Submitted by Courthouse News on Jan 10, 2012
"LOS ANGELES -- A man who took the male pattern baldness drug Propecia for four years claims it gave him "severe sexual dysfunction and cognitive impairment."
Jason McCord sued Merck & Co. in Federal Court.
Merck has been sued at least 15 times in the past two years for similar claims, according to the Courthouse News database.
McCord says...
Date: 20 Jan 2012 1 Comment Propecia-Help Blog Posted by: admin-propecia
Posted by Shezad Malik MD JD
"Merck & Co. has agreed that all Propecia lawsuits filed in federal district courts throughout the United States by men who experienced sexual problems after using their hair-loss drug should be consolidated before one judge for pretrial proceedings.
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Merck has suggested that the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation should...
By Simon Mundie
Newsbeat reporter
"Young men could be risking their sexual health by taking a commonly used anti-baldness drug, claim some doctors.
They say finasteride, sold in the UK as Propecia, can cause serious side effects and isn't adequately labelled.
A quarter of men in their 20s show signs of male pattern baldness, with six and a half million males in the UK affected.
Propecia...