GE and Muzzled Radiologist End UK Libel Case

by Jeff Gerth
ProPublica, Feb. 18, 2010, 3:29 p.m.

GE Healthcare and a Danish radiologist have settled a British libel suit in which GE claimed that the radiologist had made damaging statements about GE's MRI imaging drug Omniscan.

GE Suit Hushes Scientist Critical of Omniscan

by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica, and Jon Ungoed-Thomas, The Sunday Times Dec. 19, 2009, 5 p.m.

A case over GE's Omniscan MRI drug fuels a debate over British libel law.

FDA Advised to Tighten Restrictions on GE and Covidien MRI Drugs

by Jeff Gerth
ProPublica, Dec. 9, 2009, 4:35 p.m.

An FDA advisory panel recommends effectively banning the use of GE’s Omniscan and Covidien’s Optimark in patients with severe kidney disease.

Feds May Tighten Rules on Omniscan, a GE MRI Drug

by Jeff Gerth
ProPublica, Dec. 2, 2009, 6:55 p.m.

An FDA review says MRI imaging drugs may be even riskier for kidney patients than it believed previously.