In a Boston federal court on Thursday, British drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline, entered into a guilty plea, and agreed to pay $3 billion for criminal and civil violations involving ten drugs. As part…
This is a story about how the pharmaceutical industry pollutes the safety and efficacy regulatory process by the use of kickbacks and aggressive consumer marketing, including celebrity…
The lawsuits filed on behalf of retired National Football League players against the NFL are getting a lot of press. The retired players accuse the NFL of knowing that repeated concussions…
Infuse is a bio-engineered bone graft device that is marketed by Medtronic for lumbar surgery. It is intended as a substitute for the traditional surgical procedure involving the taking of a bone…
The Penn State football dynasty and the Roman Catholic Church both for decades have put their own prestige and privilege ahead of the safety of children. The criminal convictions last night are a…
Almost 16,800 adverse events associated with metal-on-metal hip implants were reported ito the FDA from 2000-2011. This number does not account for the under-reporting phenomenon whereby, it is…
According to an AP article today, predictions that multitudes of unmanned drones could be flying here within a decade are raising the specter of a “surveillance society” in which no…
Every parent knows that teenagers love video games. So, what better way to teach teen drivers about the dangers of texting while driving or other forms of distracted driving than by having them…
So, a client asked me the other day about how it is determined whether a judge or jury hears their case. I started to explain the process. Essentially, when we file a complaint, the document…
Thiazolidinediones is the name for a class of drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes. The class incudes Actos and Avandia. A new study published in The Archives of Internal Medicine involving over…
Johnson and Johnson subsidiary Ethicon notified judges today in state and federal product liability lawsuits that it was recalling and would no longer market the transvaginal mesh products…
Oh, brother. Another Click It or Ticket campaign, as we roll into the Memorial Day weekend. Haven’t we had enough? I mean, what are these law enforcement people thinking? It’s…
