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Popular Hernia Mesh Product Incompatible With Human Tissue
Mike Papantonio - September 18, 2018
Failing to Reach a Settlement Abilify Bellwether Cases Head to Trial
KJ McElrath - September 13, 2018
Popular Hernia Mesh Product Incompatible With Human Tissue
A new lawsuit claims that one of the most profitable forms of hernia mesh is 100% incompatible with human tissue, causing irreparable harm to consumers. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this issue. Transcript: Mike Papantonio: The stories we...
Failing to Reach a Settlement Abilify Bellwether Cases Head to Trial
Since the passing of a recent deadline to reach a global settlement in nearly 1,700 Abilify lawsuits (up from the 22 cases originally consolidated in 2016), counsel for defendants Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and Bristol-Meyer Squibb (BSM) and those for the plaintiffs have...
Toxic MRI Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent Causing Debilitating Diseases In Patients
Each year in the United States, more than 10% of the population will undergo an MRI scan, and a good portion of those will include the use of a contrast agent that contains the element gadolinium. This element can be highly toxic to human beings, and it has now been...
Judge Upholds $4.6 Billion Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Over Talcum Powder Cancer
A trial judge in Missouri this week upheld a massive multi-billion dollar verdict against Johnson & Johnson for hiding the dangers of their talcum powders that have been linked to cancer. 22 women joined a lawsuit together against the company where they received the...
Popular Hernia Mesh Product Incompatible With Human Tissue
Mike Papantonio - September 18, 2018
Failing to Reach a Settlement Abilify Bellwether Cases Head to Trial
KJ McElrath - September 13, 2018
Toxic MRI Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent Causing Debilitating Diseases In Patients
Farron Cousins - August 25, 2018
Judge Upholds $4.6 Billion Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson Over Talcum Powder Cancer
Farron Cousins - August 23, 2018
If Harry Truman Had His Way With Medicare For All Charlene Dill and Countless Others Would Still Be Alive
Medicare for all isn't a new idea, it was proposed by Harry Truman over a half century ago. Would Charlene Dill and the countless Americans like her have been able to experience those very American rights, life, liberty and the American Dream if they had access to...
Bayer Paid Doctors To Push Their Birth Control Device Essure
America’s Lawyer Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins talk about how Bayer paid doctors millions to utilize the questionable birth control device Essure. Transcript: Mike Papantonio: The next story that I thought was remarkable was the Bayer story. Okay, you got a...
RJ Eskow's Radical Take On Big Pharma
The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow discusses why Big Pharma, in its present form, should be dismantled and taken over by the...
The US For-Profit Healthcare System Ranks DEAD LAST In Performance
According to a new report, the United States’ healthcare system ranks last among those of other industrialized nations in terms of care and performance. The big difference between the US and the other countries studied is the fact that the US has no form of universal...
This Bill Would Help Us Afford Prescription Drugs
RJ Eskow is joined by Steven Knievel, an advocate for Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program, to discuss how Big Pharma is overcharging for prescription drugs and a new bill that could make medications more...
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Drugging Immigrant Children
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop dosing immigrant children held in Trump’s detention camps with psychotropic drugs. The practice has been carried out without parental consent and without the children knowing exactly what is happening, and...
Justice For Benicar Victims: Drugmaker Daiichi-Sankyo Agrees to $330 Million Settlement
This week, Tokyo-based pharmaceutical firm Daiichi-Sankyo Ltd. announced that it will pay out $300 million to settle approximately 2,300 cases filed by plaintiffs who allege that its olmesartan blood pressure medications were responsible for their intestinal injuries....
Judge in Benicar Cases: Not Enough Evidence of Causation (Yet)
Last week, the Hon. Judge Robert Kugler denied a motion by Benicar plaintiffs for partial summary judgment against drugmaker Daiichi-Sankyo on the matter of causation. Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that testimony from Daiichi, in addition from information gleaned...
Popular Hernia Mesh Product Incompatible With Human Tissue
Mike Papantonio - September 18, 2018
Popular Hernia Mesh Product Incompatible With Human Tissue
Mike Papantonio - September 18, 2018
Justice For Benicar Victims: Drugmaker Daiichi-Sankyo Agrees to $330 Million Settlement
This week, Tokyo-based pharmaceutical firm Daiichi-Sankyo Ltd. announced that it will pay out $300 million to settle approximately 2,300 cases filed by plaintiffs who allege that its olmesartan blood pressure medications were responsible for their intestinal injuries....
Judge in Benicar Cases: Not Enough Evidence of Causation (Yet)
Last week, the Hon. Judge Robert Kugler denied a motion by Benicar plaintiffs for partial summary judgment against drugmaker Daiichi-Sankyo on the matter of causation. Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that testimony from Daiichi, in addition from information gleaned...
If Harry Truman Had His Way With Medicare For All Charlene Dill and Countless Others Would Still Be Alive
Medicare for all isn't a new idea, it was proposed by Harry Truman over a half century ago. Would Charlene Dill and the countless Americans like her have been able to experience those very American rights, life, liberty and the American Dream if they had access to...
Bayer Paid Doctors To Push Their Birth Control Device Essure
America’s Lawyer Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins talk about how Bayer paid doctors millions to utilize the questionable birth control device Essure. Transcript: Mike Papantonio: The next story that I thought was remarkable was the Bayer story. Okay, you got a...
RJ Eskow's Radical Take On Big Pharma
The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow discusses why Big Pharma, in its present form, should be dismantled and taken over by the...
The US For-Profit Healthcare System Ranks DEAD LAST In Performance
According to a new report, the United States’ healthcare system ranks last among those of other industrialized nations in terms of care and performance. The big difference between the US and the other countries studied is the fact that the US has no form of universal...
This Bill Would Help Us Afford Prescription Drugs
RJ Eskow is joined by Steven Knievel, an advocate for Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program, to discuss how Big Pharma is overcharging for prescription drugs and a new bill that could make medications more...
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Drugging Immigrant Children
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop dosing immigrant children held in Trump’s detention camps with psychotropic drugs. The practice has been carried out without parental consent and without the children knowing exactly what is happening, and...
Medicare For All Won’t Destroy America – But It’ll Hurt Corporate Profits
The growing chorus of voices telling us that the “evils” of socialism are coming to America as more and more candidates are pushing for medicare for all-styled medical coverage for American citizens is absurd. We’re being told that such a plan could destroy the...
Big Pharma Jumps In To Stop Trump From Lowering Prescription Drug Prices
Donald Trump made a promise during the campaign that he would do something about rising prescription drug prices, and just as his administration was preparing to finally look at the issue, some of the largest drug companies sent their front groups and lobbying teams...
The Power of Music and Alzheimer’s Disease: Musical Memories Unaffected by Dementia
Some senses are more evocative than others. Scent is one of them. A whiff of a certain perfume, flower or even a favorite food cooking can transport us back in time almost instantly (this was actually the basis of the 1984 novel Jitterbug Perfume). Another is sound,...
Immigrant Children In Federal Detention Centers Are Forced To Take Neuroleptic Drugs
At the end of June, the Washington Post reported that a 12-year-old boy caught while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border was forcibly medicated with neuroleptic drugs while being detained. The boy was attempting to join his family, who had entered the country...