Fisher-Price has issued a recall for millions of products, some of which have injured children.  If you have any of the following high chairs, tricycles or toys in your home, do not let your children use them. The recall includes:

If you have a recalled DePuy ASR hip implant, you’re probably wondering how you will pay to have it fixed.   On its Website, Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics unit said it will foot the bill – if patients agree to certain conditions. But legal experts are warning that DePuy’s stipulations are designed to protect the [...]

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would be starting an investigation into a 40-day emissions release from the BP Texas City refinery that began on April 6 and ended on May 16.  During that time, the plant released 538,000 pounds of pollutants into the air, including 17,000 pounds of benzene, a [...]

Could today mark the end of the road for Avandia?   The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) just announced pretty tight restrictions on the controversial diabetes drug, while the agency’s European counterpart has suspended all sales of Avandia and related drugs there. The reason? Avandia’s well-documented heart risks. In the US, Avandia’s label already included [...]

The feds must believe that two former employees of Pfizer Inc.’s Wyeth unit were on to something when they filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the company illegally marketed its organ transplant drug Rapamune.  It seems the Justice Department now wants to join the lawsuit and take over the litigation. The whistleblower provisions of the False [...]

If you’ve been taking proton pump inhibitors and have suffered a heart attack, you might want to talk with your doctor about other possible heartburn treatments.  A new study has found that taking proton pump inhibitors  in the months after a heart attack could raise the risks of another cardiovascular event by as much as [...]

The thought of 400,000 gallons of sewage is enough to make anyone sick. But in Leon Springs, Texas, it may have made its way into the water supply of a popular pizza restaurant, causing an E. coli outbreak that sickened at least 24 people. Patron’s at Fralo’s Art of Pizza began getting sick in mid-August.  [...]

Just as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) embarks on a study to assess the health and environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, one regulatory group – the Delaware River Basin Commission, or DRBC – may be easing up on gas drillers.  According to a report in The New York Times, it is even reducing [...]

It does appear that a recent Food & Drug Administration (FDA) warning regarding fractures and proton pump inhibitors is affecting how physicians prescribe the heartburn drugs.  A survey by dtw Marketing Research Group, Inc. found that 22 percent of physicians expect to decrease their usage of prescription proton pump inhibitors because of the FDA safety [...]

It seems the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be ready to ignore gas driller’s pleas that it limit the scope of a hydraulic fracturing study it announced in March.  Environmentalists have pushed the EPA for a comprehensive study, but the industry has insisted it should only focus on water quality. At a public hearing in [...]