More lawsuits are being filed every week against DePuy and Johnson & Johnson for hip implant failures relating to the DePuy ASR and the DePuy Pinnacle Ultamet metal on metal hip implants. In…
Pharmaceutical drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 Billion to settle for civil and criminal illegal marketing schemes that were the subject of a U.S. Government investigation. The…
Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, sued BP PLC following a 2005 explosion at the oil company’s Gulf Coast refinery. The lawsuit alleged that BP violated Texas’ state clean air act. Mr. Abbott just…
Today, it was confirmed that several new birth control drugs including Yaz, the Ortho Evra patch and the contraceptive Nuvaring, appear to increase the risk of dangerous blood clots more than older…
Transvaginal Mesh is a surgical device that recently has come under much scrutiny due to FDA reports linking it to thousands of injuries as well as deaths. The device is surgically implanted within…
A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sobering news for parents – emergency department visits for traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) among children and…
Last week the Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., and the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class I recall of approximately 131,300 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with…
It has been widely reported that metal on metal hip implants such as the DePuy ASR are failing at an alarmingly high rate. An article in today’s New York Times newspaper provides a scientific…
You might be surprised at what ingredients (and chemicals) are found in your food. The video below from the popular television program, The Doctors, discusses some of these potentially harmful…
Today will officially end summer and mark the first day of fall in 2011. While many welcome the return to routine and cool relief to summer’s blazing temperatures, there are millions of…
Last week the National Joint Registry for England and Wales reported that nearly one third of all Johnson & Johnson DePuy all metal hip implants over the last six years had failed. The Johnson…
According to a new report from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales, people who get metal hip replacements are more likely to need another surgery within seven years to replace the…
