It kills more people than car accidents every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified it as an epidemic and the World Health Organization (WHO) reported it threatened the...
July marked the 50 th anniversary of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the primary funders of more than 15,000 nursing homes in the U.S. The White House’s Department of Health and Human Services use...
One of the first laparoscopic power morcellator lawsuits filed in federal court settled for an undisclosed amount last week before it was scheduled to reach trial. Scott Burkhart filed the lawsuit aga...
New studies may point to more data calling Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto’s safety into question – most notably the possibility of an increase in stomach bleeds and eye hemorrha...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that a new class of Type 2 diabetes drugs, including Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster Invokana, may cause a serious condition that can lead to hospitalizat...
There’s nothing like an anniversary or commemoration to remind you about things you take for granted or people that have inspired you. The AMC movie network pays tribute to die-hard consumer advocate,...
Amid growing concerns about the link between the blood-thinner Xarelto (rivaroxaban) to dangerous bleeding risks, a new serious side effect of the drug is coming to the forefront: post-surgical infect...
After several years of hard-fought litigation, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and its American subsidiary, Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., this week settled thousands of lawsuits in one of the largest d...
U.S. lawmakers are wondering why European hospitals were warned about contaminated duodenoscopes two years before the deadly Superbug outbreak in Los Angeles and U.S. health care providers weren’t war...
The largest knee implant maker in the world recently recalled thousands of its Persona Knee implants, leading the Food and Drug Administration to issue a warning that the implants can loosen early and...
