Mirena and Essure are internal forms of birth control that can prevent pregnancy for years at a time. Often after a women has finished having children her doctor will recommend these as an option. However thousands of women have been suffering from side effects from…
With an enormous assortment of diabetes drugs currently on the market, the United States Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on illegal or potentially-dangerous drugs marketed from within and without the U.S. Diabetes affects over twenty-five million Americans, and there is a wide range of…
In an interesting development in the legal world, federal courts across the country, especially those in the Northern District of California, have found themselves dealing with dozens of food...
During last year's fungal meningitis outbreak, USA Today reported that epidural steroid patients were developing symptoms within 42 days of receiving a contaminated injection. A doctor with...
The pressure to raise healthy, happy children into healthy, happy adults is enormous, and the toll is showing on today's parents. It is showing up in the rate at which parents are relying on...
A recent report by Stericycle ExpertRECALL with recall data from the fourth quarter shows that 552 food recalls were announced during the last few months of 2012. This broke down to an...
In the 1950s, many pregnant women were given diethylstilbestrol, or DES, to help prevent complications such as miscarriages and premature births. By the 1970s, it was no longer being prescribed...
Multinational pharmaceutical companies seem too willing to flout laws and regualtions prohibitting the promotion of drugs for unapproved purposes, the withhoding of rebates to government health...
The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that health care providers who prescribe medications can be sued for neglgence when a patient taking medications they prescribed injures or kills another person....
More than 12,000 women are believed to have developed blood clots while taking Bayer Healthcare's Yaz and Yasmin oral contraceptives or one of the products' generic equivalents containing...
