Studies have linked Accutane use with forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Roche is the manufacturer of Accutane, and internal company documents dating back to 1994 reveal that numerous\u00a0of reports of IBD were made to the company. Between 1997 and 2002, the Food and Drug Administration also received a significant number of adverse event reports. Affected patients are pursuing claims with the help of class action attorneys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lawyers are pursuing litigation against Roche on behalf of Accutane users due to the association that exists between Accutane and ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease, both of which are forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A significant number of cases were reported to Roche and published in internal company documents in 1994. Furthermore, the FDA received its own reports of IBD associated with Accutane use between 1997 and 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drugs-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}