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…
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…
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…
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…
DePuy ASR hip implant patients in most states who do not file lawsuits before August 23, 2012 may lose their rights to compensation or to file a lawsuit. Every state has a law called the…
There are over 1,000 lawsuits in the DePuy Pinnacle hip MDL, the multi-district litigation set up by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. This MDL is being overseen by U.S. District…
Many woman suffer from vaginal prolapse – a common condition where the bladder, uterus and or bowel protrudes into the vagina. This can cause symptoms such as a sensation of a vaginal lump,…
Utah ranks 4th in the nation for prescription drug abuse and that abuse kills more Utahns each year than car accidents do. The problem is not limited to Utah, given that 48 million Americans have…
According to a press release recently issued by Consumer Reports, an investigation conducted by the consumer watch dog organization reveals that some very common medical devices have never been…
People suffer approximately 5 million brain injuries, also known as traumatic brain injuries or tbis, in the U.S. every year and about 2 million of those result in permanent damage to the victim….
According to a bulletin recently issued by AARP, hospitals can be very dangerous places. One highlighted statistic notes: The number of patients who die each year from preventable…
