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U.S. District Judge Says it Could Take Decades to Try Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin said that it could take decades and cost millions of dollars in fees to try the more than 70,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits that have been filed against seven pharmaceutical companies. Goodwin has urged the device makers ...
HIV Vaccine Shows Promise in Primates
A team at the Scripps Research Institute in California has discovered a new means to fight HIV, which could forever change the way the virus is treated and prevented. A different means of approaching vaccination, the treatment has started to show promise i...
FDA Orders Bayer to Issue Stronger Warnings as Yasmin Lawsuits Increase
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Bayer AG to strengthen the blood-clot warnings on products such as Yasmin, which contains a synthetic hormone called drospirenone that has been found to triple the risk for blood clots.Bayer has paid over $4...
Obama’s New Budget Aims to Make Biotech Treatments More Affordable
The Obama administration recently revealed its new $3.99 trillion budget for 2016. It announced its plans to negotiate prices for costly drugs and biotechnology treatments under the Medicare Part D program, which offers private coverage for senior citizens...
Medication Causes… Pneumonia?
Imagine the very medicine that is meant to maintain and restore health by preventing certain illnesses is found to do the exact opposite? Well, a recent study released by the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle has found just that."Our study is ...
HSBC Helps Wealthy Customers Evade Taxes and Hide Millions
The Swiss subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc has admitted to helping its wealthy customers evade taxes and hide millions of dollars in assets. Who are these wealthy customers receiving special and illegal treatment? The client list runs the gamut from royalty...
Blood Transfusions Potential Cure for Ebola
The military hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, conducted a controlled clinical trial in which 35 ebola patients received blood transfusions from donors who survived the disease. Though comparisons with the control arm of the study are not currently avail...
Honda Downplays Deadly Airbag Defects in the U.S.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. recently announced it would be cutting its profit forecast by more than $400 million as a result of the mounting costs to recall cars containing potentially deadly defective airbags.The automotive manufacturer has been f...
New WHO Regional Director For Africa Plans To Terminate Ebola
The Ebola epidemic in 2014 represents the largest outbreak of the deadly disease in the recorded history of mankind. The devastating illness has killed more than 10,000 people and affected more than 22,000.While the virus sprinted through West African ...