Pharmaceutical company Takeda recently suffered a blow when the FDA determined that their medication, Uloric (febuxostat), should no longer be recommended as a first-line treatment…
A California man has filed a new hernia mesh lawsuit against manufacturer Covidien, L.P., and Medtronic, Inc. He claims that after being implanted with the…
When the FDA first approved the gout medication Uloric (febuxostat) in 2009, they required a warning be placed on the label that alerted doctors and…
The U.S. Congress is considering new legislation that would ban flavored e-cigarettes, which are believed to be partially to blame for the increase in teenagers…
Individuals with diabetes and some heart conditions are required to check their blood regularly. For example, patients with heart conditions who are taking the blood…
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recently settled three different lawsuits concerning in which plaintiffs alleged that its talc-based products caused cancer. Though the company denied that…
The FDA recently warned that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are taking the 10 mg twice-daily dose of tofacitinib (Xeljanz, Xeljanz XR) may be…
On February 21, 2019, the FDA released a new safety communication concerning the gout medication, Uloric (febuxostat), manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceuticals. This was an update…
Shortly after a California court linked glyphosate, the herbicide in the popular weed killer Roundup, to a plaintiff’s cancer, Los Angeles County officials ordered a…
As of September 30, 2018, the FDA had received 660 medical device reports of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), including nine deaths. Though…