News & Commentary on Prescription Drug & Medical Device Lawsuits
A former farm worker named Enrique Rubio may just be the right “David” to take down “Goliath” chemical company Monsanto. Rubio filed suit against the manufacturer of Roundup® early last week, claiming that the company’s infamous herbicide is the cause of his bone cancer and inability to work.
Roundup’s® safety has been hotly debated for…
A recent article from Slate.com by Matthew Yglesias provides an interesting overview of problems and solutions in health care reform.
Published Friday January 24th 2014, the report begins by citing a recent Gallup poll demonstrating a recent and dramatic decline in the number of Americans without health insurance. Likely the result of the further…
In the wake of the recent fungal meningitis outbreak that left 64 dead and infected some 751 Americans, traced back contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center (Framingham, MA), the United States Food and Drug Administration has sought greater oversight over the pharmacy compounding industry.
To that end, Congress passed the Drug…
It is no secret that Americans pay some of the highest prices for pharmaceutical drugs in the world. And, while the Affordable Care Act will help maybe 50 million uninsured Americans secure health insurance, that law will have no effect on the overall price of medication.
Soaring drug prices are likely the result of a…
A recent article published by HealthDay News on MedlinePlus, a service of the US National Library of Medicine, purports that “the expansion of Medicaid … could lead to more use of emergency departments instead of less”.
This article cites new research that found Oregon users of Medicaid, “the publicly funded health insurance…
One recent article by ProPublica, a prominent investigative journalism outlet, chronicles a lack of proper government oversight and coordination that “can expose Medicare recipients to potentially unsafe medical treatment and keeps tax dollars flowing to unworthy providers”.
The problem is this: some doctors who are terminated from Medicaid practice due to “inappropriate drug…
The United States is currently working to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-nation trade agreement that by eliminating “tariffs and other barriers to goods and services trade and investment”, may result in risks for food safety in the US, says Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT).
According an interview with Julian Hattem…
A recent article published by Forbes.com purports that Obamacare is harming the American healthcare system. While the healthcare system we had before the Affordable Care Act was not perfect, it was more fundamentally sound than after the ACA took effect. Problems with U.S. Health Care System should have been closely examined in 2009 and appropriate…
The wide range of tools the internet can provide has proven problematic in the regulation of prescription drugs that are sold from online pharmaceutical companies based in foreign countries. Counterfeit drugs have exploded onto the scene and as reported by Forbes, the worldwide market for these drugs is estimated to be worth 75 billion…
A recent article by Eric Palmer of the pharmaceutical news website FiercePharmaManufacturing.com writes that some trade groups, including PhRMA are trying to overturn a law passed unanimously in Alameda County, California that requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to pay for a medication “recycling” program for currently in place in the San Francisco Bay area.
As the law…