Rural America’s Own Private Flint: Polluted Water Too Dangerous to Drink
ARMENIA, Wis. — The groundwater that once ran cool and clean from taps in this Midwestern farming town is now laced with contaminants and fear. People refuse to drink it. They won’t brush their teeth with it. They dread taking showers.
Rural communities call it their own, private Flint— a diffuse, creeping water crisis tied...
FDA isn’t doing enough to prevent medical device hacking, HHS report says
(CNN)The US Food and Drug Administration is not doing enough to prevent medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps from being hacked, a report from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General said Thursday.
"FDA had plans and processes for addressing certain medical device problems in the postmarket...
Subaru, Toyota recall 165,000 U.S. cars with defect that could lead to engine stalling
Subaru and Toyota are recalling about 165,000 U.S. vehicles they manufactured jointly after discovering a defect that could lead to the engine stalling in rare cases.
The affected vehicles were assembled by Subaru at a joint venture operation in Japan.
The recall covers about 140,000 Subaru vehicles in the U.S. and about 25,000 of Toyota's Scion...
FDA announces recall of another heart medicine for possible cancer risk
The US Food and Drug Administration is alerting patients of another recall of medicine used to treat high blood pressure, for a potential cancer risk due to contamination. This time, SciGen is recalling certain lots of irbesartan.
The recalled lot will have "Westminster Pharmaceuticals" and "GSMS Inc." on the label, according to the FDA list.
Another...
Exclusive: Wells Fargo says auto insurance remediation will not wrap up until 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co will not finish paying back the estimated 600,000 customers it wrongly charged for auto insurance until at least 2020, the bank said in a letter to U.S. lawmakers seen by Reuters.
U.S. regulators slapped Wells Fargo with a $1 billion penalty in April when it admitted to wrongly...
Life, Death And The Lazarus Drug: Confronting America’s Opioid Crisis
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a stunning statistic. Seventy-two thousand people, it estimates, died of drug overdoses in 2017. The huge increase in deaths is largely due to heroin and powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
One of the tools being used to fight that wave of deaths is the...
Pharmacy benefit managers must face lawsuit over EpiPen prices – judge
Four pharmacy benefit managers must face a lawsuit alleging they breached their duties as administrators of employee health insurance plans’ drug benefits by causing Mylan NV to raise the EpiPen allergy medication’s price, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday denied motions by CVS Health Corp,...
Wells Fargo hit with lawsuit over robocalls to wrong numbers
(Reuters) - A proposed class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accuses Wells Fargo of making tens of thousands of automatically dialed, or “robo,” calls to cell phones without consumers’ consent.
Filed on Thursday on behalf of a nationwide class, the lawsuit accuses Wells Fargo of calling wrong numbers with auto-dialing equipment and failing...
Mercedes-Benz sent recall notices too late: feds
Federal regulators are investigating Mercedes-Benz over whether it was too slow to mail out notices for a recall of 1.4 million cars in 2017.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent the German carmaker a 14-page letter asking it to explain why customers weren’t informed of the recall within the federally mandated time period.
The US...
Jury Awards $1.25 Million in Pradaxa Bleeding Death Case
Ridgefield, Connecticut-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. was not upfront about the risks of its blood thinner, Pradaxa, a federal jury found Wednesday evening before returning a $1.25 million award for the family of an 84-year-old woman who died of severe bleeding.
The nine-person jury in the Southern District of West Virginia, Huntington Division, found for...
