Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs
By Chelsea Conaboy on August 21, 2018
Proposal to rewrite pollution rules for coal-fired power plants would increase greenhouse gas emissions and harm public health, according to the EPA’s own analysis.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Environmental Safety and Health, EPA, Firearms, Government accountability, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin and Stuart Silverstein on July 12, 2018
The legal assault on Johnson & Johnson and its signature baby powder reached new heights today, when a state court jury in Missouri found the company responsible for the ovarian cancers of 22 women, and ordered the drug and consumer products giant to pay $4.69 billion in compensatory and punitive damages to the cancer victims…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Asbestos, Environmental Safety and Health, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Chelsea Conaboy on July 3, 2018
The Ocean State v. Big Oil: Rhode Island, which has more than 400 miles of coastline, has become the first state in the country to sue oil companies for the cost of protecting itself from rising seas. More than a dozen cities and counties in four other states have filed similar lawsuits that aim to hold…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Firearms, Off-Road Vehicles, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Vaccine Safety, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin and Stuart Silverstein on June 26, 2018
Outlawed emissions: A mysterious increase in emissions of a banned industrial gas that destroys the atmosphere’s protective ozone layer has been traced to a province in China where manufacturers have kept using it to make foam insulation. According to The New York Times, the spike in emissions of CFC-11 is undermining the success of the…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Consumer Protection, Firearms, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage violations, Workplace |
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 19, 2018
Bad grades? What bad grades?: Nearly half of all Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes received the agency’s lowest possible quality ratings as of December. But until very recently that information was hidden from families looking for a home for their loved ones, an investigation by The Boston Globe and USA Today found. The VA…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Medical Errors, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 5, 2018
It’s hard to know where to begin with this story about how Insys executives — several under federal indictment — allegedly lured doctors willing to risk their patients’ lives for a trip to a strip club. The allegations are in whistleblower complaints filed by former sales reps and two people who worked for a company that processed insurance claims.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Firearms, OSHA, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 29, 2018
CEOs living large – really, really large: The New York Times has published an accounting of the highest paid CEOs at American companies in 2017 and how their compensation compares to median pay for their workers. It’s painful to read. A Walmart employee would have to work more than 1,000 years at the company’s median salary…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, wages, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin on May 24, 2018
Editor's note: See update at bottom of story.
For the second time in less than two months, Johnson & Johnson has suffered a big courtroom loss in a case that blamed a rare asbestos-related cancer on long-term use of contaminated baby powder. A state court jury in Southern California ordered the company to pay $4 million in punitive damages to mesothelioma victim Joanne Anderson and her husband, bringing the total verdict to about $25.7 million.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 22, 2018
About 4.6 million children in the United States live in homes where guns are kept unlocked and loaded, as more people come to believe – despite scientific evidence to the contrary – that a home with a gun is a safer home, according to a new analysis …
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 15, 2018
Drugmakers, investors buoyed by Trump speech: Even as President Trump, during a much anticipated speech, promised to “derail the gravy train” in health care, Big Pharma stock prices were rising. Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post writes that Trump’s 44-page blueprint, dubbed “American Patients First,” was long on policy ideas and light on how to…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Firearms, food safety, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, wage theft |
