By Tess Schulman
By Scott Sills 
By E. Scott Sills, MD, PhD Not every woman with Essure contraceptive implants will have pelvic cramping, bleeding, painful sex, weight gain or other problems appear after this procedure. But, there is no clear consensus on what to do about women with Essure who subsequently...
By Michelle Llamas 
Popular heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors taken by millions of Americans may increase the risk of heart problems, kidney damage and death, according to two 2017 studies. The first study, published in PLoS One by Anna Maria Pello Lazaro and colleagues looked at 706...
By Michelle Llamas 
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended manufacturers of Invokana (canagliflozin) and other sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors add warnings for increased lower-limb amputations to prescribing information. On Feb. 10, 2017, the EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk...
By Michelle Llamas 
A government report revealed limitations in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s adverse event reporting system led to a 23-year delay in warning the public about serious risks linked to surgical devices called power morcellators. In 2015, the Government Accountability Office...
By Michelle Llamas 
Ethicon will defend against claims that its hernia mesh caused serious injuries in a trial slated to begin in 2018, according to court documents. The trial is the first Ethicon will face over its Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh. The plaintiff, Matthew Huff, was one of the...
By Michelle Llamas 
After its initial $1 billion dollar settlement offer in 2014, Stryker Corporation and Howmedica Osteonics Corp. reached a new agreement to compensate additional hip implant patients, according to a press release. In December 2016, Stryker announced it will “compensate additional...
By Michelle Llamas 
A study linked heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors — such as Nexium (esomeprazole) and Prilosec (omeprazole) — to increased risk of potentially serious stomach infections. The study published on Jan. 5 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology followed about... 
More than half of the nearly $5 billion recovered under the federal False Claims Act during the last budget year came from the health care industry. The U.S. Department of Justice secured roughly $4.7 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and... Page 2 of 17
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