There is tremendous pressure on both the labs that test these drugs, as well as on the FDA to approve medications quickly. For pharmaceutical companies, the window for a drug to remain profitable is relatively short. This means they will often aggressively push a product to market regardless if it is thoroughly tested or not.
A medication can be hazardous due to a lack of testing that results in only a small cross-section of the population trying the drug before approval. In some cases, demographics that were never tested could react far differently to medication than those in the trial. For example, elderly patients often react strongly to some drugs that younger patients tolerate easily. Our team of Columbus attorneys can investigate if a pharmaceutical company was aware of the dangers of their medication when they pushed it to market.