Yearly Archives: 2010

An estimated 93,000 people around the world were fitted with artificial hips made by DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Late last summer, those people were notified that their hip replacement systems were being recalled because the implants ... Read More

Faced with ongoing cleanup costs and widespread ecological damage, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against BP and eight other companies involved in the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ... Read More

A blanket of fresh snow turns the world into a child’s playground. What was once just a grassy hill becomes a thrilling slope for kids of all ages with sleds, tubes, and snow disks in hand. But a first-ever analysis ... Read More

Hillary Berthelet knew almost immediately that something was terribly wrong with her artificial hip. “At a certain part of the motion of my leg, the joint would … clunk. There is no other word. It would clunk,” she told CTV ... Read More

NEW YORK – A 31-year-old woman who claims to have suffered a near-fatal heart arrhythmia due to the painkiller Darvocet has filed a lawsuit against Xanodyn Pharmaceuticals in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The lawsuit ... Read More

If you are one of the thousands of people who have received a DePuy hip replacement — either the ASR (Articular Surface Replacement) Hip Resurfacing System and ASR XL Acetabular (whole hip) System – you may be experiencing some signs ... Read More

Chances are, if you have filled a prescription for a drug containing the active ingredient propoxphene, you have received a letter from your pharmacist explaining that the drug has been removed from the market by the Food and Drug Administration ... Read More

A 31-year-old New York City woman has filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant Xanodyne for heart problems she developed while taking the Darvocet her doctor prescribed to her for abdominal pain, according to the New York Post. The woman ... Read More

The influenza treatment Tamiflu now has a new Adverse Reaction added to its safety label warning of a risk of hypothermia. The safety label change was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ... Read More

The high-cholesterol treatment Zocor (simvastatin) has added erectile dysfunction and interstitial lung disease to the Adverse Reactions section of its safety label, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. The changes were made following reports of both conditions during ... Read More