News in category: Major Medical

AstraZeneca is fined $520 million for illegally marketing the anti-psychotic drug, Seroquel for uses not approved by the FDA, including for use among the elderly and adolescents.

Steroids such as testosterone are used by weight lifters to improve muscle mass. They are also causing heart disease and dysfunction say researchers.

Only one in five medication administrations was completely error-free finds this published Australian study. The culprit- interrutions.

The FDA proposes making committee members disclose additional conflict-of-interest with drug and device makers.

A nonprofit representing 32 medical societies has released a new code of ethics that stresses disclosure of financial conflicts from drug and device makers by doctors and medical journalists.

Improving patient safety may be a way for doctors to relieve the pressure of medical malpractice claims from injured patients, finds RAND Corporation research.

Avastin is poised to become the number one best selling drug in 2014 thanks, in part, to patents expiring on Lipitor and Plavix.

Seven years after the attack on the World Trade Center, first responders still had a reduced lung function, some equal to a decade of aging, this published study finds.

When Jill Wilkins' husband died of a mysterious brain tumor within one year after returning from active service in Iraq, the military didn't recognize illnesses from burn pits. Now she's become a one person online force with a Facebook page that helps vets connect the dots over their mysterious illnesses.

Purdue Pharma has received approval of a new formulation of OxyContin to cut down on use by drug abusers.

Drugmaker, Pfizer, is now disclosing what it pays to doctors in speaking fees and consulting in a downloadable, searchable database, an early jump on the Physician Payments Sunshine provision.

The final reconciliation of the House and Senate health care reform bill has been approved. It now goes to President Obama for his signature.

While a new study reassures patients who take bone-building drugs to treat osteoporosis, a recent study indicates that the quality of bone among users may be brittle. The latest study is sponsored by drug makers, Merck and Novartis.

A Georgia Supreme Court decision will allow those catastrophically injured by medical malpractice to take their case before a jury and have the jury decide what the case is worth, without imposed caps.

Hundreds of veterans have contacted groups reporting illnesses they believe resulted from their exposure to toxic smoke from burn pits, used by military contractors to get rid of all kinds of trash in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands more may be affected.