Last year there wasn’t a single fatal airline accident in the developed world. So why is the U.S. health care system still accidently killing hundreds of thousands? The answer is a lack of transparency.   By Marshall Allen (Marshall Allen is a health care reporter for the Las Vegas Sun.) Georgeanne Mumm’s surgeon emerged from [...]

John F. Libby, a partner in Manatt’s Los Angeles office and co-chair of the firm’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense practice group, spoke to Law360 for a report on the federal government’s plan to nearly triple the number of its Medicare fraud strike force units around the United States. Healthcare companies, the article says, [...]

The FDA cleared the DePuy ASR Acetabular Cup System for use in traditional hip replacement in 2005. The device was cleared through a process that did not require it to undergo clinical trials. Since the beginning of 2008, the FDA has received about 300 complaints regarding the DePuy ASR cup involving patients in the US. [...]