Actos is the brand name of the drug pioglitazone, used to treat type 2 diabetes, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just released a new warning that it could cause bladder cancer. This is not the first time the FDA has made this warning about pioglitazone, but the latest report comes as […]

Popular heartburn drugs, Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, and Protonix have been found to significantly increase the risk of a patient having a stroke, according to a new study reported at November’s American Heart Association Meeting. All of these drugs belong to the class of drugs called proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, and are used to treat […]

Smith & Nephew, a medical device manufacturer based in the United Kingdom, announced on November 15th, that it would be recalling all of its modular neck hip prostheses due to reports of adverse events. The company issued the recall for all lots of this component, which is used in its Modular REDAPT and Modular SMF […]