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Sort by date 573 pages found matching <script>alert('What_Security?')</script>- Despite Suicide Risk, Feds Suggest Chantix Still the Best Way to Quit
Jul-18-08 Indianapolis, IN As one of the first Chantix lawsuits against Pfizer becomes official this week, the entire Chantix issue just gets weirder: on one hand the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) highlights the risk of suicide in the Chantix Medication Guide. On the other, government health officials reportedly continue to urge smokers to use Chantix as... - Botox: Will Jekyll, or Hyde Come Calling on You?
Jun-29-08 Washington, DC Botox may have a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality depending on how it is used, but deep down at the end of the day, it's still the monster that claims botulism as its middle name—a product that has caused death and injury to scores of people. Botox, after all is botulinum toxin, which lies at the basis of botulism. Once you have botulism... - Chantix Grounded by Federal Aviation Administration
May-22-08 Washington, DC It still might be okay for YOU to use the anti-smoking drug Chantix in spite of all the warnings over suicidal thoughts and potential psychosis, but as of Wednesday pilots and air traffic controllers are no longer allowed to use the drug. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just banned the use of Chantix for pilots and ai... - Tainted Heparin Investigation Continues, Lawsuits Keep Coming…
May-15-08 Philadelphia, PA: As the tainted heparin issue continues to reverberate around the globe, lawsuits continue to mount as those harmed by contaminated heparin, or the families of those who have died, seek compensation in the face of a complex and convoluted environment. In a word, whom do you blame? The manufacturer, for sourcing the tainted heparin fro... - Duragesic Pain Patch: Warning Signs Ignored
May-9-08 Houston, TX The recent lawsuits against the maker of the Duragesic Pain Patch are not the first to be filed. In fact, in 2006, the daughter of a woman who died while wearing a Duragesic patch won her lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson's Alza Corp, the company that manufactures the patch. Unfortunately, the companies involved in manufacturing Duragesic pat... - Death Toll from Recalled Chinese Heparin Continues to Rise
Apr-28-08 Philadelphia, PA: The family of a Missouri man who died after suffering adverse reactions to contaminated Chinese Heparin is suing Tyco Healthcare, claiming that the company waited too long announce a recall of the drug. And the death toll due to tainted Heparin continues to rise, because this case has not been accounted for by the U.S. Food and Drug A... - Deaths of Two People in Truck Accident Could Have Been Avoided
Apr-23-08 Woodford, VT Early afternoon on April 16th, a fatal truck accident occurred on Route 9, killing a 29-year-old man and a 31-year-old man, both residents of Readsboro. They were killed when their pick-up truck got caught between a guardrail and a Readsboro. The 42-year-old man who was driving the tractor-trailer could be facing as much as 15 years in priso... - Understanding What's Behind Medication Errors
Apr-21-08 Horsham, PA: Michael Cohen is regularly called one of the top "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare". Not surprising, given the scope and impact of his brainchild, the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices . The ISMP's sole focus is preventing medication errors and to do so, they form a symbiotic relationship with practitioners, health car... - Wichita Resident Killed by Semi
Apr-17-08 Wichita, KA: It was a Tuesday morning, around 8:30 a.m.. Brad Begley was waiting outside an office situated along U.S. Interstate highway 54, between Wichita and Augusta. Suddenly, the noise of the early morning commuter rush was broken by the sound of a truck horn blaring. It forewarned of a fatal truck accident that would occur just minutes later. T... - Asbestos Mesothelioma: Six Members of One Family Now Dead
Mar-30-08 Winnipeg, MB A Canadian First Nations family that has incredibly lost five of its members to asbestos poisoning, has now lost a sixth. Rita Swain died earlier this week from mesothelioma, the Canadian Press reported. She was diagnosed three years ago with the asbestos-related disease, which affected the lining of her stomach. Raven ThunderSky herself... - Botox: Evidence Mounts that Toxin Migration is Possible
Mar-23-08 Washington, DC Try to forget that the needle about to inject a substance in your brow is a derivative of a deadly bacterium.Try not to think about the fact that the same Botox used to paralyze the muscles that cause your crow's feet and furrowed brow, has also been known to migrate away from the injection area and can have the same numbing effect on musc... - Lucky to be off Duragesic Pain Patch
Mar-20-08 Tucson, AZ After five years of suffering mental and physical side effects from chronic back pain medication, Frank begged his doctor to prescribe a non-narcotic painkiller. The adhesive Duragesic pain patch sounded ideal but didn't take long for his situation to worsen. "At first I thought it was terrific," says Frank. "Anything was better than the shiv... - Wind Shear Detection Improving but not Foolproof
Mar-12-08 Hamburg, DE Passengers aboard a Lufthansa flight on March 1st narrowly escaped a plane crash when stormy winds up to 155 mph rocked their aircraft as it attempted to land in Hamburg, Germany. Gut-dropping images caught on amateur video of its runway approach, show the left wing of the Airbus A320 grazing the runway; the aircraft teeters, then lifts o... - Defective Products vs. The Supreme Court. They Fight, You Lose
Feb-23-08 Peachtree City, GA On February 21st the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in concert with Rinnai America Corp, announced a voluntary product safety recall involving the defective product Rinnai EnergySaver Direct-Vent Wall Furnace, due to a potential carbon monoxide hazard. According to the alert a gasket in the furnace, fuelled by either natural... - Botox: Lose the Wrinkles, Lose Your Life?
Feb-22-08 Washington, DC Got a Botox shot lately, to mitigate those wrinkles? Here's the thing—Botox could actually provide one little wrinkle of its own: You could die from it . Earlier this month the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was petitioned by the advocacy group Public Citizen to release warnings about Botox, a product that is more generall... - Botox Delivers Bad Results for Some Users
Feb-20-08 Los Angeles, CA: Botox injections used for the aesthetic purpose of eliminating lines and wrinkles are becoming tied to some sober results from reactions. Some reactions have been serious enough to cause death in users. The announcement was allegedly made by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The reactions have born a striking resemblance to thos... - Trasylol: A Thousand Deaths a Month
Feb-18-08 Long Island, NY You have seen his name before, in various articles about Trasylol , the now-vilified drug that was removed from the active market by Bayer AG on November 5th of last year following a two-year hailstorm of salacious revelations. Joe Randone, a 52-year-old sales rep from Long Island New York. Suffering from a heart murmur since he wa... - Researcher: Too Many Deaths Caused by Trasylol
Feb-16-08 Rockville, MD At least one critic of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the organization acted too slowly when it learned of the dangers of Trasylol. According to Dr. Dennis Mangano, approximately 22,000 lives could have been saved if the FDA had removed Trasylol from the market when it received evidence that the drug was linked to thousand... - Fosamax: Low-Cost Generics Expand the Risk
Feb-13-08 Leavenworth, KS: The troubles over Fosamax are bound to intensify, with the approval of a new, generic form of the drug that is alleged to cause Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), a debilitating disease of the jawbone . With its patent for alendronate having expired, just days ago the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the licensing of the f... - Chantix: Beefed-up Warnings, Increasing Concern
Feb-9-08 Washington, DC In a move that is hardly a surprise for anyone conversant with Chantix , the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marked the beginning of February with the stark announcement that a link between serious psychiatric problems , and Pfizer's hitherto most promising performer is "increasingly likely." This comes a couple of weeks after Pfi...