According to a Wall Street Journal report, Johnson & Johnson and the U.S. Justice Department are close to settling a lengthy investigation into allegations that the company used illegal tactics in marketing its antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
The report cites unnamed sources who said the settlement would be one of the highest ever in a drug marketing case.
Federal law says drug makers can market medicines only for uses approved by the U.S. ...
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According to an article by Keith Oken, M.D., cardiovascular diseases expert at the Mayo Clinic, congenital heart defects require ongoing monitoring. And that applies whether the defects are mild and require little medical treatment, or major and potentially life-threatening.
Oken gives this advice in response to a query from the parent of a six-year-old girl who had two heart defects — a ventricular septal defect and an atrial septal defect – ...
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In a recent article, The Motley Fool writer Catherine Baab-Muguira addresses a number of recent management errors and product recalls at Johnson & Johnson.
She writes that they’ve “had investors scratching their heads and asking: Is Johnson & Johnson broken?”
The Department of Justice filed a civil False Claims Act against Johnson & Johnson in 2010, alleging that the company had illegally paid kickbacks to nursing-home pharmaceutical supplier Omnicare to induce Omnicare ...
continue reading...There’s a higher risk of earthquakes when wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing process is injected back into the ground, according to a report by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
But a CNN story says it’s a small risk. Out of about 30,000 disposal wells nationwide, only a handful of noticeable tremors have been reported, with the strongest equivalent to a magnitude-4.8 earthquake, the panel of engineers and scientists concluded.
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” ...
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A report on NBC 10 out of Massachusetts mentions a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine dealing with risks of birth control pills.
Researchers found that otherwise young, healthy women doubled their risk of heart attack and stroke if they use oral contraceptives that contain low-dose estrogen and progestin, such as the compound drospirenone.
Pregnancy itself is a risk factor for the blood clots that cause strokes. But a ...
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According to a story on Medical Xpress, a study shows that the use of antidepressants may put women at higher risk of giving birth prematurely. But depression itself doesn’t appear to be a risk factor.
The results, reported May 25 online in the journal Epidemiology, found that taking antidepressants during pregnancy significantly increased risk of what is called a late preterm birth. According to Medical Xpress, late preterm birth is defined ...
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