- Wayne Parsons | January 07, 2009 1:47 PM | Honolulu, HI
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Medical Devices & Implants
The Wall Street Journal (1/7, A2, Burton) reports, A federal judge threw out lawsuits on behalf of thousands of patients with heart-defibrillator wires that have been shown to fracture and dispatch...
- Wayne Parsons | May 19, 2009 3:33 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The Wall Street Journal (5/19, Johnson) reports, The Justice Department and 16 states joined two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that Wyeth defrauded the government by offering discounts to...
- Wayne Parsons | April 21, 2009 5:01 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Bloomberg News (4/21, O'Reilly) reports,
Wyeth, the drugmaker being acquired by Pfizer Inc., must face a lawsuit by a woman who claims her breast cancer was caused by the menopause medicine...
- Wayne Parsons | March 23, 2009 1:41 PM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register (3/20) Joel Olah, executive director of aging resources of central Iowa, wrote,
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of...
- Wayne Parsons | October 30, 2008 4:04 PM | Honolulu, HI
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Medical Devices & Implants
Hot topic these days is pre-emption. Think of it as complete immunity for drug companies. The american association of Justice (AAJ) just released some blockbuster news about a Bush...
- Wayne Parsons | October 30, 2008 3:26 AM | Honolulu, HI
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Medical Devices & Implants
One week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case, Wyeth vs. Levine, that would give the Drug Industry and Big Pharma complete immunity, the Center For Justice & Democracy...
- Wayne Parsons | October 28, 2008 5:56 AM | Honolulu, HI
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Medical Devices & Implants
In an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), doctors oppose the Bush Administration attempt to grant complete immunity to drug companies through a doctrine know...