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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Wednesday that his office has filed charges against opioid manufacturers Purdue Pharma, L.P., Rhodes Pharmaceuticals and related entities. The charges allege that the companies engaged in a scheme to market prescription opioids...

On Friday, May 17, a Connecticut jury awarded $542K over the alleged bleeding risk caused by blood thinner Pradaxa. According to the trial, the lawsuit was filed in May 2016 alleging that the plaintiff, Gino Roberto, had a 40-year history of...

On November 22, 2016, a coalition including FAN, Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Moms Against Fluoridation and several individual mothers, filed a petition calling on the...

BILLION WITH A B! A jury in Oakland, California, has awarded a couple $2 billion in punitive damages after concluding that sustained exposure to Monsanto Co.’s popular Roundup weed killer led to their cancer diagnoses. The couple will receive an...

The jury in Bayer AG’s third Roundup weedkiller trial was urged by a plaintiffs’ lawyer to consider socking the company with $1 billion in damages as punishment for covering up the health risks of the herbicide for decades. The aggressive...