Many men use bodybuilding supplements before, during, and after workouts to increase the potential for building and keeping muscle, while burning fat. These bodybuilding supplements often contain high levels of caffeine and other various chemicals to keep energy levels high during a tiring workout. Some men find it hard to […]
The power morcellator, a surgical device used to mince large masses of tissue inside the body so the material can be extracted through small incisions, has been the center of a debate in the medical community since the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) discouraged its use in April, 2014. The FDA discouraged the use […]
Benicar is prescribed to treat hypertension and contains the active ingredient olmesartan. One side effect of Benicar is villous atrophy. Villous atrophy is a condition which causes some users to be hospitalized for weeks or months as a result of being unable to properly absorb food and water. Furthermore, as […]
On January 9, 2015, the Department of Justice announced that Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese corporation who has its United States headquarters in New Jersey, was fined $39 million as a result of violating the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe drugs manufactured by […]
When did Olympus first learn about the design problems inherent in the specialized medical scopes it peddles? Did they have plans to redesign these scopes to make them safer for patients? These are the questions at the top of U.S. Representative Ted Lieu’s (D-CA) mind after he sent a letter […]
A reported 100,000 Americans, including a 54-year-old Illinois man and 36-year-old North Carolina woman, have reported severe side effects from Levaquin, an antibiotic that packs enough pill power to kill anthrax. Levaquin, a drug classified in the fluoroquinolone family, is now undergoing another Food and Drug Administration evaluation because of the controversy. Twelve […]
New Medications Meet Unmet Patient Needs The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of 41 novel new drugs in 2014 made it a banner year for the pharmaceutical industry. The class of 2014 included biologicals, drugs that treat cancer and infectious diseases (bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral) and therapeutic drugs. The […]
At the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the new year started off with an approval of the first therapeutic weight loss option for obese patients since 2007. The device – the Maestro Rechargeable System – was given a thumbs-up following a scientific study of a […]
Safeguarding, streamlining, strengthening the clinical trial process is one of three of the Food and Drug Administration’s primary goals for 2015. So states an 11-page document titled 2014 – 2015 Strategic Priorities. The other two goals focus on 1) striking a better balance between data collection requirements and the time […]
Since the passage of the “Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act,” the supplement industry has effectively been a wild west of snake oil salesmen foisting their sometimes fraudulent and dangerous miracle cures on the American public. We’ve been writing about this terrible federal law for years – a law that […]
