For the first time, a Texas jury has decided the pelvic mesh made by healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was defectively designed. The jury awarded the 64-year-old Dallas woman $1.2 million following a two-and-a half week trial. The case has implications for all pelvic mesh which is overwhelmingly made of […]
On any given day in the state of Florida, there are approximately 750 children ready to be adopted from foster homes with no identifiable family. There are also over 50,000 children in Florida who are neglected or abused, every year. Searcy Denney has decided to do its part in trying […]
There appears to be no shortage of advertising for testosterone products for men to relieve low sex drive and fatigue. But these products remain without any warning on the product labels despite a recent study that showed the risk of heart attack is doubled in men taking Low-T supplement products. The […]
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 […]
