Xarelto, Eliquis antidote approval stalled

Aug. 23, 2016 -- San Diego, CA Patients taking the anticoagulants Xarelto or Eliquis will have to wait even longer for an antidote – the FDA just put the brakes on an...

Abilify whistleblowers ask court to revive False Claims Act lawsuit

Aug. 22, 2016 – San Diego, CA Two former Big Pharma sales reps asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to revive their False Claims Act suit against Otsuka and...

Essure is 2nd-most effective birth control, says FDA

Aug. 19, 2016 – San Diego, CA In an email blast today, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health ranked Essure as the second-best birth control method in...

Ky. Attorney General sues J&J over Transvaginal Mesh

Aug. 18, 2016 – San Diego, CA  Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear announced Tuesday, Aug. 16 he had filed suit against Johnson & Johnson and its medical device unit Ethicon, alleging...

SSRI Antidepressant Risks & Side Effects

Millions of Americans suffer from depression, a mental health disorder characterized by a persistently depressed mood that significantly impairs daily life. Though the exact cause of depression isn’t clear, it...

IVC Filter Risks – Device Migration Problems

[caption id="attachment_30243" align="alignright" width="245"] Picture of Bard IVC Filter[/caption] August 17, 2016 – San Diego, CA.   IVC Filters are used to help prevent blood clots from moving through the body...

More Zimmer Persona Knee Replacements Recalled

August 9, 2016 -- San Diego, CA   Zimmer Biomet is caught in another ongoing recall regarding some of the company’s metal knee replacements and their potential to fail. The Warsaw,...

Stimulated Youth: ADHD Overdiagnosis in America

The video starts off like many YouTube videos do: a young girl of the newest generation Z, holding her phone selfie-style and smiling into the camera as the world flies...

DuPont Objects to Selection of Two New Bellwethers in Teflon Lawsuits

August 3, 2016 – San Diego, CA   DuPont has asked a federal judge in Ohio to reconsider a decision to try two additional cases in a multidistrict litigation involving the...

Judge rules against plaintiffs in nearly 1,300 Mirena lawsuits

August 1, 2016 -- San Diego, CA.   A federal judge in New York ruled against nearly 1,300 lawsuits filed by women who say they were harmed by Bayer AG’s Mirena...