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Iowa Pays $3.75 Million to Settle Pitocin Birth Injury Lawsuit

July 11, 2012 — The State of Iowa will pay $3.75 million to settle a Pitocin birth injury lawsuit. When Martha Fountain went to the University of Iowa to deliver her full-term baby boy, she was given Pitocin — a drug that is routinely administered to...

Feds Investigate Hepatitis C Outbreak at NH Hospital

June 19, 2012 — Federal authorities are joining an investigation into a major hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital, located in New Hampshire. Investigators from the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been brought in to determine whether the...

New Program to Reduce Antipsychotic Drugs in Nursing Homes

May 30, 2012 — Health authorities in the U.S. are hoping to reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes by 15% before the end of 2012. According to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in 2010, more than 17% of nursing home...

CCSVI Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Lawsuit

The FDA has recently issued an alert on the potential dangers of the controversial CCSVI Multiple Sclerosis treatment. It is also sometimes known as “liberation therapy” or a “liberation procedure.” Some researchers theorize that Multiple...

Drug Companies May Be Required to Reveal Payments to Doctors

January 16, 2012 — According to an article in the New York Times the Obama administration may soon require drug companies to reveal payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel, and entertainment. Consumer advocacy groups hail this...

86% of Hospital Harm Goes Unreported

January 9, 2012 — More than 86% of hospital errors that result in harm to Medicare patients go unreported, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG). These unreported events included...