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When the Food and Drug Administration won a landmark lawsuit this week against a stem cell company, health officials hailed it as a turning point in the government’s struggle to regulate a booming industry selling unproven treatments to desperate patients.

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Florian Wehrli is "99 percent sure" that someone has stolen his family’s medical records and financial information.

Wehrli’s wife, Noverly, was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in January 2014. Since then, the family has made countless visits to their local Quest Diagnostics medical laboratory in Newton, New Jersey, for a wide range of medical tests — including blood tests, MRI scans, CT scans and more.

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Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay at least $385 million to customers who say they were signed up for auto insurance without their knowledge or consent when they took out a car loan.

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A New York jury on Friday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $300 million in punitive damages to a woman who said her asbestos-related cancer was caused by the company’s talc-based baby powder, the company confirmed.

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday disclosed a new problem involving Boeing Co’s grounded 737 MAX, saying that more than 300 of that troubled plane and the prior generation 737 may contain improperly manufactured parts and that the agency will require these parts to be quickly replaced.

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Rhonda Olson tried to do her homework before she let a doctor permanently implant mesh in her pelvic region to shore up sagging organs. She read up on mesh treatment for what is called pelvic organ prolapse and saw some reports of problems.
She questioned her doctor. “This new mesh is safe,” she says he assured her.

It was not.

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Honda is recalling 118,598 of its 2019 CR-V SUVs because airbags can suddenly deploy even without a crash occurring. Metal on the inside of the steering wheel can cut into wires there, causing a short circuit, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 

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The Supreme Court declined this week to take up a case challenging the Feres Doctrine, the 1950 ruling preventing active duty soldiers from suing the government for negligence. 

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In October 2009, the FDA, the National Eye Institute (NEI), and the Department of Defense (DoD) launched the LASIK Quality of Life Collaboration Project (LQOLCP) to help better understand the potential risk of severe problems that can result from LASIK. The project aimed to develop a tool to determine the percent of patients who develop difficulties performing their usual activities following LASIK, and to identify predictors for those patients.

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Faced with the possibility that a bout of abnormal heartbeats could end his life, in 2006, Dr. Marc Sicklick had a small device implanted in his chest that would shock it back into rhythm. Soon he would struggle with another life-or-death choice: whether to remove the Sprint Fidelis, which was deemed dangerous and recalled in 2007 after it had been implanted in hundreds of thousands of patients.

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U.S. service members will continue to be barred from suing the Defense Department for medical malpractice after the Supreme Court declined to hear arguments on Monday from a 2015 case that challenged an almost 70-year-old legal precedent.

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