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| 2:55PM 12/09/2010
On Wednesday, a Minneapolis jury ordered Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals to pay an 87-year-old man $1.7 million because its antibiotic Levaquin damaged his Achilles tendons. It was the first verdict from about 2,600 similar lawsuits filed so far.
| 5:05PM 7/13/2010
GlaxoSmithKline, whose diabetes drug Avandia is undergoing a safety review by the FDA, has agreed to pay about $460 million to resolve about 10,000 lawsuits from users of the drug, which can allegedly cause heart attacks and strokes.
| 1:30PM 7/02/2009
It's hard to keep up with the Obama-era Food and Drug Administration. Within the past two weeks alone, the FDA warned that Zicam cold remedy could damage the sense of smell, took aim at lowering the maximum daily dose of acetaminophen, and Wednesday ordered Pfizer Inc (PFE) and GlaxoSmithKline PLC...