Current Events

Patients who received Abbott Laboratories' novel dissolving vascular stent had a significantly higher rate of serious adverse heart events than those treated with the company's widely used Xience drug-coated metal stent two years after implantation, according to data presented on Saturday.

The FDA has issued a safety announcement warning that Viberzi should not be used in patients who do not have a gallbladder due to an increased risk for serious pancreatitis.

Emails released as part of a federal lawsuit against Monsanto suggest the agriculture supplier cozied up to an EPA regulator and sought to whitewash studies to ignore potential cancer-causing effects of an herbicide found in weed-killer.

Nissan North America is recalling 54,751 Nissan Versa cars in the 2012 model year because degradation of the side-impact sensor connector pins may cause some air bags to deploy unexpectedly if the door is slammed, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Three women suffered severe, permanent eye damage after stem cells were injected into their eyes, in an unproven treatment at a loosely regulated clinic in Florida, doctors reported in an article published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

One, 72, went completely blind from the injections, and the others, 78 and 88, lost much of their eyesight. Before the procedure, all had some visual impairment but could see well enough to drive.

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Four members of a congressional committee have asked the NFL and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to answer to the allegations made in lawsuit alleging team medical and league officials ignored safety standards and the law when it came to dispensing painkillers to players.

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BMW of North America is recalling 121,737 vehicles so dealers can fix a problem with the front driveshaft’s universal joint, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The recall covers 2011- to 2013-model year X5 xDrive35i, X5 xDrive50i, X5 M and X5 xDrive35d vehicles; 2011-2014 X6 xDrive35i, X6 xDrive50i and X6M vehicles; and 2011 X6 ActiveHybrid vehicles.

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Nissan North America has announced a recall of select 2012 Nissan Versa vehicles. According to a bulletin from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the airbag systems in some of those cars may not have been properly manufactured.

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Subaru of America is recalling 25,567 Subaru Impreza cars in the 2017 model year because a software problem may cause the rearview camera display to malfunction, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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The widow of a Vermont man who died after eating raw milk cheese tainted with Listeria has filed a lawsuit against manufacturer Vulto Creamery, whose contaminated product also led to a death in Connecticut.

Veronica Friedman, widow of Richard Friedman, alleges wrongful death and emotional and financial damage in her suit against the Walton, N.Y. creamery, according to her attorney at Seattle-based Marler Clark LLP, a law firm that represents victims of food-born illness outbreaks.

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After more than nine weeks of testimony, a federal jury is slated to begin deliberating Wednesday in the trial of Barry J. Cadden, the former New England Compounding Center head pharmacist and co-owner who is accused of causing the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed more than 60 people and sickened roughly 700 more.

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