Indianapolis-based CountryMark Cooperative is suing its investment adviser, Morgan Keegan & Co., for directing the farmer-owned co-op toward a $10 million investment in mortgage-backed securities, including subprime.
A recent story about how an insurance company refused to pay for a procedure that could have saved a young girl's life is very sad.
Nearly a third of antidepressant drug studies are never published in the medical literature, and nearly all of those happen to show that the drug being tested failed to work.
According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide among women.
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a consumer advocacy group, reports that property and casualty insurers booked near-record profits last year, continuing a trend that has cost the average American household about $870 over the last four years in unnecessarily high premiums.
You work hard to protect your credit card information, but did you know your receipts might carry the risk of your credit card being swiped?
As was reported previously, on November 9, 2007, Merck agreed to pay $4.85 billion dollars to settle the claims of persons who suffered a heart attack or stroke while taking the pain reliever, Vioxx.
A patient affected by Medtronic's 2007 recall of defibrillator leads is suing the company, claiming unnecessary shocks led to post-traumatic stress syndrome that required psychiatric treatment.
As our population ages, the number of citizens with medical implants will increase. Medical implants are being used in almost every organ of the human body.
Federal officials warned Friday that a popular antismoking drug may be linked to suicides in some patients. The drug, called Chantix, has been used by more than 5 million patients as a smoking cessation aid, according to manufacturer Pfizer Inc. The drug will now carry new labels warning doctors and consumers of reports of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
