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In 2011 Endo Health Solutions bought American Medical Systems for $2.9 billion. That may have been a mistake because since then, the number of product liability lawsuits naming AMS over its transvaginal mesh has grown to 22,000 cases. Now the company is looking ahead to the impact on its bottom […]

In the production of pharmaceutical drugs there are large scale drug manufacturers which produce brand name and generic drugs, and there are compound pharmacies which are specialty pharmacies made to fill out unique orders for clients using already existing medications. Drug manufacturers fall under FDA standards and regulations, while compounding […]

General Motors has received reports of 13 deaths caused by an ignition-switch failure. GM’s Chief Executive says she is sorry. Mary Barra, who took over the Detroit-based company in January, told Reuters the company will initiate a recall which will “take time to play out” and that GM will cooperate […]

Generic drugmakers are increasingly becoming more frightened of the threat of products liability lawsuits because of a proposed rule that would require them to change their labels if the company receives new safety information about the drug. These label changes would overturn a three decade old regime of prohibiting generic […]

The boy was just 10-years-old and he wanted a male rat to join his female pet rat. Petco was the nearest pet store and grandma bought the rat companion. But when Aiden Pankey got the rat home, it bit him. Aidan died June 12, 2013 from a bacterial infection, allegedly from the […]

Do we really need a new highly addictive opioid analgesic on the market to treat chronic pain, especially considering the high rates of drug addiction in the U.S? The drug Zohydro is set to be marketed come March and its approval is sparking a firestorm from consumer, drug addiction and […]

Whether a smoker is trying to quit tobacco or just trying to be fashionable, you may have noticed more e-cigarettes being smoked or “vaped” in public. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are a trendy, non-offensive way to display the panache of smoking without inhaling the chemically-laced nicotine from a tobacco cigarette. Though […]

You’ve seen the ads on television. With just a dab of testosterone (T) gel under one’s arm, men can have their hormone levels restored as well as their sex drive, muscles, energy, hair, whatever has declined as they age. But a new study shows the practice of turning back time […]

Are men and women affected the same by the same dose of a drug? It turns out that the answer to that question for some drugs is no, and the Food and Drug Administration understood that for the sleeping aid Ambien as far back as 1992. CBS’s 60 Minutes tackled the issue […]

Two years ago, the Food and Drug Association (FDA) was still uncertain about how to address growing concerns over the effects of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants. So, on June 27, 2012, the FDA’s Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel convened an Advisory Committee in order to hear experts and the public […]