Allergan has been issued a subpoena by the Inspector General regarding the company's lap band obesity treatment device. The company disclosed the subpoena about its gastric band implant. It is unclear why the subpoena issued by an article published last year in the journal ARCHIVES OF SURGERY found that nearly half of the patients...

Boston Scientific indicated in a Product Performance Report that its Congnis implantable cardioconverter defibrillator may have contributed to the death of at least one patients. This has raised concerns about Bosth the Cognis and Teligen devices. The company said that the incident occurred with the device's transformer malfunctioned during the high-voltage charging cycle leading...

Humana, a Kentucky based health care company has sued preval group the marketer of pills that purportedly boost memory. In the lawsuit, Humana says Preval's ads for a drug called "concentra" caused customers across the nation to complain about Humana's advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show. Humana argues that Preval knew that its...

According to a report by the UK's Telegraph, a study soon to be presented at the British Hip Society conference will include findings that suggest the metal particles shed by metal-on-metal hip replacements could cause chromosomal changes which may lead to kidney and bladder cancer. The study involved 82 patients, all who received all...

Following a spate of recent lawsuits of its HAIR LOSS DRUG Propecia, Pharma giant Merck has taken all info about the drug off its web site. In recent months, an increasing number of men have filed Propecia suits alleging that the company failed to warn about the risk of erectile dysfunction, loss of libido,...

Researchers in Boston have found that the longer a woman uses heartburn drugs including Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium, the more likely they are to suffer a hip fracture. The study examined data on 80,000 postmenopausal women who took these medications known as proton pump inhibitors (PPI's). Compared to non users, woman had an overall...

A whistleblower has filed a complaint in federal court saying that Forest Pharmaceuticals paid the principal investigator of a federally finded antidepressant study to fix the results in favor of its drug Celexa. Edmund Pigott, a psychologist living in Maryland, says the violations happened during the company's management of a $35 million clinical trial...

The nation's largest nursing home drug provider, Omnicare, which paid nearly $10 million two years ago to settle a whistleblower lawsuit has now been met with a new suit alleging that it wrongfully received millions of dollars annually from Medicare, Medicaid, CHAMPUS and other government health insurance programs. The new complaint came from whistleblower...

In a settlement filed on Dec 29 in the Federal District Court in Boston, Actavis has agreed to pay the government over $118 million for falsely reporting inflated prices of drugs and falsely collecting higher reimbursement rates from Medicare. The whistleblower in this case was a group of individuals who own and manage a...