The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a history of harassing doctors who use ozone generators, which are currently outlawed in many states. Until recently, the FDA has refused to allow hum ...
Nestle Food Company is taking legal action to get a bigger share of the baby formula market in the US (The Lancet, 12 June 1993). It is suing two rival manufacturers, Abbott Laboratories and Mead ...
Last month a judge in Birmingham, Alabama, approved a worldwide compensation deal of $4.25 billion for more than 90,500 women worldwide with silicone breast implants. The settlement, which is to c ...
A French appeals court has ordered drug giant Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) to pay US$6686 and $10,697, respectively, as compensation to two women who developed multiple sclerosis (MS) after receiving th ...
A recent study commissioned by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), a plaintiff lawyers group, demonstrated that the success rate of legally aided claims against drug companies in Br ...
It may soon be easier to sue a drug company in the British courts, but it will be no easier to win the case. Legal aid may also be more difficult to come by. ...
We hear so much about medical blunders that it seems unbelievable that a scandal involving more than one million children in the UK alone has been going on under our very noses since 1960. ...
An American pressure group is suing the Food and Drug Administration because the additive mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) is not required to be included on food labels. ...
Thousands of obese Americans are on the warpath. They've filed lawsuits claiming they have been injured by taking either Pondimin, Redux or Fen-Phen, all slimming drugs. ...
Action by diabetics to sue the manufacturers of so called human insulin for damages seems set to collapse. ...
