New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/business/the-high-cost-of-failing-artificial-hips.html
Study finds new artificial hips, knees not better than older models.
New Models of Implants Not Better, Study Finds<nyt_byline> By BARRY MEIER The study, which draws on data from Australia’s orthopedic registry, covered implants introduced from
FDA advisers: Ortho Evra patch needs clearer label
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/09/us-fda-birthcontrol-patch-idUSTRE7B827N20111209
Multaq (dronedarone): Increased Risk of Death or Serious Cardiovascular Events
FDA: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm264204.htm
Big Changes Coming to Phila Courts’ Mass Torts Program
The Legal Intelligencer Amaris Elliott-Engel Philadelphia’s mass torts program, which has come under criticism in the last couple of years from conservative and defense-minded quarters,
Certain NSAIDS may raise risk of rare birth defects.
Reuters (12/13, Thrasybule) reported a study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggesting that some over-the-counter painkillers, when taken during early pregnancy, may
Stronger Label Urged for Yaz
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/health/policy/stronger-label-urged-for-yaz-and-yasmin-contraceptives.html
Pennsylvania Supreme Court to review punitive damages ruling Prempro case
Bloomberg News: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/pfizer-wins-review-of-punitive-damages-award-in-prempro-case.html
Settlement reached in menopause-drug case
http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-09/business/30498417_1_pfizer-spokesman-chris-loder-prempro-menopause-drugs
Phila. jury orders Pfizer to pay 3 women $72.6 million in damages over menopause drugs
A Philadelphia jury Tuesday said pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. must pay three women $72.6 million in compensatory damages because the menopause drugs they took gave
