Just to be safe, drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer healthcare will remove all of its weight loss drug alli from stores shelves in the U.S. and Puerto Rico due to fear of contamination. There have been at least 20 reports of retail purchases by consumers where the pills and capsules were […]
This news is not surprising to anyone who pays attention to medical device recalls. There has been a substantial jump in medical device recalls – up 97 percent over the last decade! This news comes from the division within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that regulates medical devices. […]
Based on new documents uncovered within the bowels of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), researchers at Harvard University have joined voices with many FDA watchers to conclude the way most medical devices make it to market does nothing to assure patient safety. Specifically, the researchers were looking at how […]
Shareholders have sued the maker of a surgical robot claiming the company has “grossly underreported” injuries and deaths attributed to the da Vinci. The 67-page shareholder derivative complaint was filed by the city of Birmingham and Alabama’s Relief and Retirement System naming Intuitive Surgical of Sunnyvale, California, the maker of […]
The U.S. Attorney General’s office says it is reviewing an open letter submitted by a consumer group encouraging a criminal probe into the destruction by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of pelvic mesh litigation documents. That announcement comes after Corporate Action Network (CAN) asked Eric Holder Jr. to explore how and […]
Yesterday afternoon, Congress’s Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to examine the FDA’s proposal to change the rules of generic drug labeling. Under the current law, enacted in 1984, warning labels for particular drug formulations are created by the brand-name manufacturers, and generic manufacturers are legally prevented from altering them. […]
When the mercury-based preservative thimerosol was slowly removed from childhood vaccines it was assumed that the astonishing rates of autism would decline. Autism is a brain abnormalty that makes children socially awkward if not totally withdrawn. For years it was suspected that mercury toxicity was behind cases of autism, estimated […]
Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals have been dealing with multiple lawsuits stemming from its drug Risperdal. Shortly after dodging a $1.2 billion judgment in Arkansas, J&J has returned its focus to the multidistrict litigation (MDL) currently pending in Pennsylvania. The company is now trying to shield […]
The Wall Street Journal reports on conflict of interest disclosures that have evolved as a result of transvaginal mesh (TVM) lawsuits filed against healthcare giant, Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson. Amid the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents provided in the 17,000 cases filed in federal court […]
Two years ago, healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was facing a $1.2 billion judgment after a jury determined J&J concealed the risks of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal while it aggressively and improperly marketed it off-label. At the time it was the largest state fine over the mismarketing of Risperdal and […]
