The drug, Tysabri, was withdrawn a year ago after it was found to cause a lethal brain disease. An FDA advisory panel will allow patients and doctors to weigh the risk of taking it.
If passed, a bill in Louisiana will allow consumers up to two years to sue insurance providers following a disaster declared by the governor. This would extend the old statute of limitations by one year.
The study details an increase in low birth weight, seizures, and fetal death in pregnant women taking antidepressants such as Zoloft, Prozac, and Paxil.
Officials from the island of Hawaii have been collecting hair, nail, and urine samples from residents in order to determine the affect of arsenic used in sugar plantations.
Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. has been charged with violating the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The company, which makes personal care and nutritional products, is alledged to have issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business and financial results.
Last Friday, a doctor from Keithville, La. pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally selling prescription drugs via the Internet.
Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged a day care worker after a 6-month-old boy suffered severe brain damage while under her care in mid-February.
According to a recent press release, shareholders of Biovail Corporation have filed a class action lawsuit against a variety of defendents.
Both Albany, New York resident Anita Walker and her dog were viciously attacked and injured by a neighbor's pit bull when the dog got into Walker's backyard.
Last month, former Sioux Falls, South Dakota insurance agent Ryan Wingler was sent to prison for scamming an estimated $350,000 from elderly clients. A new victim of the scam has recently stepped forward.
U.S. stocks fell on Thursday amid disappointing March retail sales, high crude oil prices, and another legal setback for drug giant Merck & Co.
The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and two San Francisco Catholic citizens, is in reaction to a gay-sympathetic resolution that the city's board of supervisors unanimously passed on March 21.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of two New York men who have been charged with securities fraud.
While jurors where deliberating for a second day in the benzene exposure case brought by John Ringstaff against Crown Chemical Company, the two parties settled.
In a move that some defense lawyer's deem "chancy," former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling will testify to try and refute prosecution evidence that he and former Chairman Kenneth Lay defrauded investors.
The U.S. Securities regulators have charged six individuals including three former Refco Securities brokers in an illegal scheme that "clobbered" the shares of a King of Prussia based software company named Sedona Corp.
Hoping to get enough signatures to put their initiative on the November general election ballot, the North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative (NDSPI) suggests that joint physical custody, or shared parenting, is a better option for the children of broken homes.
In another devastating blow to Merck, a New Jersey jury has determined that the company did not effectively warn patients of the dangers of the drug Vioxx, which resulted in the heart attack of John McDarby.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- A stuntman who sustained severe burns on over 60 percent of his body while filming for "Mission Impossible 3" is suing Cruise/Wagner and Paramount Pictures for unspecified damages.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. -- Norberto Reyes-Serra, 45, a paratrooper who lost his jump status in the U.S. Army after a brutal attack rendered him brain injured, has won $2.3 million in a lawsuit against his assailant.
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