A story in the London Evening Standard out of the U.K. says the parents of a seven-year-old boy who suffered traumatic brain injury at birth were awarded the equivalent of about $13 million.
According to the story, officials at Princess Royal hospital admitted full responsibility and apologized for the accident that left the boy with cerebral palsy.
During his mother’s labor, the boy’s brain was starved of ...
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Health care providers and federal health regulators have voiced concerns, following revelations that the United States’ largest operator of dialysis centers may have concealed reports that one of its products carries a potentially deadly risk.
A New York Times report quotes Steven Silverman, director of compliance for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s medical devices division, as saying: “Candidly, I just think it’s bad business and not ...
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Unsealed court documents say natural gas drillers, including Range Resources Corp., paid a $750,000 settlement to members of a Pennsylvania family who claimed their water was contaminated by the drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
Fracking involves pumping millions of gallons of chemically treated water underground to break up underlying shale formations and release natural gas. It’s controversial because the technique has generated a number of environmental concerns, including ...
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A high-profile British politician is speaking out about his own faulty hip implant made by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, which has “left him in agony and needing two operations,” according to a BBC story.
The story says Andrew Rothaban, Member of Parliament and defense minister, intends to join with thousands of other people who have filed lawsuits over the all-metal hip implants, which were recalled in 2010. Studies show ...
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Johnson & Johnson, the worlds’ largest maker of health care products, has announced that its first-quarter profits were down, but that its earnings nevertheless beat analysts’ estimates.
According to a story in The Star Ledger out of Newark, sales for the quarter rose to $17.5 billion, an increase of 8.5 percent from a year earlier, compared to the $17.46 billion that analysts were predicting.
The story notes that a long-running string of ...
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A ProPublica story says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found evidence that a Houston-based laboratory called Cetero, which conducted research for drug companies worldwide, tampered with records and manipulated data.
The story says the violations were found to be so pervasive and “egregious” that the FDA concluded studies conducted there between April, 2005, and August, 2009, might be useless. Yet the agency pulled none of the drugs approved as ...
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