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What do politicians, medical device manufactureres and pharmaceutical companies have in common? They are all incapable of learning that a cover-up will inevitably be far costlier than…
After recalling more than 90,000 DePuy ASR XL Acetabular Systems and DePuy ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems, Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics, reported to patients and…
Two New Jersey men sued Subway this week, claiming the world's biggest fast-food chain has been shorting them by selling so-called footlong sandwiches that measure a bit less than 12…
Junior Seau's suicide last May shocked the sports world. In addition to being one of the greatest NFL linebackers of all time, Seau appeared to be a friendly, happy person. He was a…
When a pharmacy acts like a manufacturer of drugs and undertakes to compound sterile drugs, which drugs will later be injected or infused into patients' bodies, who should be ultimately…
New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc., the Massachusetts pharmaceutical company blamed for a nationwide meningitis outbreak, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to deal with lawsuits filed…
Compounding pharmacies are major suppliers of infusable and injectable solutions used by some of the nation's biggest hospitals. As the recent meningitis outbreak shows, contamination of…
The national fungal meningitis outbreak that has been linked to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, the New England Compounding Center, has resulted in hundreds of illnesses and many deaths. In…
Paul Woody is a journalist for the Richmond Times Dispatch who happens to cover sports. There are not many sports writers these days whom I would call 'journalists. Starting today, the RTD is…
in June 2008, Stryker Orthopaedics, a major U.S. medical device manufacturer, received FDA approval for its Rejuvenate Modular Hip System. FDA approval was based on Stryker's representation…
The Stryker Rejuvenate hip replacement device was designed and marketed as an alternative to the metal-on-metal hip implant devices that have dominated the medical device news lately. The…
A New York Times article on the Texas prison system entitled, In Texas, Arguing That Heat Can Be A Death Sentence for Prisoners, exposes a shameful problem that exists in jails and prisons…
