Every year, millions of people around the world will fight an ultimately losing battle with sepsis. Indeed, statistics from the Mayo Clinic show that there are anywhere from 200,000 to three million cases of this condition here in the U.S. every year. While the unfortunate reality is that modern medicine has yet to devise a […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made headlines last November when it strongly urged surgeons not to use power morcellators in either hysterectomies or myomectomies, and decreed black-box warnings, the highest warning level issued by the agency, would henceforth be used on the devices. These rather definitive actions by the FDA came on the […]
Scores of Americans die or become sickened by medications every year, even though our nation ostensibly conducts exacting tests to ensure drug safety. One of these cases involved the tragic death of a Pennsylvania woman after she took the prescribed drug Pradaxa in 2012. Now the woman’s two daughters are seeking financial compensation for wrongful […]
