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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered two manufacturers to immediately stop selling a type of surgical mesh used to repair pelvic collapse in women.
The order comes on the heels …
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The Los Angeles Times recently won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for its series of stories on a former gynecologist at the University of Southern California (USC) accused of sexually …
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While Bayer – the manufacturer of Roundup weed killer – has stated publicly that it has no intention of settling thousands of lawsuits charging that its product causes cancer, the company is now …
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Pope Francis has issued a new decree which requires Vatican City officials or diplomats around the world to immediately report allegations of sexual abuse by priests or others, or face possible jail …
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In the summer of 2018, Krystal Kim, a 53-year-old African-American woman, was one of the plaintiffs in a successful lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J). The jury in that …
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When Mary (name changed for confidentiality) moved into a nursing home following a stroke, she didn’t know that two of her fellow residents were registered sex offenders. That’s because most states …
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More than 6,000 Americans die from asbestos-related lung cancer every year.
Medical researchers first made the connection between asbestos exposure and lung cancer in 1935. Since then, study …
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In New York, the family of a merchant marine who died of malignant mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos has won the right to sue Chevron.
In New Jersey, a man suffering malignant …
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A San Francisco jury has ruled that Roundup, the world’s most widely used weed killer, was likely responsible for causing 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman’s cancer.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in …
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Every year, doctors across the U.S. perform more than a million hernia repair surgeries. And since the 1990s, the use of a surgical mesh to strengthen a repair and prevent the hernia from recurring …
