>

Double Strength Federal Digitek Suits Consolidated to West Virginia
-Huntingtonnews.net
08/29/2008- The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that all federal lawsuits related to defective, double strength Digitek (commonly known as Digitalis or Digoxin ) be moved to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. More>>>

Digitek: “You Don’t Mess with Heart Meds”
-LawyersandSettlements
08/25/2008- Olympia, WA: Carl’s wife passed away in January 2008—almost one year after having taken a daily dose of Digitek. Carl is certain she died needlessly from digitalis toxicity: currently, nobody knows for how long Digitek pills were made at twice the strength; nobody knows how many defective pills were consumed by heart patients before the Digitek recall. More>>>

How Long Has Digitek Double Dose been Going On?
-LawyersandSettlements
08/22/2008- On August 1, 2008 drug manufacturer Actavis Totowa LLC finally did the right thing and announced a voluntary recall of all drug products manufactured at its Little Falls, New Jersey facility. But countless people, Digitek patients and their loved ones in particular--are wondering why both the Digitek recall and now this complete recall took so long. More>>>

"Digitek Maker Ruined People's Lives"
-LawyersandSettlements
08/13/2008- Winnifred was prescribed Digitek in December 2003 for congestive heart failure and A-fib. She was doing fine, no problems with her health until early 2007. More>>>

Digitek Maker should worry about Consumer, not Shareholders
-LawyersandSettlements
08/09/2008- Willits, CA: Linda's partner passed away in April 2008, just a few days before receiving notice of the Digitek recall. "Jackie went downhill about two weeks before she passed away and from the digitalis toxicity symptoms I was told about, she had them all," says Linda. More>>>

"Digitek Almost Did Him In"
-LawyersandSettlements
08/06/2008- Port Smith, AR: Although Brenda's Dad just turned 91, he was "extremely vital" until he took almost a whole bottle of double-dose Digitek. More>>>

Dangerous Drugs: Digitek and Reglan
-InjuryBoard.com
08/05/2008- The IB News today reported on the recall and subsequent litigation surrounding Digoxin (Digitek).   As reported, Digitek "double dose" tablets were distributed to patients nationwide.   Manufacturers ignored FDA warning letters and FDA "Revised" warning letters. More>>>

Digitek (Digoxin) -- Treatment for Congestive Heart Failure and Abnormal Heart Rhythms Voluntarily Recalled
-InjuryBoard
7/25/2008 - Actavis Totowa LLC voluntarily recalled the Digitek tablets because tablets manufactured at the New Jersey Actavis facility may have been released in the United States with double the thickness of the normal sized tablets. More>>>

Digitek: "I wasn't planning on Falling Apart so Soon"
-Lawyers and Settlements
07/24/2008- Vickie's doctor put her on Digitek about two years ago for congestive heart failure but a few months back her feet started to swell and then the hallucinations started. "One night I thought my landlord came over to check on me but I talked to him the next day and he wasn't even there—the hallucinations were getting me scared," says Vickie. More>>>

Digitek: Alternative Heart Drug Prescribed…Just in Time?
-Lawyers and Settlements
07/24/2008- Albert had been taking Digoxin for some time but in June his pharmacist changed the prescription to Digitek. "After about a month on Digitek, I had a hard time breathing, got bad headaches, was nauseated and also had blurred vision," says Albert. His symptoms are the classic signs of digitalis toxicity--Albert became ill around the time of the Digitek recall. More>>>

East Texas Woman Suing Drug Maker After Nearly Dying
-ABC News

07/17/2008- KLTV 7's Danielle Capper met with Linda Brinkley of Mineola, who says Digitek cost her more than she ever imagined. More>>>

Double Potency of Digoxin Tablets Result in Injury
-InjuryBoard

07/14/2008- Digoxin tablets, sold under the name Digitek, are used to treat heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms in patients. Recently some of the tablets were found to contain twice the amount of active ingredient. More>>>

Patients Sue Maker Of Recalled Heart Drug
-CBS News

07/14/2008-The maker of the recalled heart drug Digitek faces at least nine federal lawsuits in New Jersey, including one that alleges the drug was dangerous and defective that was filed by the estate of a Texas woman who died. More>>>

Digitek's Double Dose Debacle
-Lawyers and Settlements
07/08/2008- Frances took Digitek for several years to help control her heart condition—congestive heart failure. She was feeling OK until a few months ago. More>>>

Lawsuits Filed Over Recalled Heart Medication Digitek
-InjuryBoard
06/19/2008- Three drug companies involved with the manufacturing and distribution of the recalled heart drug, Digitek, will soon face lawsuits stemming from alleged injuries associated with the medication. More>>>

Lawsuit Raises Questions About Activis Totowa, LLC and Digitek
-InjuryBoard
06/19/2008- Questions have been raised in a class action suit about Actavis Totowa, LLC and their product, Digitek. The tablets were recalled after they went on the market with twice the active ingredient that they should have contained. More>>>

Doctor Suspected Digitek Toxicity
-Lawyers and Settlements
06/18/2008- Kathy's mother had taken Digitek for years and was in fairly good shape. But this past April she went downhill, fast. Kathy thought it was just her age, but from her symptoms, the doctor in ER knew right away that Marilyn was suffering from Digitalis toxicity. More>>>

Drug companies face suits in WV over heart drug Digitek

-WV Times
06/13/2008- West Virginia law firms are suing three drug companies over a heart drug recalled in April after reports of injury and illness from high doses. More>>>

Did Digitek Cause Wife's Death?

-Lawyers and Settlements

06/12/2008- "My wife passed away on May 14th and she took Digitek for two months," says Robert R. "I still have one of the bottles that corresponds with the recalled Digitek double dose lot numbers. She had every one of the symptoms: dizziness, nausea, low blood pressure--and eventually she died." More>>>

Digitek: Little Room for Error
-Lawyers and Settlements

Overdosing on Digitek
-Lawyers and Settlements

Digitek Recall: How Long Were Patients Overdosed?
-Lawyers and Settlements
06/03/2008-  Joanne C. wants to determine how long she had been taken double doses of Digitek before it was recalled. Neither her pharmacist nor doctor has the answer. More>>>

Actavis Totowa Recalls Digitek (digoxin) tablets
-InjuryBoard
06/03/2008- On April 25, 2008 Actavis Totowa LLC, a manufacturer of generic medication, issued a Class I nationwide recall of Digitek, a generic form of digoxin tablets.  More>>>

If you are currently taking Digitek (digoxin) and have concerns about its safety, you should consult with your doctor regarding your treatment options. Under no circumstances should you discontinue taking any medication, including Digitek (digoxin) , without first consulting with your doctor. If you or a loved one have suffered due to DIgitek (digoxin) side effects contact the Digitek Attorneys of Ennis & Ennis, P.A. by filling out our free Digitek case evaluation form or by calling the toll-free number listed below.