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Suboxone + Kratom = Adding Insult to Injury

Suboxone + Kratom = Adding Insult to Injury January 29, 2025. By Anne Wallace.
San Francisco, CA Kratom is a dangerous drug, whose ingredients may be highly addictive at larger doses. Kratom products may not be marketed in the U.S. as prescription or over-the-counter drugs. Instead, they exist in the murky, unregulated world of herbal supplements. According to a kratom researcher at the University of Florida, “It’s totally a wild, wild west market. Buyer beware. You never know what you’re going to get in this business.” Treating the resulting addiction with Suboxone sublingual film can make a bad situation worse. 
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Canada and U.S. Hairstylist file Hair Relaxer Cancer Lawsuits, and EPA Formaldehyde Warning

Canada and U.S. Hairstylist file Hair Relaxer Cancer Lawsuits, and EPA Formaldehyde Warning January 27, 2025. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in early January issued a warning: formaldehyde, a chemical in hair relaxers and hair straighteners, “presents an unreasonable risk of injury to human health”. Perhaps the FDA will now ban formaldehyde, which it was supposed to do last April, 2024. Meanwhile, a proposed hair relaxer class action is filed in Canada and a hairstylist files a lawsuit in the U.S.
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Hair Relaxer Litigation and Proposed Legislation Increases Awareness

Hair Relaxer Litigation and Proposed Legislation Increases Awareness December 31, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Queens, NY A recent awareness event held in Queens brought together dozens of women to discuss the possible link between hair relaxers and serious health issues, including reproductive cancer.  A panel of women also addressed more product label transparency, particularly warning labels regarding harmful chemicals that are found in hair straighteners.
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Exactech Bankruptcy Stay

Exactech Bankruptcy Stay December 19, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA Although a court order has announced a stay on proceedings in the wake of Exactech’s bankruptcy announcement, the court said it will continue to accept new Exactech hip lawsuits into the MDL. U.S. District Judge Nicolas G. Garaufis, in the Eastern District of New York, has placed a stay on all litigation involving Exactech’s defective knee, hip and ankle replacement components.
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Exactech Files Bankruptcy

Exactech Files Bankruptcy November 24, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA Exactech has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The medical device manufacturer will sell its assets to investors due to "unsustainable liabilities associated with knee and hip litigation related to the packaging recalls we voluntarily initiated between 2021 and 2022.” However, lawyers advise plaintiffs who have filed defective Exactech knee and hip implants not to panic because insurance and assets are available to victims in bankruptcy.
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Hair Relaxer Cancer Litigation Ongoing and Advocates Fight for Change

Hair Relaxer Cancer Litigation Ongoing and Advocates Fight for Change November 19, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA As advocates and watchdogs with organizations like the NAACP and the Environmental Working Group, and at least one politician, create more awareness amongst Black women about serious health risks of hair straightener products, more hair relaxer lawsuits are filed. And they are insisting that the regulatory framework needs to change. 
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More Hair Relaxer Lawsuits Filed, Still Contain Formaldehyde

More Hair Relaxer Lawsuits Filed, Still Contain Formaldehyde October 31, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Santa Clara, CA Just five months after a study published in 2021 showed a link between the use of hair straightener, women—and mostly Black women—diagnosed with uterine and ovarian cancers began filing hair relaxer lawsuits. By 2023, the FDA proposed a ban on formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals in the hair products, with an April 2024 deadline. Incredibly, April came and went and formaldehyde stayed. And the lawsuits are increasing. This October alone, 200 new cases joined the hair relaxer class action lawsuit. 
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Agreement to Settle nearly 38,000 Bard Hernia Mesh Lawsuits

Agreement to settle nearly 38,000 Bard hernia mesh lawsuits October 18, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Columbus, OH Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), the parent company of BARD, has agreed to settle about 38,000 hernia mesh lawsuits. Reports indicate that the total payouts could exceed $1 Billion. The mesh lawsuits, some of which go back almost 20 years, allege that Bard designed defective mesh products, failed to adequately test them, and didn’t properly warn users about potential risks.
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Monsanto Wins in Philadelphia's Roundup Mass Tort

Monsanto Wins in Philadelphia's Roundup Mass Tort October 11, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Philadelphia, PA Bayer’s Monsanto had a good September. A Philadelphia jury found that, although Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller was defective, it did not cause plaintiff Ryan Young's non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It determined that Young did not provide sufficient evidence to prove that Roundup was the cause of his cancer. This is the fifth Monsanto Roundup lawsuit verdict in Philadelphia and the second win for the agrochemical company since trials began here about a year ago.
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PFAS Banned in Two States, Firefighters Still Wearing Carcinogenic Gear

PFAS Banned in Two States, Firefighters Still Wearing Carcinogenic Gear October 2, 2024. By Jane Mundy.
Washington, DC When firefighters wear their personal protective equipment made with known PFAS chemicals, they are going beyond the call of duty. Firefighters signed up to fight fires, but they didn’t sign up to die from the carcinogenic gear they wear. PFAS health risks have been known for decades, so why can’t the federal government ban PFAS firefighting gear?
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