With more than 27,000 transvaginal mesh cases consolidated in one federal court in West Virginia, the first bellwether case is now in its second week. Donna Cisson, 55 was implanted with a Bard Avaulta Plus Posterior BioSynthetic Support System in May 2009. She has undergone several removal operations after pain […]
What happens when low quality diabetes test strips enter the market? They give inaccurate readings which can prove fatal to a diabetic who must monitor the amount of sugar in his blood and deliver a dose of insulin according to the reading. Writing in Huffington Post, diabetes advocate Riva Greenberg […]
Ambien is an over-the-counter drug used to help people get to sleep and stay asleep. Chronic sleep disorders, also known as insomnia, are estimated to affect about 50 to 70 million Americans. But the active ingredient in many of these insomnia medications, zolpidem tartrate, is also landing many users in […]
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 […]
The goal of this published study was to identify common medical practices that offer no benefit. Doctors are often convinced by a drug and/or medical device representative that the latest and greatest drug or medical procedures will make them a better doctor. An analysis of 363 studies finds that not […]
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 […]
Researchers from the British Medical Journal have dug into the data previously withheld on Byetta and Januvia, drugs, known as incretin mimetics, and found the diabetes drugs could be riskier than previously thought. Both drugs are used to treat type 2 diabetes. Byetta (exenatide) is made by Bristol-Myers Squibb and […]
Hurry up and wait appears to be the word from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it comes to the safety of medical devices. The agency was supposed to have issued a final proposal by the end of June on a mandate to make it easier to identify […]
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 […]
