Two more California hospitals have joined the growing list linked to radiation overdoses in patients receiving brain perfusion CT scans to diagnose strokes. Los Angeles Country-USC Medical Center and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital are the latest with cases of patients receiving excess radiation from brain scans. Both hospitals used CT scanners made by Toshiba, whose scanner is [...]
A study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that drug studies paid for by the drug’s manufacturer are more likely to show the drug worked than studies funded by the government or unaffiliated organizations. A review of the results of 546 drug trials found that those funded by pharmaceutical companies reported positive [...]
Merck & Co., the maker of prescription painkiller Vioxx, has settled cases with over 3,400 families in multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings in U.S. federal court. Vioxx was taken off the market in 2004 after reports that the drug doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes. A fund was established in 2007 to settle claims [...]
Boston Scientific Corp. has issued an advisory warning physicians that some models of its implanted heart defibrillators have an observed failure rate of one in 670 devices. Approximately 34,000 patients have the implanted defibrillators, which were manufactured in 2006 and 2007. The devices are no longer sold.
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