Study Shows Damaged Cartilage Linked to Shoulder Pain Pump

Patients who undergo shoulder arthroscopy generally think they will feel much better following the procedure, but if they use a shoulder pain pump to help regulate their pain, they may wind up feeling much, much worse in the long term.

Women Claim Ignorance on Drug Risks

When Pamela Forrester went to her doctor in 1994 complaining of menopausal symptoms, hot flashes and trouble sleeping, she didn't think twice when he told her to start taking hormone replacement drugs, she testified Monday.

Congress Acts to Improve Drug Safety

Congress overhauled the government's drug-safety system yesterday, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new powers in a bid to better protect patients from harm caused by drugs such as the painkiller Vioxx.

Avandia in Perspective

People with diabetes face hazards aplenty, among them twice the normal risk of heart disease and stroke and up to four times the chance of a fatal heart-related event.

J&J Faces Thousands of Ortho Lawsuits

The numbers keep adding up for the Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Not sales those are down sharply but the docket of product liability cases filed against Johnson & Johnson.

Glaxo's Avandia Increases Bone-Fracture Risk

GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia diabetes pill increases the risk of bone fractures in diabetic women who take it, a company-funded study found.

Physicians and Experts Say Pull Avandia from Market

GSK's Avandia should be pulled from the market in light of recent studies, a number of physicians and industry experts have argued. However, others believe that there is not yet sufficient data to warrant such a conclusion.

Warning This Medicine May Make you Ill

Bob Bowen had been diabetic for 18 years when his doctor switched him to a newly licensed drug called Avandia. The effect was devastating.

Doctor Takes Stand in Lawsuit Against Wyeth

A doctor for one of the three women suing pharmaceutical giant Wyeth said a report issued a decade after he began prescribing the hormone-replacement drugs changed his mind about how he would recommend they be used.

J&J Executive told Company Ortho Evra Risk Downplayed

Johnson & Johnson improperly claimed its Ortho Evra birth-control patch posed a low safety risk to women, a product-safety executive told Chief Executive Officer William Weldon in a 2005 letter, court records show.