British health regulators are set to warn recipients of metal-on-metal hip implants that they are at risk of metal poisoning and devices are overall more dangerous than previously thought. According to U.K.’s The Telegraph, The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency’s products division is set to issue a warning to recipients of devices like the DePuy [...]

The company which owns the crashed cruise ship Costa Concordia has offered passengers on that failed trip an indemnity settlement for their lost luggage, travel expenses and medical costs. According to an MSNBC.com report from Rome, Italy, Costa Cruises is offering passengers aboard that trip a total of $14,460 for “lost baggage and psychological trauma” [...]

Pharmaceutical company Novartis AG has agreed to pay $99 million in a settlement with current and former sales associates over an unpaid overtime lawsuit. More than 7,000 current and former employees of Novartis working as travelling sales representatives, mostly, filed the suit against the company claiming they worked long hours for no pay and don’t [...]

Chemicals commonly found in microwave popcorn and several other household products are likely destroying the efficacy of childhood vaccines. According to a report at MSNBC.com, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have the ability to lower the immune system responses to common vaccines for diphtheria and tetanus. Children who had concentrated or high levels of PFC in their [...]

A recently filed whistleblower lawsuit claims life insurers MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc. have disregarded information they’ve obtained in order to not pay death benefits to beneficiaries. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the civil lawsuit has been filed in an Illinois court by Total Asset Recovery Services LLC. The accusing firm believes [...]

Members of the U.S. House are calling for one of its Committees to investigate the safety of two surgical devices, the Lap-Band gastric band and all forms of transvaginal mesh. These medical devices have been associated with a rash of recent incidents of serious injuries associated with their use. According to a Bloomberg report, House [...]

Most of the important communications regarding prescription drug safety and side effects go unnoticed, according to the results of a recent study on their effectiveness. According to a report from the online journal EndocrineToday.com, a University of Chicago team of researchers examined dozens of drug communications issued by the Food and Drug Administration since 1990 [...]

A Texas woman has become the latest to file a lawsuit against the makers of the NuvaRing contraceptive, claiming she suffered deep vein thrombosis just a month after beginning the treatment. According to The Southeast Texas Record, a local online legal journal, a Denton, Texas, woman seeks $10 million from a jury in a lawsuit [...]

The captain of the sunken Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia appeared in court today to answer charges of manslaughter, abandoning a ship and causing a shipwreck. On Wednesday, Francesco Schettino asked to be kept under house arrest rather than be jailed until a trial date is set. Schettino, during a three-hour hearing, pleaded his side [...]

The death toll at the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner off the coast of Italy was updated today to 11 as rescue workers fought worsening weather conditions in an attempt to find any survivors still aboard the vessel that’s half-floating in the Mediterranean Sea. At least another 23 people remained missing at last report, according [...]