General Healthcare News

When some medical devices fail, they can cause serious, painful, life-altering injuries. When other medical devices fail, they can kill you.Diabetes devices are one example of this type of device. These products, which include insulin pumps and blood glucose monitors, are the subject...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is requiring labeling changes for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). The October 15, 2020, announcement notified consumers and medical providers that taking NSAID around 20 weeks (and further) into a pregnancy could cause serious kidney damage in unborn...

We live in a world where things talk to things in order to make our lives easier, safe, more efficient, or more profitable. These things exchange information using the internet of things (IoT), which will connect 55.9 billion devices by 2025, according to IDC predictions. 

A ticket to a Novartis speaker program treated medical profession attendees to top-shelf alcohol, exquisite meals, and other “lavish goodies,” according to Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York.Furthermore, high-volume prescribers of the Novartis drugs were paid as...

As the coronavirus pandemic worsens, medical scientists and researchers are looking for anything that might prevent, or at least treat the disease. At least three major pharmaceutical companies are working overtime to develop vaccines. Meanwhile, findings reported in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases indicate that a drug first developed almost seven decades...

The nation is building a power wall—and you are invited to help build it.Today, March 18, 2020, is National Take Down Tobacco Day of Action. Around the world people from every walk of life will rally in a fight for the first tobacco-free generation.  The...

Any time a manufacturer learns that its medical device caused or contributed to a severe injury or death, the device manufacturer must report the event and the underlying problem to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). It’s the law—and it’s been the law since August 14, 2015.

Unlike many prescription medications, nutritional supplements are easily available to anyone and do not require a doctor's signature. While these are generally seen as “harmless,” many people do not realize supplements can contain the same ingredients as prescription drugs and pose their own dangers of side effects and/or interactions. According to a...

According to the Lown Institute, a Massachusetts-based think tank focused on health care policy, American seniors are overmedicated – and this trend could be sending millions of them to emergency rooms due to serious side effects and interactions.According to a press release published late last...

Most people in the U.S. have health coverage that includes prescription drugs, but that does not always mean they are able to afford the specific medication they need. Increasingly, people who are insured must make “tough choices” that are not faced by those in other advanced nations. According to a recent National...