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When you take a medication, you trust in the fact that is going to make you feel better and healthier. But what happens when that medication is causing even more problems? For patients who take bisphosphonates, this can cause serious medical issues including fractures. Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs used to prevent the loss [...]

A very common and sensitive problem men have is with male pattern baldness. It is a medical condition in which many men share. One prescription drug, Propecia, was designed to help treat male pattern baldness and is very popular. However, its side effects are not. In many men the drug causes sexual side effects. Men [...]

by: Michael Werner, Esq. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) plans to host an expert advisory panel on June 27th and 28th to address mounting concerns regarding the efficacy and safety of metal-on-metal (“MoM”) hip replacement systems. The FDA announced the need for the advisory panel in March following reports of increased failure and [...]

For several years, I ended my emails with a quote from President Abraham Lincoln: “Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.” I hoped that Lincoln’s words would inspire elected officials to provide health benefits to 9/11 first responders. Despite the January 2011 passage of the Zadroga Act, groundbreaking legislation for [...]

by: Stephanie Herschaft, Esq. Thousands of pages of Pfizer’s internal documents and depositions were recently unsealed by a federal judge in a long-running securities fraud case against Pfizer. These documents provide a colorful picture of the choice made by Pfizer to cover up its doubts about Celebrex, a drug which can cause side effects such [...]