Category: Unsafe Products and Medications

Volkswagen AG has agreed to set aside at least $10 billion to resolve civil claims by the U.S. government and lawsuits by American car owners over diesel vehicles rigged to cheat pollution controls, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The parties reached the accord ahead of a Thursday deadline set by a...

The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows.

As many as 350 patients at 41 medical facilities in the U.S. and worldwide were infected or exposed to tainted gastrointestinal scopes from Jan. 1, 2010, to Oct. 31, 2015, according...

The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses have quadrupled since 1999. To combat the epidemic, 49 states1 and Washington, D.C., have built computer systems intended to detect when people try to get multiple prescriptions, either for their own...

Hospitals' use of digital medication orders have dramatically reduced the number of dangerous drug errors, but their computer systems still fail to flag 13% of potentially fatal mistakes, a report released Thursday shows.

Medication errors are by far the most common mistakes made in hospitals — and hospital errors are the third leading cause of death in the United...

Pfizer's Consumer Healthcare is pulling tens of thousands of bottles of one of its adult Robitussin products in the U.S. due to a labeling issue. It comes just weeks after a different kind of manufacturing snafu led to the recall of its children's Advil products in Canada.

According to the most recent FDA Enforcement...

General Motors on Thursday said it had settled a wrongful death case that was set to go to trial next month as part of ongoing litigation over the company’s defective ignition switches.

G.M., the nation’s largest automaker, had already won two so-called bellwether trials being conducted to resolve a variety of legal claims tied...

Diabetes drugs containing either of two key compounds can cause heart failure in certain patients, federal drug regulators said Tuesday as they announced new warnings to be added to the labels of nearly a half dozen commonly prescribed medications. Read more

Jacqueline Fox worked in restaurant kitchens and school cafeterias, cleaned people’s houses, watched their kids, raised a son, and took in two foster children. She was careful about her appearance and liked to tend the garden in front of her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She had been treated for high blood pressure, arthritis, and...

A federal judge this week ruled that five women who claim they were harmed by Essure sterilization coils can go ahead with their lawsuit against coil-maker Bayer Healthcare.

Bayer, which is facing a barrage of lawsuits across the country, had asked that the case be dismissed because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002...

Thirty-two women sued pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG here Friday, claiming “serious and permanent injuries” as a result of their use of a controversial birth control device, the firm representing them said.

The suit claims that Essure, a device consisting of two metal coils implanted in the fallopian tubes, is flawed, and that Bayer and the...