Monthly Archives: October 2010

Brittan’s largest drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has agreed to pay $750 million to settle lawsuits that claim the company knowingly sold substandard baby ointment and other drugs that were manufactured in a plant in Puerto Rico. The false-claims lawsuit was ... Read More

Weeks before the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and creating the country’s worst offshore oil spill, BP and Halliburton knew the cement they were using to plug the exploratory well was ... Read More

A report produced and aired recently by ABC News examines the safety issues surrounding the vaccine Gardasil. The vaccine, manufactured by Merck & Co., has been approved since 2006 for young girls, as a prevention against the development of cervical ... Read More

Just months after Jacqueline Lum had an artificial hip joint surgically implanted in her left hip, she began having problems. The constant pain and disability has her walking with a cane. “It hurts to sleep at night,” she told News ... Read More

A New Hampshire gunpowder substitute manufacturer faces federal fines of $1.2 million following a deadly plant explosion in May that killed two workers who had been on the job for just a month. Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health ... Read More

You would think German drug giant Bayer would have learned its lesson not to overstate the benefits of its drugs in marketing campaigns after shelling out $20 million in advertising last year to correct claims that its blockbuster birth control ... Read More

Stem cells injections into the joint could one day replace painful hip and knee replacement surgeries, according to a study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. A team of researchers at Manchester University and Central Manchester NHS Foundation, both in ... Read More

A federal jury in Jonesboro, Arkansas has awarded $19 million to a man who sued Ford Motor Company over defective safety belts. The jury award is believed to be the largest federal verdict over defective seat belt design in the ... Read More

Dr. Walter R. Threlfall, a veterinarian who specializes in reproductive health, was stumped when a small lap dog that had been spayed began showing signs of being in heat. Tests revealed elevated levels of estrogen, which could mean some ovary ... Read More

New information has been added to the Warnings and Precautions, Contraindications, and Clinical Pharmacology sections of the antiviral drug Invirase (saquinavir), warning of a potential change in electrical activity of the heart when Invirase is used with another antiviral medication, ... Read More