Your medical implant could kill you
It was just a few minutes after 2 a.m. when Dennis Fegan awoke with a start. He got up from his bed and went to the laundry room, where he kept a calendar to record his seizures, and made a vertical mark on July 2, 2006. By late morning, when his parents found him...
Treading dangerously: Lax safety inside Goodyear tire plants
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is among the deadliest manufacturers in the nation for workers - resulting in deaths of five workers since 2015 - and the company’s safety lapses have also contributed to deaths of motorists on the road, a six-month investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
Tires involved...
More than 200 people sickened onboard Ovation of Seas cruise
More than 200 people became sick and five were hospitalized in Australia after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness aboard a cruise ship earlier this month.
Symptoms were reported by 209 guests among the 5,796 people aboard Ovation of the Seas ship, according to Royal Caribbean International cruise line spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez. The ship returned to...
Blue State AGs Tell Trump They’ll Be Watching Mulvaney’s CFPB
A group of Democratic state attorneys general told President Donald Trump they’re prepared to take matters into their own hands if the administration fails to enforce consumer-protection laws.
Trump’s choice of budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Mulvaney has mocked, suggests the consumer watchdog may be less-than-zealous...
In Second Bellwether Trial, NJ Jury Awards $15M in Ethicon Mesh Case
A Bergen County jury returned a $15 million verdict Thursday against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon in a suit over alleged defects in its Prolift pelvic repair product.
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Fracking sites may raise the risk of underweight babies, new study says
Living within half a mile of a hydraulic fracturing site carries a serious risk for pregnant women, a new study has found. The drilling technique, also known as fracking, injects high-pressure water laced with chemicals into underground rock to release natural gas.
Women who lived within that distance to fracking operations in Pennsylvania were 25...
Man wrongly imprisoned for 28 years for molestation sues city of Detroit
After doing nearly 28 years for a crime he didn't commit, Bernard Young says he's not angry or bitter - though he's still got a score to settle with the City of Detroit and the police officer he claims wronged him.
On Wednesday, the 59-year-old man whose hair turned gray in the prison system sued...
A Deadly Drug Cocktail Shines a Light on an AstraZeneca Blockbuster
The last time John Nebinger spoke to his son Bradley was about thirty minutes after midnight on March 15, 2010.
Twenty-four-year-old Bradley said he couldn’t sleep—a frequent complaint. His father went to bed.
“I found him dead the next day,” Nebinger, who lives near Seattle, said in an interview. His son was in his underwear...
In Supreme Court petition, Merck argues that FDA power shields against liability
Years after suing drug giant Merck & Co. for serious injuries allegedly caused by osteoporosis drug Fosamax, more than 500 plaintiffs will have to wait to hear the U.S. Solicitor General's take on their case, and the outcome could reverberate across the pharmaceutical industry.
That's because Merck's bid at the U.S. Supreme Court seeks to...
Drugmakers lose bid to dismiss Oklahoma’s opioid lawsuit
An Oklahoma judge has denied a bid by drugmakers including Purdue Pharma LP and Johnson & Johnson to dismiss a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general claiming the companies deceptively marketed opioid painkillers.
Cleveland County Judge Thad Balkman in Norman, Oklahoma on Tuesday largely rejected the arguments put forth by Purdue, J&J, Allergan PLC and...
