CQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law...
Hearings began on Tuesday, May 12th before the Subcommittee on Health on H.R. 1346, The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009. I explain it below but before you go any further make sure to read the...
Hawaii has a few Swine Flu cases, most recently a student up at UH. Our medical community seems well organized and prepared. The entire country seems to be on top of this situation. Embedded video...
The New York Times (5/7, B4, Abelson) reports, The New Jersey attorney general has announced a settlement with a medical device maker accused of failing to disclose financial conflicts of...
The New York Times (5/5, D5, Rabin) reports that dozens of women are suing the maker of [a] vaginal sling, called ObTape for complications they claim are associated with the product. The product...
The New York Times (4/22, A15, Harris) reports, An unusual internal meeting scheduled for Wednesday at the Food and Drug Administration may signal how agency officials intend to handle the many...
recent studies have shown that intra-articular pain pumps can cause catastrophic cartilage damage The pain pump is designed to deliver medication directly to the surgical wound site or in close...
The New York Times (1/16, A15, Harris) reports, Most medical devices have never been shown to be safe or effective, and for the riskiest devices this must change, Congressional investigators...
The Wall Street Journal (1/7, A2, Burton) reports, A federal judge threw out lawsuits on behalf of thousands of patients with heart-defibrillator wires that have been shown to fracture and dispatch...
Ian Lawrence is a physicist is suffering from a cancerous tumor that was discovered on the optical nerve leading to his left eye. According to BBC News, Europeans are looking to a small number of...