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In June of 2019, the pharmacy Valisure tested the popular heartburn drug Zantac (ranitidine) and detected high levels of a cancer-causing agent called N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA. Since the study was released, thousands of consumers have been concerned that they could…

More than 95,000 people filed sex abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America. Now the organization must reach a settlement in its ongoing bankruptcy case in these cases by next summer or risk being unable to operate. The total…

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, pled guilty in November of 2020 to federal criminal charges related to the company’s role in the opioid crisis. The company has also agreed to pay an $8 billion settlement. Unfortunately, the guilty pleas…

While major drug recalls are often big news, drug recalls happen more often than you may think. A drug recall is a voluntary action taken by a drug company at any time to remove a defective drug product from the…

Cities across the country are dealing with the effects of “forever chemicals” in their air and water. A small city in upstate New York, Cohoes, learned that more than two million pounds of material containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (collectively known…

In a giant setback to agribusiness giant Bayer, a court overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of its latest weed-killing spray. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that, in 2018, the EPA understated the risks of three…

In September of 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that potentially harmful levels of a cancer-causing agent had been found in products containing ranitidine. These products included heartburn medication Zantac. The long-term use of Zantac had been primarily…