Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control released these startling numbers. They also found that each year, 325,000 require hospitalization. The numbers show that over the last couple of years, our...
With peanuts being the issue for a couple of months ago, many people were surprised with the sudden inclusion of Pistachio's as another nut to worry about. Unlike the congressional action that was...
Iowa Senator Grassley is leading the investigation into Dr. Joseph Biederman. The doctor that was cooking the books on the trial testing of pharmaceuticals. The testing as to if drugs are safe for...
Dr. Scott S. Reuben, an anesthesiologist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., falsified clinical trials that he wrote about in 21 journals. Going back to 1996 he was providing support...
The drug AstraZeneca has been approved by the FDA to be used for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. But, AstraZeneca has been marketing the drug to patients suffering from depression and anxiety....
The FDA issued a warning this week that covering the risk of skin burns in patients wearing transdermal drug patches who are undergoing MRI scans. Most of the patches are sold by prescription except...
This past week, the United States Supreme Court decided Wyeth v. Levine. The Court upheld a $6.7 million jury award to a musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection of an anti-nausea...
The Injuryboard blogs have spent a lot of time on the many issues involving pharmaceutical companies. How they were controlling FDA actions, writing their own bills in congress and most recently...
Usually, I find a lot of the rhetoric about what affect each government budget will have to be just talk. We need to balance a number of items and not everyone is going to be happy. Personally, I...
The New England Journal of Medicine, published a study this week that linked melamine to kidney disease in children. Melamine has been a subject of many blogs here at the Injuryboard. In particular...