New York’s selection of a geologist with industry ties for a study on the potential link between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes has both environmentalists and government watchdogs concerned, according to a Bloomberg article.
The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation chose Robert Jacobi, a University at Buffalo professor who has advised drillers for two decades, to lead the seismology study as part of its environmental review of hydraulic fracturing.
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When you’re getting treatment for urinary incontinence, your doctor is likely to ask you a series of questions, according to the Mayo Clinic.
A story in U.K. newspaper The Telegraph says Johnson & Johnson employees were not only aware of problems with its ASR hip implant for years before the device’s 2010 recall, but actively discussed manipulating data to conceal those problems.
State officials in Massachusetts have shut down 11 specialty pharmacies of the type responsible for last year’s 
According to a story in the New York Times, Merck is delaying its attempts to get approval for an experimental osteoporosis drug called odanacatib, because it is seeking additional data from a clinical trial. That announcement helped send the company’s shares down 3 percent.
An editorial in the New York Times takes Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics to task for apparently sitting on evidence that a line of its hip implants posed a 
