Vitamin Shoppe Pulls BMPEA Supplements Off Shelves
April 10, 2015 -- Acting faster than the FDA, Vitamin Shoppe has pulled supplements containing BMPEA off shelves because the amphetamine-like drug is not derived from the Acacia rigidula plant. Earlier this week, Dr. Pieter Cohen and colleagues at Harvard...
1st Zoloft Birth Defect Trial Underway in Missouri
April 9, 2015 -- The first of more than 1,000 lawsuits involving Zoloft is currently in trial, and Pfizer is accused of failing to warn women that they should use contraceptives to avoid having a baby with a heart defect....
More Hospitals Report “Superbug” Infections on Endoscopes
April 9, 2015 -- Hospitals around the nation have linked duodenoscopes to outbreaks of “superbugs,” and now some say even high-level disinfection leaves 3% of scopes contaminated. Bloomberg reports that officials at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle heightened cleaning...
Zofran Cleft Palate Lawsuit Filed in Montana
April 8, 2015 -- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been hit with a lawsuit on behalf of a child who was born with cleft lip and cleft palate after her mother used Zofran during pregnancy. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S....
More Health Insurers Drop Coverage for Power Morcellators
Several major health insurance companies have dropped or are considering dropping coverage for procedures involving laparoscopic power morcellators.
Michigan Couple Accuse Lumber Liquidators of Cover-Up
April 8, 2015 -- Lumber Liquidators has been hit with a lawsuit from a couple in Michigan who accuse the company of providing customers with formaldehyde home-test kits that are not from a third party, but from the company itself...
Texas Espar Heater Class Action Lawyer
Espar Inc. has been hit with a class action lawsuit from consumers who say they paid more for parking heaters than they should have because Espar was engaged in an illegal price-fixing conspiracy. Overview Parking heaters are devices that heat...