Legal Updates
Hospital fined after third botched brain surgery
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Rhode Island Department of Health has fined a hospital $50,000 after a doctor performed brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient’s head. It was the third such incident at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, which serves as a teaching hospital for Brown University. “We are extremely concerned…
Experts urge more cautious use of diabetes drugs
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
European and U.S. diabetologists called on Tuesday for greater caution in prescribing oral diabetes pills like GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia, which has been linked to increased heart attack risk. Glaxo's Avandia has lost ground to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd's Actos in recent months, following publication of a U.S. study in May…
FDA advisers back stronger flu drug warnings
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
U.S health advisers recommended on Tuesday stronger warnings on the labels of flu drugs made by Roche Holding AG and GlaxoSmithKline Plc, amid reports of abnormal and, in the case of the Roche drug, sometimes fatal psychiatric behavior. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel reviewed the small but…
Attorney General Sues New Jersey Company
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on Tuesday sued a New Jersey-based company and its subsidiaries alleging improper marketing practices. The lawsuit, filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court, asked that the companies be ordered to repay millions that Arkansas’ Medicaid program paid for what the attorney general contends were unnecessary prescriptions of…
Glaxo’s Handling of Physician Criticized
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Over a period of several years, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC was so concerned about a prominent physician's negative views of its diabetes drug that it engaged in a concerted effort to intimidate him and stifle his opinion, a report by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee found. The report offers a…
23 NYPD Cops Patients Of Doctor Who Reused Needles
Friday, November 16, 2007
State health officials are facing tough questions after it took nearly three years to alert the public about the potentially dangerous practices of a Long Island doctor. Now nearly two dozen NYPD officers who are patients of the doctor found out they must be tested for hepatitis and HIV. The…
