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Vaginal Mesh Implant Sold by J&J Without FDA Approval
If you have been following the mass problems at J&J over the past two years, when it all started with the phantom recall (click here for backstory) and the mess of manufacturing problems that...
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Unless it happens to You or Your Loved One - The Debate On The Right to Jury...
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Qui Tam Lawsuit Nets Whistleblower $21M
Modern Healthcare (4/4, Kutscher, Subscription Publication) reports, "WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., has settled four whistle-blower lawsuits alleging that it violated the federal False Claims...
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Study: Current Use of Fluoroquinolones And Increased Risk of Retinal Detachment
Yesterday, April 4, 2012, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study entitled, "Oral Fluoroquinolones and the Risk of Retinal Detachment". There the authors evaluated any...
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Bayer Settles Some Yaz Lawsuits
According to Bloomberg News, Bayer has begun settling some of the many Yaz lawsuits and claims against them for the increased risk of blood clots. Yaz and Yasmin are contraceptives alleged to have an...
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Jury Whacks Pfizer for $4M in Prempro Drug Case
Great verdict in Connecticut for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer as a result of taking the hormone-replacement drug Prempro. See here to read more.Pfizer was further hit for...
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'Bout Time - Merck's Propecia To Carry Permanent Sexual Dysfunction Warning
For those who have followed the press and science on Merck's hair-loss drug, Propecia, and the risk for permanent sexual dysfunction, you will be glad to know that the US Food and Drug Administration...
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Mississippi Judge Gives Pain and Suffering Damages Cap the Boot
A state judge in Coahoma County declared a legislative imposed cap on non-economic damages of $1 million unconstitutional this week.Non-economic damages generally refer to pain and suffering.The case...
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Severe Side Effect Seen With ACE Inhibitors (Blood Pressure Meds)
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that incidents of a rare but medically known condition known as angioedema has been linked to the use of ACE inhibitors.ACE inhibitors are high blood pressure and...
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FDA Warns that Cancer Drug Revlimid Increases Risk of Secondary Cancers
The US Food and Drug Administration warned that the cancer drug, Revlimid, often prescribed for melanoma, increases the risk of certain secondary cancers in some patients.The FDA will require the drug...
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Forty-One Attorney Generals Tell Congress To Overturn Supreme Court's...
For those who don't recall Pliva v. Mensing, this was a recent Supreme Court decision that held generic drug manufacturers did not have the responsibility to warn of known risks of the drugs they sold...
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Study: Risk of Cardiovascular Death with Azithromycin
A study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that found an increased risk of death in patients who took azithromycin.Azithromycin is an antibiotic, also known as...
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Study: Coffee Mortality
A study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine found that coffee drinkers, especially heavy-duty coffee drinkers (five to six cups per day), had a lower mortality rate than those...
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Medical Monitoring in Large Litigations
The Massachusettes Supreme Court in Donovan v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., --- N.E.2d ----, 2009 WL 3321445 (Mass.) ruled in a large tobacco case that it was appropriate to include low dose CT scans for...
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Which Drugs Highest on 2011 List for Most Adverse Reactions? See Here.
In 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration received 179,855 reports of serious or fatal adverse drug reactions. This was an increase of more than 9% from 2010. Adverse reporting is one of the...
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US Sup Crt Successful in Up-ending Consumer Class Actions via Concepcion
Forbes has an excellent article on the effect the US Supreme Court's decision in ATT v. Concepcion has had on consumer protection and litigation.For background, the US Supreme Court found that a clause...
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More Than 12,000 Adverse Events Reported with Metal-on-Metal Hips in 2011
The metal-on-metal hips have received tremendous attention of late mainly because a number of them were recalled in 2010 for all sorts of problems.The Bloomberg News reports that in 2011 alone, there...
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Supreme Court Upholds Entire Health Care Law
In a narrow decision, the Supreme Court upheld the entire health care law that has been coined "Obamacare" in a monumental decision that will no doubt provide access to medical care for millions upon...
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Supreme Court's Historic Ruling on Obamacare: See Opinion Here
See the historic ruling and opinion below.supreme-court-decision-on-the-patient-protection.pdfDownload this filePermalink | Leave a comment »
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Pradaxa Litigation Heating Up
In December of last year, the US Food and Drug Administration issued warnings about the blood-thinning drug Pradaxa.In their warning they advise of reports of "serious bleeding events" some of which...
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