The FDA has sent a warning to Fresenius Medical Case Holdings Inc. that th company has not taken sufficients steps to address a faulty product, the Liberty Casetts a disposable part for dialysis machines. Over 118 complains said that the devices leaked causing adverse patient reactions and cases of peritonitis. No recall has been...

Congress is investigating the Johnson & Johnson company for secretly buying back Motrin tablets from stores in a phantom recall of defective products without publicly notifying the buying public. The children's medicines were pulled after FDA inspectors found defective manufacturing process, bacterial contamiantion of raw materials. Rather than announcing the recall, the drug company...

An expert panel convened by the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research has recommended new warnings on Fosamax for bone fractures. Fosamax is prescribed for treatment of osteoporosis and is used by more than 20 million people having generated over $3 billion in annual sales for Merck. A number of lawsuits have been...

Forest Labs has agreed to pay in excess of $300 million to settle cases brought against it by the Department of Justice for various violations of The False Claims Act concerning distribution of different drugs including Levothroid and Celexa.

Several lawsuits have now been filed over the Johnson & Johnson DePuy ASR hip implant which has been recalled worldwide after data revealed a very high failure rate. Over 93,000 people around the world have received one of the defective hip implants. Patients report pain, swelling, Inflammation and infection surrounding the bone and tissue....

Last week, Johnson & Johnson announced the recall of its ASR XL Acetabular & ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems. Now, it has been learned that in some cases, the products have chipped or broken, leading to pain and also leading to broken bones around the hip socket. The J & J subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics says...

The FDA has released its quarterly list of medications being monitored for advese event reports for the second quarter of 2010. Included on the list is the popular cholesterol drug Zocor now linked to a series and potentially life-threatening muscle disease rhabdomyolysis. The agency also identified potential signals for serious risk associated with Cleocin,...

On Aug. 26 Johnson & Johnson DePuy Orthopaedics accounced the recall of the ASR XL Acetabular System hip socket, a partial hip replacement involving placing a metal cap on the ball of the femur in order to preserve the bone. A large number of people required a second hip replacement. Over 93,000 ASR devices...

Actos, a major selling diabetes drug causes major heart problems just as Avandia, the drug recently reviewed by the FDA and required to increase warnings. Sales of Avandia have plummeted and resulted in class actions against its manufacturer. Similar actions are anticipated against Takeda by heart attack victims who have taken Actos and possibly...

Intermune Inc. of California will pay the U.S $36.9 million to settle a False Claims Act case for misleading methods of drug marketing to patients for treatments never approved. The company marketed Actimmune for tretament of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis which the FDA had not approved . The whistleblower will receive 25% of the settlement.