Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Pfizer Inc. must pay $72.6 million in damages to three women who said they developed breast cancer after taking the company’s menopause drugs, a Philadelphia jury decided. Jurors today in state court deliberated over two days before finding hormone-replacement drugs made by Pfizer’s Wyeth and Pharmacia Upjohn units were responsible for [...]
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No Generic Drug Preemption For “Dear Doctor” Letters
A Nevada State Court Judge ruled that plaintiffs can sue generic drug manufacturers despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling protecting drug companies from lawsuits in PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
Sadaka’s Science Tips: The Role Of The FDA
What does it mean when a drug is FDA approved? It means that a drug is safe and effective for use. The primary role of the FDA is to ensure that prescription drugs and medical devices are safe and effective. The FDA determines the safety and efficacy of a product by reviewing the results of [...]
Medical Devices Unnecessarily Implanted Causing Injury And Death
In a study published in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers scrutinized the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) in 111,000 recipients to analyze whether or not they met the appropriate criteria for placement of one of these devices. In this study, researchers found that an overwhelming 22.5% of [...]
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FDA Cops To Get Act Together
Bottom-Line: FDA cops operate with little accountability to the FDA…let alone the American people. Evil doers beware. The cops at the FDA are getting better organized and more cash to chase executives who seek to do harm to the public’s health. Cops at the FDA you ask? Why yes there are cops at the FDA. [...]
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