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Study confirms high impact activities are harder on artificial hips

Posted: May 14, 2012 Pharmaceutical

People who return to high impact sports following hip replacement surgery enjoy a higher quality of life, but their device generally fails faster than less active patients due to wear and tear, according to a study published recently in the

Harvard Medical School to stand trial for Alzheimer’s research fraud

Posted: May 14, 2012 Consumer Fraud

Harvard Medical School will face trial for conducting research fraud after a U.S. Appeals Court overturned the decision of a lower court Tuesday and ordered the case to proceed. The claim, which involves one of the largest Alzheimer’s disease research

Minnesota woman sues Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon over vaginal mesh injuries

Posted: May 11, 2012 Pharmaceutical

Stacey, a Minnesota woman who was implanted with a Gynemesh brand transvaginal mesh device says the mesh has failed, leaving her with severe physical and emotional injuries. She now joins a growing number of women who have filed claims against

Mental health decline in Gulf Coast two years after BP oil spill

Posted: May 11, 2012 Environmental

A new Gallup poll surveying the emotional health of Gulf Coast residents has found that people in counties fronting the Gulf of Mexico continue to suffer from various forms of emotional distress more than two years after BP’s disastrous Deepwater

UK regulators issue warning about DePuy’s MITCH TRH all-metal hip implants

Posted: May 11, 2012 Pharmaceutical

The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a safety warning for MITCH TRH acetabular cups and MITCH TRH modular heads – a metal-on-metal hip implant system manufactured by U.K.-based Finsbury Orthopaedics, a division of DePuy

Could your antidepressant be doing more harm than good?

Posted: May 11, 2012 Pharmaceutical

Depression is a condition that goes beyond “the blues,” and some statistics show that as many as 10 percent of adults in the United States will experience depressive symptoms at some point in their lives. Symptoms can include sleeping disorders,

NJ doctor may lose license for inappropriate testosterone replacement and painkiller prescriptions

Posted: May 10, 2012 Pharmaceutical

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has moved to suspend the medical license of a doctor who, investigators allege, indiscriminately prescribed potent testosterone replacement drugs such as Androgel in addition to powerful prescription pain medications, including OxyContin and Roxicodone when

Montana man settles personal injury claim with Ford in Firestone tire blowout case

Posted: May 10, 2012 Product Liability

A settlement has been reached between a Montana man and Ford Motor Company in a personal injury case that has gone on for nearly six years, the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune reported.

Abbott to pay $1.5 billion for illegally promoting Depakote, thanks to whistleblower lawsuits

Posted: May 10, 2012 Consumer Fraud

Abbott Laboratories has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve criminal and civil charges for fraudulently promoting its anti-seizure drug Depakote for a number of unapproved, off-label purposes. The near-record payout, the second largest by a drug

Former Actos patient sues Takeda over bladder cancer injuries

Posted: May 10, 2012 Pharmaceutical

A West Virginia man is the latest person to file a lawsuit against Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company over injuries he alleges were caused by taking the diabetes drug Actos for years.