We have all heard the stories of individuals who have stockpiled supplies like gloves and hand sanitizer to sell at the highest price. And it’s not just individuals; businesses also appear to be taking advantage of a surge in demand. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group analyzed prices on Amazon […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
West Palm Beach, Florida The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has recently taken the extraordinary step of requiring The Breast Institute at the JFK Medical Center North, located at 2201 45th Street in West Palm Beach, Florida, to notify their patients and their medical insurance companies of serious deficiencies […]
Stent implantation for supporting blood circulation into blood vessels Problem With Abbott’s Trek and Traveler Catheters Prompts Class 1 Recall A Class 1 recall has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a pair of balloon catheters made by Abbott. The catheters – the NC Trek […]
In 2019, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon issued a recall for its Proximate® reloadable surgical staplers due to a flaw with the device that may have resulted in staple lines being compromised during gastrointestinal surgeries. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified the recall as a Class I recall, […]
In February of 2020, an announcement was made that the weight loss drug lorcaserin (sold under brand names BELVIQ and BELVIQ XR) would be voluntarily withdrawn from the market in the United States due to concerns that the drugs might cause or promote cancer in patients. The FDA had also […]
“What JUUL did that’s different is it exploited social media, where American middle and high school kids live. That was their innovation.” JUUL Market Entry Reversed a Downward Trend in Teen Nicotine Use The above quote by Dr. Robert Jackler, a Stanford University professor, explains how a pair of graduate […]
What does human trafficking look like? Imagine a young girl on her cellphone, texting, then telling her parents she is going to meet her friends for the night. Or imagine a young girl who does not speak English and has no visible means of support yet wears designer clothes, carries […]
Litigation Update On January 30, 2020, class action, consumer protection and pharmaceutical lawyers from around the country will be in federal court in Tampa, Florida to argue before a panel of federal judges whether individual and class action lawsuits filed over the recalled Zantac should be consolidated before a single […]
At the start of every year, resolutions are made to lose weight, get in shape, spend less, save more, etc. They are made to complete a project that has dragged on for months. They are made to tackle a goal that has lingered in the distance. And so forth and […]
Is the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency charged with protecting the safety of Americans from dangerous and deadly items in the marketplace, doing its job? A Senate report released in December 2019 raises the question after faulting the powers that be for their ineffective responses to recalls involving […]