A California jury recently awarded an individual the largest award over the connection between talcum powder-based products and cancer. The jury, which was based in Los Angeles, awarded Eva Echeverria $417 million because she developed ovarian cancer after decades of using Baby Powder. Thousands of others have come forward against Johnson & Johnson and other […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued an alert to physicians, surgeons, and the public to warn about recent deaths associated with a surgical treatment for obesity. A handful of deaths of patients who had recently undergone surgery to have the intragastric balloon implanted have been reported since 2016. The FDA is recommending […]