
Power morcellator use down 80% since FDA’s safety warning, new study finds
Aug. 29, 2016 – San Diego, CA The use of power morcellators has gone down since the Food and Drug Administration recommended against using them during hysterectomies in 2014, a...

Market for diabetes to double by 2022 with Invokana leading the charge
Despite risks for diabetic ketoacidosis, type II diabetes drug Invokana expected to continue billion-dollar sales as diabetes market as whole estimated to double Aug. 26, 2016 -- San Diego, CA...

Kids head back to school with books, backpacks and stimulant medications?
Aug. 25, 2016 -- San Diego, CA The dog days of summer are coming to an end and students across the country are once again heading back to school where test-taking...

How Big Pharma Helped Create the ADHD Boom
“This is a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels,” Dr. Keith Conners, psychologist and professor emeritus at Duke University, told the New York...

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...
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