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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the enthusiasm over the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine appears to be waning. While 53 percent of 13-to-17-year-old girls received the vaccine in 2011, only 33 percent of young women received the three doses in the series by 2012. The […]

Johnson & Johnson is considered a great stock and a buy for most investors despite the fact that the company cannot seem to shake its problem-plagued public relations. The latest news – the healthcare giant will pay $22.9 million to cover quality control failures. You’ll recall its McNeil Consumer Healthcare […]

Saying this was the first mistrial he had declared in his 20 years on the bench, U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin ended a product liability trial naming C.R. Bard after a witness for the plaintiffs made a statement that could not be undone. Dr. Lennox Hoyte, a female pelvic […]

It was 2005 and Karen Bartlett, 53, took a generic drug, a version of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug Clinoril. Instead of relieving the pain in her shoulder, Bartlett’s skin began eroding from two-thirds of her body. Her reaction was identified as Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which is an allergic reaction triggered by […]

It is a startling revelation concealed in court documents – C.R. Bard, one of the six primary plastic mesh manufacturers – knowingly sold vaginal and hernia mesh that was made of a material unsuitable for human implantation. What’s worse was that court documents show executives knew the Marlex polypropylene should […]

The first federal transvaginal mesh trial that names manufacturer C.R. Bard begins this week in Charleston, West Virginia. Plaintiff Donna Cisson was implanted with the Bard Avaulta Plus Posterior on May 8, 2009 in Toccoa, Georgia. Bard Urological, a division of C.R. Bard, Inc. designed, labeled, manufactured and sold the […]

A new analysis of federal data finds that pain pill addiction is now a woman’s problem that has spiked 400 percent in recent years. It used to be that more men were addicted to pain pills, men who did backbreaking physical labor, but since 1999 there has been a turnaround. […]

It may sound good – bee pollen, green tea, all natural ingredients, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers that Fat Zero is anything but natural. Consumers are being warned not to purchase Fat Zero for weight loss or any other reason. It is sold on […]

Cook Medical has just been added to the name of corporate defendants consolidated in Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) in Charleston, West Virginia. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) added Cook on July 11 and with it transferred 13 complaints from eight different districts. Cook joins five other major transvaginal mesh […]

It is unclear what caused the deaths of two patients injected with the anti-psychotic medication Zyprexa, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating. According to the FDA, the two died a few days after being injected with Zyprexa Relprevv. The drug’s warning label contains information about delirium sedation […]