A Jefferson County awarded a family $16,000,000.00 in a medical malpractice claim against Brookwood Women’s Medical Center*. The case centered around Brookwood Hospital’s ads for Natural Childbirth. We couldn’t find the ads, but it’s obvious that Brookwood was using its physicians to promote the n
On Tuesday, the CDC awarded more than $16 million to 40 states and territories to create “information-gathering systems” to rapidly detect health issues associated with the Zika virus.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert about a line of cleansing hair conditioners after receiving a slew of complaints about hair loss, bald spots, itching and rashes. Some 21,000 people have lodged complaints with the manufacturers of WEN by Chaz Dean…
“In products liability actions against parties other than health care providers…for injury to the person resulting from or arising as a result of the implantation of any medical device, [the cause of action shall be deemed to accrue] when the person knew or should have known of the injury and its ca
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved safety labeling changes for a class of antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, to enhance warnings about their association with disabling and potentially permanent side effects and to limit their use in patients with less serious bacterial infections.
As reported in our article about the second bellwether trial involving an allegedly defective metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant, $360 million of the $497.6 million verdict rendered in March to five plaintiffs against Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy unit was awarded as punitive damages. As…
The FDA has recently warned that higher than recommended doses of the diarrhea drug loperamide (Imodium) can cause serious and even fatal cardiac arrhythmias. The risk of these serious heart problems may also be increased when high doses of loperamide are taken with several kinds…
For frequent heartburn sufferers, doctors often prescribe Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs), which work by reducing the amount of acid in the stomach. The drugs are so popular in fact, that the PPI market is worth over $10 billion in the U.S. alone and the three…
Por segunda vez en tres meses, un jurado de St. Louis ha ordenado a Johnson & Johnson a otorgar $55 millones de dólares a una mujer que afirmó haber desarrollado cáncer endometrioide como resultado del uso de polvos de talco por años. El fallo de…
For the second time in three months, a St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to award $55 million to a woman who contended that she developed endometrioid cancer as a result of years of talcum powder use.
In July of 2015, Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill that required drug prescribers and pharmacists in New Jersey to register for access to the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program. Christie said the bill would help prevent so-called “doctor shopping” whereby some people seek…
On April 1, 2016, a proposed limit on “inorganic” arsenic in infant rice cereal was announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Infant rice cereal is a leading source of arsenic exposure in babies, the agency said, since arsenic can find its way into…
