The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a total of four prescription drugs for obesity since 2012. In a population where two-thirds of the adults are considered overweight or obese, it is not surprising that there is such a demand for the medications. The most recent drug to gain FDA approval is called Saxenda. The drug was approved in December, 2014, and insurance companies have already stated that they will not ...
Recently Approved Weight-Loss Drugs Will Not Be Covered by Many Insurers
Posted January 30, 2015 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
U.S. District Court Dismisses F.D.A. Whistleblower Suit
Posted December 2, 2014 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls | Verdicts & Settlements
A recent decision by a U.S. District Court Judge dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit filed by six current and former scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The employees had complained about the safety of various medical devices that came through the FDA. After doing so, they found that their private communications were being secretly monitored by FDA officials. The Washington Post reports that although the claim and its ramifications “troubled” the ...
GSK Warned over Vaccine Plant
Posted October 1, 2014 in Product News and Recalls
GlaxoSmithKline received a warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the conditions at its manufacturing facility in Quebec. The FDA said that the plant violated quality requirements during the manufacturing of its influenza vaccine Flulaval.
The FDA sent a letter to the company on June 12 after an inspection of the plant earlier this year. The investigation found that GSK had not established and followed written procedures to prevent microbiological contamination of ...
continue reading...At-home dialysis helps quality of life
Posted December 11, 2013 in Granuflo Recall Lawsuit | Health | Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls
The East Montgomery County Observer tells the story of a 27-year-old man with kidney failure, whose quality of life was greatly improved when he began using a portable, in-home dialysis system.
He previously had to make a long drive and arrive at a dialysis center at 5 a.m. in order to finish the 4-hour treatment, then make it to work on time. Doctors told him that routine would be necessary three ...
continue reading...Pattern still sought for deadly dialysis center infections
Posted July 18, 2013 in Granuflo Recall Lawsuit | Health | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls
AL.com reports that a dialysis center in Bessemer, Alabama, remains shut down, but investigators have yet to identify a specific cause or pattern for the infections that killed two patients and hospitalized several others in May.
Although a laboratory analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recovered six different bacteria from blood cultures of patients who were sickened, no pattern indicating a specific cause has been established.
The center’s ...
continue reading...Experts: Dialysis not always best option for older patients
Posted June 26, 2013 in Granuflo Recall Lawsuit | Health | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls
A federal law dating to the 1970s provides virtually free dialysis to anyone suffering from kidney failure, according to a story in the New York Times. But renal experts are trying to encourage doctors to give older kidney failure patients, many of whom suffer from other ailments, a more realistic assessment of how much the procedure is likely to help them.
According to the story, recent studies have concluded that not ...
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