The FDA recently alerted healthcare providers and diabetes patients to another metformin recall. This time, it is Nostrum Laboratories that is recalling four lots of extended-release (ER) metformin (two lots of 500 mg tablets, and two of 750 mg tablets). The company found through testing…
For several months now, federal regulators have been monitoring type II diabetes medication metformin for potential contamination with N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a cancer-causing agent. It’s not only in the U.S. that this is happening. In May 2020, media reports indicated that South Korea had banned the…
Around the country, state legislatures are voting to change sexual assault statute of limitations, which are the time limits someone has to report crimes to the police, or file a civil lawsuit. Survivors of child sexual assault are especially prejudiced by statute of limitation laws,…
I’ve been saying it for years, it’s just not safe to have drivers pulling double duty. Across the City, professional bus drivers are not only navigating the dangerous streets of San Francisco, but also narrating the journey and pointing out the sights as they go. This distracting practice is not only dangerous for the bus passengers,…
Yesterday I wrote about the current state of the American health care system and the dangerous effects of its volume-based capitation method of compensating providers. Today I wanted to discuss the...
At times, it seems like the American health care industry is irreparably broken. The cost of care is skyrocketing, and access to treatment is becoming more and more difficult. At every turn, the...
People may joke that it happens and some may suspect that it really does, but for one New York woman, being the victim of unnecessary surgeries may be her reality. Forty two year old Kristy...
