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Preemption has been a hot topic throughout the pharmaceutical and legal fields for some time now and as we move closer to monumental decision from the Supreme Court on the issue it has become...

The administrix of the estate of Elizabeth Starr has filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania based Mylan Pharmaceuticals. The company was responsible for the distribution of improperly...

Over the last decade the number of Americans affected by diabetes has drastically increased. According to a new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about 24 million...

According to a report released today the pharmaceutical industry was once again the largest lobbying presence in Washington in 2007. Collectively the industry dumped some $168 million...

Three drug companies involved with the manufacturing and distribution of the recalled heart drug, Digitek, will soon face lawsuits stemming from alleged injuries associated with the...

Today the Washington Times and ABC News are reporting that soldiers returning from Iraq are being used as test patients for medications that have been linked to serious adverse reactions....

Over the past several months concerns involving the prescription smoking cessation medication Chantix have been mounting. In the last quarter of 2007 the FDA received nearly 1000 reports of...

Today the FDA and ETHEX Corporation issued a voluntary recall of a single lot of morphine sulphate tablets after a report suggested that some of the tablets were twice the appropriate...

A panel of outside experts is set to meet on July 10 to advise the FDA on how best to communicate to consumers elevated risks of suicidal thoughts and behavior associated with epilepsy...

A new study is causing quite a stir over Pfizer’s popular stop smoking aid Chantix. This week the FAA announced that Chantix would no longer be included in the list of medications that pilots...

Yesterday the Federal Aviation Administration removed the popular smoking cessation drug Chantix from the list of medications that pilots are allowed to take. The decision from the...

Pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. Inc., has reached an agreement with 28 states to settle claims that the company used deceptive marketing practices for the recalled painkiller Vioxx. The...

Yesterday the FDA announced that Bayer would be removing remaining stocks of Trasylol after a study confirming suspected increased death risks was published in the New England Journal of...

According to a long awaited study published today, Bayer’s Trasylol has a 53 percent higher death rate than other similar drugs. Trasylol was withdrawn from the market in November after the...

Today a federal court is scheduled to start hearing a case that will for the second time this year have parents telling their stories of how their children developed autism after be vaccinated...