- Jason Edward Ochs
- July 14, 2018
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was ordered by a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis to pay $4.14 billion in punitive damages and $550 million in compensatory damages to 22 women. The plaintiffs allege that their…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- June 12, 2018
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie was threatened by the FDA in December, 2017 for not properly handling complaints that its drugs had been the cause of several deaths that had not been reported to the agency. The FDA had conducted an inspection…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- June 12, 2018
Producers of intragastric balloons, which are used in non-invasive weight loss procedures, are coming under investigation for a total of twelve deaths attributed to their use. These balloons are placed in one’s stomach through an…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- June 5, 2018
San Diego-based Acadia Pharmaceuticals released their first and only drug, Nuplazid, to the market in June of 2016. Coined a “breakthrough therapy” at the time, the medication sought to relieve Parkinson’s disease patients of hallucinations and psychosis. Nuplazid was approved…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- May 19, 2018
The below article was posted in the Jackson Hole Daily News on Thursday, May 17, 2018 in regards to the May 14th Teton County Board of County Commissioners meeting that took place with the state’s attorney general and Jason Ochs…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- May 8, 2018
On May 8, 2018, Carbon County filed a 72-page complaint in US District Court naming more than fifteen opiate manufacturers and distributors across the country for alleged misrepresentation about the addictive properties of opiate medications. On August 10, 2017, President…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- May 8, 2018
If you have undergone heart surgery recently, chances are a Stockert 3T Heater/Cooler was used during their procedure. LivaNova PLC, the manufacturer of the 3T, controls roughly 60% of the market for such heating/cooling devices. During a cardiac surgery, the…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- April 15, 2018
Just within the past several months, new and staggering statistics have surfaced that really place into perspective the overall scope and devastation of the opioid epidemic that is currently ravaging just about each and every community in the country. To…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- March 27, 2018
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) distributed a warning letter to physicians concerning the risks of using Abbott Vascular’s Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) on March 18th, 2017. The BVS is a stent placed into one’s coronary artery…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- February 6, 2018
Recently reports have arisen linking the risk of vehicles with keyless ignition systems and carbon monoxide poisoning. Vehicles installed with the “on / off” button that automatically turns the vehicle on or off with a push of a button were…
