The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a partial response to an inquiry from a Pennsylvania congressman concerning hazards surrounding the use of power morcellators in gynecological surgeries. A power morcellator uses small rotating blades to cut up fibroid tumors, allowing the growths to be removed laparoscopically through small incisions in the abdomen. Unfortunately, many...
December 11, 2015 – The results are in. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has released its statistics on the False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for fiscal year 2015 in a recent announcement. Though total recoveries for qui tam cases are down from 2014’s record high, 2015 stands out as a winning year for...
Mesothelioma patients may benefit from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent approval of Keytruda (pembrolizumab), manufactured by Merck. Keytruda is an immunotherapy drug designed to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Keytruda works by obstructing a cellular pathway that allows cancer cells to spread. Called PD-1/PD-L1, the pathway consists of proteins...
Coal ash — the byproduct of coal-fueled power plants — contains several toxins known to cause birth defects and cancer. These toxins include heavy metals such as lead and hexavalent chromium. And yet, coal ash impoundments are subject to little or no regulation.
Coal Ash Regulation Insufficient to Prevent Birth Defects from Lead, Hexavalent ChromiumIt’s not that regulators are...
The town of Libby, Montana is probably best known for the unusually high number of its residents suffering from mesothelioma — a terminal cancer whose only known cause is asbestos exposure. According to health workers, asbestos disease has claimed the lives of 400 people in Libby and has caused injury to another 3,000 people.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent years...
C.R. Bard reportedly has paid $3.6 million to a woman injured by the company’s dangerous transvaginal mesh product. The vaginal mesh lawsuit was the first case to be tried against the medical device maker.
The jury in the case awarded the injured plaintiff $5.5 million, but the court reduced the verdict to $3.6 million. After losing its appeal from the $3.6 million verdict, the...
The United States’ neighbor to the north, Canada, has commenced steps to adopt a law similar to the False Claims Act to protect government contracts and promulgate a culture of protections for those individuals willing to come forward and report fraud. A commission comprised of individuals from the Quebec government recommends reform against companies and individuals who commit fraud and...
On August 4th, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an interpretive rule to clarify that the Commission’s whistleblower rules protect whistleblowers who report potential securities violations within the company, as well as those who report directly to the Commission, from retaliation.
The SEC’s whistleblower rules incentivize whistleblowers to bring original information...
Orthopedic surgeons are keen to learn what type of revision surgery is best for patients who are suffering injuries caused by defective metal-on-metal hip replacements. Many metal-on-metal hip implants have been recalled due to the high number of complications patients and their doctors have reported to the FDA. In hip replacement lawsuits, patients have described a number of serious injuries,...
High Rock Lake, North Carolina is one of the country’s many dumping grounds for Duke Energy’s unwanted coal ash — the left-over waste from operating a coal-fueled power generation plant. The three High Rock Lake “impoundments” have a combined capacity to hold 5 million tons of coal ash. That’s just a small fraction of the 150 million tons of coal ash that Duke maintains, mostly in...
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