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Where, oh where does clinical trial data go? Earlier this year, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) wrote that a large proportion of evidence from human clinical trials goes missing while cherry-picked favorable data appears. According to the BMJ, fewer than half of the data from clinical trials run using National […]

You have to give it to Shirley Boles, 74 – she just doesn’t give up. Today concluded the third in a series of trials against drug giant, Merck, over the osteoporosis drug, Fosamax. Boles of Walton Beach, Florida, took the drug for nine years and developed jaw necrosis. On Tuesday, […]

In a white paper about hernia mesh, analyst Winifred S. Hayes of Hayes Consulting helps one client figure out how to save money and be more efficient with their mesh purchases. The problem has been that in the case of hernia mesh, hospitals buy from a number of vendors and […]

A new Danish study in the journal, Calcified Tissue International, finds that a lower dose of osteoporosis drugs, also known as bisphosphonates, may actually represent a greater risk by about 50 percent of acute myocardial infarction, or clogging of the coronary vessels, when compared to a higher dose. Researchers from […]

The consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, has filed a federal complaint against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have the higher dose of the Alzheimer’s drug, Aricept, taken off the market because of the risk of fatal complications. The group made the first request 15 months ago and […]

U.S. News and World Report is revisiting a topic that needs to be revisited – the huge number of medical errors that harm and kill patients. The in-depth news report starts with a lesson presented to students at the University of Buffalo, New York, about an 88-year-old woman who was […]

AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $26 million to settle litigation involving the atypical antipsychotic, Seroquel. The South Carolina Attorney General had been after the company to reimburse state taxpayers for the off-label use of Seroquel. The company, along with other drugmakers, had challenged states that hire product liability attorneys on contingency […]

Virtually all Rejuvenate and ABG II patients have received notice from their doctor that the devices have been recalled. These patients are all now faced with the prospect of a painful and risky revision surgery. Rejuvenate and ABG II victims can basically be placed into three categories. I know. I’ve […]

  [two_third_last]The more we uncover cases such as this one, the angrier we get. Back in 1992, twenty years ago, an article in The Journal of Arthroplasty, showed that a 76-year-old man implanted with a hip prosthesis made of metals and plastic stimulated an adverse reaction that required the hip to […]

This study comes from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and was reported in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in July 1991. Researchers studied nine uncemented hip prostheses that had been revised (removed). In four of the nine hips, researchers found tissue discoloration and corrosion at the head-neck junction.  […]