New analyses from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) confirm that combination hormone therapy increases the risk of heart disease in healthy postmenopausal women.

Jesse Polansky, a former director of outcomes management at Pfizer (PFE) from 2001 until 2003, has re-filed his whistleblower lawsuit regarding the cholesterol drug Lipitor, the best-selling prescription substance in the world and the backbone of the company.

When the first cases popped up in orthopedic journals, they read like medical mysteries. Surgeons around the country reported that several active young patients had suddenly developed chondrolysis, a relatively rare ailment in which joint cartilage dies, leaving bone to grind on bone.

In New Jersey, 36 cancer patients at a veterans hospital in East Orange were overradiated — and 20 more received substandard treatment — by a medical team that lacked experience in using a machine that generated high-powered beams of radiation. The mistakes, which have not been publicly reported, continued for months because the hospital had no system in place to catch the errors.

Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is recalling 1.5 million strollers after reports of children’s fingertips getting caught in the products’ hinges, resulting in cuts and amputations, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

WASHINGTON — Hormone replacement therapy can raise the risk of an uncommon type of breast cancer fourfold after just three years, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

They found women who took combined estrogen/progestin hormone-replacement therapy for three years or more had four times the usual risk of lobular breast cancer.

Their study, published in the January issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, is one of dozens trying to paint a clearer picture of what dangers might come from taking HRT to treat menopause symptoms.

Updated Raptiva warnings to include risk of of life-threatening infections including bacterial sepsis, viral meningitis, invasive fungal disease and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). 

Washington—In a stealth effort coordinated at the highest levels of the Bush administration, multiple federal agencies were repeatedly ordered to usurp state law and undermine consumer protections, according to documents obtained through repeated FOIA requests by the American Association for Justice (AAJ).  The documents released today detail how helping corporations escape accountability for dangerous products has been the administration’s top priority.

Several interested parties have filed "friend of the court" briefs on the issue of preemption currently before the U.S. Supreme Court in Levine v. Wyeth.