Two women sued two doctors and Avanir Pharmaceuticals, claiming the doctors injured them by prescribing Avanir’s Nuedexta, used only to treat pseudobulbular effect, which gives people fits of laughter or crying, though they do not have the disease, and the doctors were taking benefits from Avanir when they did it, in Cuyahoga County Court.
Read moreThe Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social sued Zimmer Biomet Holdings in federal court, claiming it “used bribery as an integral part of its worldwide marketing strategy” for its medical devices.
Read moreThe Department of Health and Human Services can enforce a new national policy governing the allocation of donated livers to transplant patients while a lawsuit challenging the policy is pending in federal court, a federal court judge in Georgia ruled Thursday.
Read moreIn a negligence case against C.R. Bard for its pelvic mesh product, a federal judge has asked the Third Circuit to resolve “whether Pennsylvania recognizes a strict liability claim for a manufacturing defect of a prescription medical device.”
Read moreA class of horse buyers claims several Kentucky veterinarians altered x-rays and then destroyed the medical records to conceal the true condition of horses sold at auction at the world-renowned Keeneland Racecourse.
Read moreJapan’s Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents.
Read moreJohnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries agreed to pay $120 million to settle multistate claims they misrepresented the safety, effectiveness and longevity of its hip implant devices, the California attorney general announced Tuesday.
Read moreThe SEC brought a federal complaint Wednesday alleging tha damaging information about the breast-implant company, Sientra, was concealed ahead of a $61 million IPO.
Read moreIn a ruling filed Tuesday, a federal judge in Wisconsin ordered that the state and its insurers must cover transition procedures for transgender state employees.
Read moreA mall security guard found vindication at Europe’s highest court on Wednesday in her bid for acknowledgement of the special risks she would face if made to work night shifts while breastfeeding.
Read moreA doctor who says he is bound by the teachings of Jesus Christ to provide care for the sick, claims in court the U.S. Forest Service violated his right to religious freedom by refusing him access to a woman who has been sitting in a tree protesting the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Read moreThe Food and Drug Administration is seeking a permanent injunction to stop two stem cell clinics from treating patients with stem cell products for serious health conditions and diseases, claiming that the treatments were marketed without proof of safety from the FDA, according to complaints filed Wednesday in federal court.
Read moreA federal judge advanced claims Monday by a couple whose daughter has been in a persistent vegetative state for the last decade after going into diabetic shock.
Read moreCalifornia’s medical regulator did not violate patients’ right to privacy when it pulled records from a state prescription-drug database in an investigation of a doctor accused of over-prescribing dangerous medications, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreThree Kentucky residents who say they have a “legitimate and dire need” for medical cannabis claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Kentucky’s laws on marijuana possession and trafficking violate the state’s own constitution.
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A federal judge Tuesday found it a simple call that the California Department of Public Health unlawfully fined a medical-waste disposal company $567,000 for disposing of biohazardous materials out of state.
Read moreMilwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. is the target of another federal lawsuit over a death in his jail, as family members of a man who died of thirst claim he was tortured in solitary confinement.
Read moreThe Texas Occupations Code permits licensed marriage and family therapists to diagnose a client’s emotional, mental and behavioral problems within their expertise, the state’s high court ruled, reversing a lower court.
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