Medtronic (MDT) to Pay $23.5 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations,...
Medtronic Inc (NYSE: MDT) has agreed to pay $23.5 million to the United States government to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to use its pacemakers and...
View ArticleMinnesota AG Accuses Accretive Health (AH) of Federal and State...
Accretive Health Inc. (NYSE: AH) shares fell 41.86% to $10.75 per share after Minnesota’s attorney general said the Chicago-based health care billing company improperly posted debt collectors in...
View ArticleJ&J Executives Concealed Device Flaw; Court Documents Reveal
As reported by the New York Times, Johnson & Johnson management were aware of a dangerous design imperfection years before they removed from market a defective artificial hip in 2010, internal...
View ArticleUnitedHealth Sued For Mental Health-Care Access Violations
The New York State Psychiatric Association and mental-health patients filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York against UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) for allegedly violating...
View ArticleWoman Files Lawsuit Against Bayer After Sustaining Mirena IUD Injury
An Arizona woman has filed a lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, against Bayer over claims that the company’s birth control system, Mirena IUD, caused her to sustain serious bodily...
View ArticleFormer College Football Players File Lawsuit against NCAA for...
A class action lawsuit on behalf of former college football players nationwide who have not played in the National Football League (NFL) was filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
View ArticleSun Pharmaceutical Drug Mix-up Sparks Recall
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., (SUNPHARMA.NS) recalled 2,528 bottles of Type 2 diabetes drug Metformin HCI after a consumer found tablets of the epilepsy drug Gabapentin in a Metformin HCI bottle....
View ArticleSt. Joseph Medical Center Heart Stent Lawsuit Settles for $37 Million
Catholic Health Initiatives, former owner of St. Joseph Medical Center, agreed to pay up to $37 million in order to settle a class action lawsuit involving allegations of unnecessary heart stent...
View ArticleMedical Device Maker Warns Europeans of Infection Risk, Waits Three Years To...
The Los Angeles Times reported on July 24, 2016, that Japanese medical device company Olympus Corp. emails show that the company warned European hospitals that its medial scopes could be infected with...
View ArticleWARNING: St. Jude’s Medical Warns of Potential Premature Battery Depletion In...
On October 11, 2016, St. Jude’s Medical warned patients with certain of its implantable defibrillator devices (pacemakers) that the batteries may deplete sooner than expected. According to the FDA, due...
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