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Sort by relevance 1,864 pages found matching %3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27What_Security?%27%29%3C/script%3E- Lawmakers Want to End Big Pharma Recruitment Schemes - Part 1
May-29-07 Washington, DC: Federal lawmakers are stepping up the pace to put a stop to the pharmaceutical industry's customer recruitment schemes used to boost the sale of psychiatric drugs by tugging at heartstrings in promoting mental health screening programs as suicide prevention tools. On May 18, 2007, US House of Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), a physicia... - Feds Investigate Profits From Off-Label Stent Procedures - Part II
May-25-07 Washington, DC: In addition to the federal investigations into the off-label marketing of drug eluting stents by Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson, on May 10, 2007, Rep Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), who serves on the House Appropriations Subcommittee, announced the introduction of the FDA reform bill which addresses the issue of doctors using product... - Fen-Phen Lawsuits: Shortness of Breath Could Signal PPH
May-25-07 Philadelphia, PA Lawsuits are still being filed against the maker of fen-phen, a popular diet drug combination that resulted in serious complications for many of the people who took it, including PPH. Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and heart valve damage are two such complications. Many people who take medications do not think that they will... - Avandia Concerns Known Since 2000
May-24-07 Chapel Hill, NC The diabetes drug Avandia , which has been in the news this week following a report in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) over concerns of a link to heart problems, continues to percolate throughout the prescription drug world - and telling information, lurking beneath the surface almost since the drug fist came onto the market, is... - Asbestos Found in 21 University Buildings at Cal State
May-23-07 Northridge, CA Faculty and staff at California State University were shocked when an article in the university newspaper revealed that asbestos has been detected in 21 of the campus's buildings. Risks associated with asbestos exposure include asthma, asbestosis, elevated risks of lung cancer, colon cancer and mesothelioma -- an incurable cancer of the... - Living in the Shadow of the Power Plant
May-23-07 Harrisburg, PA People residing near the Bruce Mansfield power plant in Beaver County, PA, have been living under a barrage of air contamination, and finally the plant owner is going to be taken to court, says PennFuture, an environmental public interest organization. Lawsuit pending In a May 22 press release, PennFuture says it will launch a "citizen... - Avandia: Heart Attack risk Revealed
May-22-07 Avandia, (known generically as rosiglitazone) a widely used diabetes drug, raises the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, as published in [ The New England Journal of Medicine ] on May 21, 2007. The analysis was based on a review of about 28,000 patients involved in 42 previously conducted clinical studies. The Journal concluded that: Rosiglitazo... - Feds Investigate Profits From Off-Label Heart Stent Procedures - Part I
May-21-07 Washington DC The stenting for profit industry may soon be history. On March 1, 2007, the chairman of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Henry Waxman (D-CA), ordered Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific to turn over documents as part of an investigation into the off-label marketing of drug-eluting stents. Boston's Taxus, and... - Investigations Focus on Illegal Marketing by Medical Device and Supply Companies
May-18-07 Washington, DC Government law enforcement agencies have made it known that illegal marketing and promotional practices of medical device and supply companies are now the targets of investigations basically because lawmakers who oversee spending by public health care programs say the booming business in this field of medicine is a little too good to be true... - California Labor Lawsuit: Help for Latino workers
May-18-07 Los Angeles, CA California labor law plaintiffs have just received a great boost from activists.The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and civil rights lawyer Bill Lann Lee announced May 16 that they are both joining a California labor law class action filed by more than one thousand construction workers, most of whom are Latinos,... - Doctors Weigh in on Permax Recall
May-17-07 Chapel Hill, NC On March 29, 2007, the FDA withdrew Permax (pergolide) from the market because it increases the risk of valvular heart disease. It was the right thing to do, according to leading research physicians. In a New England Journal of Medicine report, Permax, used to treat Parkinson's disease, can seriously damage heart valves. Some medical... - Device Makers Profit by Promoting Biliary Stents for Dangerous Unapproved Uses
May-16-07 Washington DC There is a major controversy brewing over the off-label sale of biliary stents for unapproved uses. On March 12, 2007, the FDA held a meeting in Washington with the makers of the bile stents to remind them about the restrictions on their promotion of these devices for unapproved uses. For the record, the FDA approved use for the majority o... - More Trouble in Medtronic Heartland
May-16-07 Mineapolis, MN Minnesota based Medtronic is one of the world's largest suppliers of defibrillators through its Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management division and its top selling products are pacemakers and defibrillators. CRDM net sales for the 3 and 9 months ended January 26, 2007 were $1.291 billion and $3.904 billion, according to the firm's latest SEC fili... - Paxil Claims a Short Life
May-15-07 Omaha, NE "My wife took Paxil before and during her pregnancy and everything was fine," says Trever Hargitt. "This was going to be our third so we knew what to expect -- or thought we did..." Keagan Hargitt lived only three short weeks due to heart and lung failure. "Now we will never know what our son could have grown up to be." "There was nothing... - Overtime: Not All States are Created Equally
May-15-07 Sanford, NC: Most questions and complaints about employment have to do with overtime and failure to pay overtime is one of the leading causes of claims against employers. After all, time means money, especially when it comes to extra hours that countless programmers are "asked" to do. But many programmers find themselves working overtime without the mo... - Asbestos Lawsuits keep Rolling On
May-14-07 Redondo Beach, CA Ready for some more bad news about asbestos ? Apparently, asbestos poisoning is starting to strike people down at an earlier age. Why this is happening is unclear. "An increasing number of patients suffering from asbestos-related diseases are now younger than in previous reports," reads a May 9/2007 press release from the Asbestos Dis... - Ethicon's Sutures: Post-Operative Nightmare
May-9-07 Kenner, LA It has been a hell of a year for Lisa Johnston. In May of 2006, she went into the hospital for what she believed would be routine surgery, requiring 5 weeks of recovery. One year and two major surgeries later, she is in chronic pain and just beginning to pick up the pieces of her life. "I feel lucky to be alive," Lisa Johnston (not her real n... - Business as Usual for Permax Distributor
May-9-07 Aliso Viejo, CA Permax distributor Valeant Pharmaceuticals International reported its first quarter results on May 1 of 2007, showing an increase in revenues, but making no mention of its voluntary agreement with the FDA to withdraw Permax from the market. Permax is the Parkinson's disease drug now associated with the potential for serious heart valve... - Boston Scientific: Oops, They Did It Again
May-8-07 Los Angeles, CA: "Oops I did it again" is the name of a song by pop star Britney Spears. It could also be the motto of medical device manufacturers Guidant (now part of Boston Scientific) who recently issued yet another recall for defective defibrillators/pacemakers. The latest recall was announced April 5, 2007, and concerns some 73,000 Implantable... - HDTVs Not What They Seem
May-8-07 Los Angeles, CA: High Definition Televisions (HDTVs) have become a popular new purchase; however, some people do not realize that some of the 1080p HDTVs have a defect because they are not compatible with all 1080p devices. Furthermore, many of the televisions tested for a report in Home Theater Magazine (May 2006) do not properly deinterlace signals,...