In 2007 Senator Pat Roberts and Senator Edward Kennedy attempted to pass legislation to expand the power of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate compounding pharmacies. Compounding pharmacies where medications are mixed or altered fell into a regulatory gap where it wasn’t really clear whether the FDA or…
According to a recent poll, about a third of Massachusetts residents feel that bicyclists, pedestrians and drivers interact with one another safely. The Metro West Daily News reports that close to 50 percent of these people said that more bike lanes would be more effective in helping to keep these…
A photojournalist with Boston University was riding his bicycle along Comm Avenue when a tractor-trailer swung wide. The bicyclist collided with the trailer and was killed. This is the University’s second student to die in a bicycle accident in a month, according to Wicked Local. A local columnist is no…
We’ve been talking a lot about bicycle safety, after all it is National Bike Safety Month. But we do understand that accidents happen. Do you know what to do when an accident is unavoidable? Our Boston bicycle accident attorneys are here with tips from Bicycling.com to help to better your…
The entire month of May has been dubbed National Bike Safety Month, according to MassBike. Massachusetts takes it one step further though and celebrates its own Bay State Bike Week. Bay State Bike Week is an annual celebration of human-powered, two-wheeled transportation. It is fitting that Massachusetts would be the…
Thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits have been filed by women across the country who are suffering from complications as a result of transvaginal mesh products. With the first transvaginal mesh trial resulting in a verdict of $11 million awarded to a transvaginal mesh plaintiff, many manufacturers are nervous about the…
For patients with kidneys that do not function properly, dialysis is a way of life. Dialysis is a process used to clean the blood in cases where the kidneys are not able to filter out waste. While dialysis can allow a person to live with failing kidneys for a long…
Our Boston hip replacement injury attorneys know that there are thousands of lawsuits pending by patients who had metal-on-metal hip replacement devices implanted. These lawsuits are against many different manufacturers, but DePuy Orthopaedics is one of the major companies that is being sued for their hip replacement systems. DePuy Orthopaedics…
As our Boston transvaginal mesh attorneys know, many hospitals and health professionals throughout the country have taken action to ban transvaginal mesh (TVM) products in light of the serious dangers presented by these medical devices. The FDA has also mandated that manufacturers conduct further studies to determine the danger of…
A new report published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine indicates that doctors in the U.S. are far too frequently prescribing drug that are potentially harmful to geriatric patients. Our Boston nursing home negligence attorneys understand that the problem may be especially pronounced in nursing home facilities. The study,…