The Irish Medicines Board has announced the product recall of mobile patient lifts – UNO and Viking.  These lifts, which are manufactured by Hill-Rom (previously known as Liko) have been withdrawn from the Irish market.  The manufacturer has become aware of a problem with the lifts in that many of them on the Irish market […]

Blue shield of California will no longer pay for the use of the drug Avastin to treat breast cancer. This a sign that support for the widely debated and expensive treatment may be eroding among health care providers. Blue Shield who has three million members is the first large insurance company to end payments since […]

A number of patients in the US have lost some or all of their vision in their eyes after injections of Avastin. Avastin is an eye treatment drug that cost $50 a dose rather than more expensive doses such as Lucentis. The Department of Veteran Affairs in the US has temporarily halted use of Avastin […]

Over the last number of years, men have been reporting that the drug Propecia (Finasteride)  which is prescribed to treat mail pattern hair loss (MPHL) has caused permanent sexual side effects including erectile dysfunction.     To date there has not been any Propecia recall and men are continuing to be prescribed this hair loss treatment.  It […]