The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are coordinating a multi state investigation of the source of the fungal meningitis outbreak that has caused five deaths. These patients, along with thousands of others, had received an epidural steroid injection, preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate […]
The predictions are not good. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, a woman age 50 and over has about a 50 percent risk of suffering bone fracture. One quarter of them will be a fracture that affects the vertebrae. Healing from this type of injury also slows as one ages […]
Results of recent studies indicate that Mirapex, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome, may carry a risk of heart failure. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not positively identified the risk and is working with the drug’s manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim, to conduct a […]
That is the question both the state of Massachusetts and the Food and Drug Administration will be required to answer as the death toll rises to 14 with 170 sickened in 23 states from a contaminated steroid injection. As it turns out both state and federal agencies can regulate the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now say more people may have received a contaminated steroid injection than previously thought. Up to 14,000 patients may be at risk in this unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis, which could have an incubation time of up to three months. The latest […]
A follow-up of patients who received hip replacement surgery by the National Joint Registry of England and Wales has researchers issuing an ominous warning – women are strongly urged to avoid the hip replacement procedure known as “resurfacing,” according to a published report in the British medical journal, The Lancet. […]
Compounding Pharmacies The controversy over the fungal meningitis outbreak that is traced to contaminated steroid injections has brought compounding pharmacies under the spotlight. This is not the first time. A compounding pharmacy mixes drugs for use by hospitals and clinics. Often they make up for a shortfall in drugs, as […]
Where, oh where does clinical trial data go? Earlier this year, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) wrote that a large proportion of evidence from human clinical trials goes missing while cherry-picked favorable data appears. According to the BMJ, fewer than half of the data from clinical trials run using National […]
Victims of transvaginal mesh have additional time to file a product liability action. Rulings in multidistrict litigation (MDL) have extended the discovery time deadlines in the pre-trial process and pushed back a deadline for the lawsuits to begin. The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, in the Southern District of West […]
This is a tough one to believe. A Minneapolis doctor issued a press release going on the attack against plaintiffs’ lawyers who are representing women seriously injured by synthetic mesh used to treat prolapse and incontinence Dr. Jon Nielsen doesn’t let the facts get in the way. Nielsen, a doctor […]
