Florida school shooting: Lawyer says more families likely to sue
The lawyer who filed notice of a lawsuit on behalf of a student shot five times in the massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School says he expects to be filing legal papers for more families of victims soon.
Lawyer Alex Arreaza told USA TODAY that evidence increasingly reveals mistakes by the Broward County...
How to derail the ‘antibiotic apocalypse
Top public-health officials descended on Capitol Hill last Thursday to sound the alarm about a grim future without antibiotics. These life-saving drugs are losing their mojo as germs adapt to them. It’s a process scientists call antibiotic resistance.
In the US, 2 million people a year catch drug-resistant infections, 23,000 die and the toll “is...
Kobe Steel, Toyota hit with U.S. lawsuit over vehicle metal quality
NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. consumers have filed a lawsuit against Kobe Steel Ltd (5406.T) and Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles.
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Emergency room data shows the opioid crisis continues to accelerate
More than 142,000 people were taken to emergency departments for opioid overdoses during a recent 15-month period, the latest sign the drug epidemic continues to worsen despite the efforts of public health authorities.
The 142,557 emergency visits in 45 states marked a nearly 30 percent increase between the third quarter of 2016 and the same...
How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled
Thomas “Bud” Brown makes his way out the back door and stops a few steps to the right, raising a trembling arm, pointing at something. It’s where he found his boy slumped against the cold back wall of the house around 7:15 a.m. on the last day of 2016, bleeding out.
Brown is telling the...
Equifax Says It May Lose Access to Some Card Data Over Breach
Equifax Inc., the credit bureau breached by hackers last year, said the card-payments industry may cut off its access to certain data or impose fines if the company can’t prove it’s addressed weaknesses.
Equifax disclosed the latest fallout from the cyber attack in a regulatory filing on Thursday, hours after announcing it had identified more...
Big pharma, big data: why drugmakers want your health records
Drugmakers are racing to scoop up patient health records and strike deals with technology companies as big data analytics start to unlock a trove of information about how medicines perform in the real world.
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IVC Filter Lawsuit Filed for Vena Cava Perforation
The lawsuit was filed by Angela W., a woman from Marion County, Indiana who was injured by the Celect® Inferior Vena Cava Filter (“IVC Filter”) manufactured by Cook Medical and William Cook Europe ApS.
The IVC Filter was surgically implanted in her inferior vena cava for the purpose of preventing a pulmonary embolism (blood clot...
Justice Dept. to target opioid manufacturers, distributors in new push to curb deadly epidemic
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that a new task force would target drug manufacturers and distributors for their roles in the opioid epidemic, raising the possibility of filing criminal charges against them.
The Justice Department also said it would file a statement of interest in hundreds of lawsuits against drug companies brought by cities,...
Pharmacist tied to U.S. meningitis outbreak gets eight years in prison
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts pharmacist was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison after being convicted on racketeering and fraud charges stemming from his role in a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds more.
Glenn Chin, the former supervisory pharmacist at New England Compounding Center, was convicted by...
