Conn Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and state health officials suspended the licenses of Dr. Teresita Mascardo, d/b/a Connecticut Plastic Surgery Center, LLC of Ridgefield in an emergency action after discovering horrific office conditions.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today he will seek legislation requiring greater disclosure of medical mistakes at hospitals, as well as providing regulators beefed up investigative resources and new authority to impose civil penalties.
Joining Blumenthal in his call for a major strengthening of the state hospital medical mistakes reporting law was Connecticut Center for Patient Safety Executive Director Jean Rexford.
We are thrilled to announce that Cheryl Jones-Reardon, CEO of The Mindful Path, LLC, is joining our Ctwatchdog.com team as a regular blogger. Cheryl lives in central Connecticut, holds a Master’s degree in Exercise Science…
This brilliant article in the New York Times shows why we need a government that will watch over corporations that care more about dollars than people’s health. Why we need journalists to report such things…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced a landmark $25.1 million agreement with drug maker Eli Lilly and Company for allegedly marketing its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses, and concealing the drug’s serious side effects, for more than a decade.
Blumenthal sued Eli Lilly last year for corrupting physicians, pharmacies and administrators at nursing homes and youth detention centers as part of a massive illegal marketing campaign to promote Zyprexa for unapproved off-label uses, including for the treatment of children.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that Sleepy’s has failed to provide him answers to all his critical questions regarding the giant mattress retailer’s business practices. Blumenthal, who in July began an investigation into…
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. will pay a record $2.3 billion fine for how it marketed Bextra and other drugs, Reuters and the Associated Press reported this morning. The agreement, which is still under seal, is to…
Embarrassed by public disclosure that Courant management – for the first time in its history – is holding up a story of a state investigation into one of its prime advertisers, the nation’s oldest newspaper…
After getting egg all over their faces, the management of The Courant scrambled Monday to get something in the paper about Sleepy’s so they could prove they weren’t protecting one of their biggest advertisers. In…