Abbott Laboratories (ABT) was sued by a New York Web designer who claimed its top-selling drug Humira, which she took for Crohn’s disease, permanently damaged her optic nerves.
The doctor who treated Jamie Bixby at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in Brooklyn in 2008 said Bixby’s optic neuritis was “related to her use of Humira,’’ according to the lawsuit, which was filed May 20 in Chicago federal court, near the drugmaker’s headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois.
