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May-11-11 Dallas, TX US Medicaid and Medicare officials have reportedly found a number of issues at Dallas County's general hospital, including a knee replacement implant failure that occurred in 2008. The Associated Press reports that the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to conduct the investigation into Parkland Memorial Hospital afte... - "Avelox Has Taken My Life Away"
Apr-29-11 Bristol, RI For anyone not familiar with the horrific side effects caused by Avelox , the following story seems unbelievable. How could an antibiotic destroy your health and family and leave you financially destitute? "Avelox has taken everything away from me," says Sue, a former nurse, mother of two and now divorced. "I put on my fake happy face for my... - Some Good "Lawyering" Returns $3.3 Million in Harassment Case
Apr-21-11 Woodland Hills, CA It was not your average harassment complaint that 25-year-old Kyme Dang brought to attorney Neil Sunkin in 2007. But after four years of working on her behalf and some good old-fashioned "lawyering," as Sunkin calls it, the court ordered former boyfriend, Barry Hankerson, to pay Dang $3,335,861 in damages caused by a long and repeate... - Did Effexor Cause Matthew's Death? The Questions Continue
Apr-17-11 Kamloops, BC A little under two months ago, Matthew Schultz would have celebrated his second birthday. Two years of life for the child of a British Columbia family in Canada. However, Matthew never made it to two years. The sad reality is that Matthew lived only two hours when he was born on February 21, 2009. His mother had been prescribed Effexor. The su... - Young Boy Dies in Chicago Amusement Park Accident
Apr-15-11 Chicago, IL A three-year-old boy died recently in an amusement park accident in Chicago after he freed himself from a safety harness and stood up on the roller coaster he was riding with his family, Reuters reports. According to the news provider, Jayson Dansby was sitting toward the front of the "Python Pit" roller coaster with his twin brother a... - Verizon Pays $93.5 Million to Settle Government Whistleblower Lawsuit
Apr-8-11 Washington, DC Verizon Communications Inc. recently paid more than $93 million to resolve government whistleblower allegations that it overcharged on invoices for telecommunications service contracts, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the news provider, the Justice Department claimed Verizon subsidiary MCI Communications Services Inc... - Can SSRIs Cause Heart Problems?
Apr-6-11 Miami, FL Amid the discussion about SSRI side effects , such as SSRI birth defects, a new study has opened the possibility of a new, potentially serious SSRI side effect: heart problems in men who take antidepressants. The study, which examined the use of antidepressants in general, suggests that the drugs result in an increased risk of atherosclerosis,... - Star of General Hospital Suffering from Fosamax Side Effects
Apr-4-11 New York, NY Sharon Wyatt, one of the stars on the soap opera General Hospital , is reportedly battling Fosamax side effects including osteonecrosis, or bone death, the New York Daily News reports. According to the news provider, Wyatt, like a number of other patients across the country, believes that her condition stemmed from her use of Fosamax... - Researcher Warns About Risk of Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning
Apr-2-11 Baltimore, MD A report published in the March/April 2011 issue of the journal General Dentistry warns dentists to be careful about exposing patients to denture cream zinc poisoning . The paper comes after warnings about the risk of denture adhesive zinc poisoning when patients use too much product that contains zinc, such as Fixodent denture cream. ... - Canadian Plaintiff Disputes Yasmin Safety with Bayer
Mar-20-11 Toronto, ON Ann Schwoob takes exception to the claims made by Bayer that the Yasmin birth control pill is safe. Her experience has been anything but safe, and the Canadian woman now has to take blood thinners after a fearful brush with Yasmin blood clot. Schwoob, along with her husband and another plaintiff, is suing Bayer and has applied for class-act... - Texas Employer Sued for Lack of Layoff Notice
Mar-15-11 Beaumont, TX An employer in Texas is in hot water for a Texas Labor Law violation pertaining to the failure to provide proper notice for a mass layoff at Conex International, a manufacturing facility located in Jefferson County. According to the February 22 edition of the Southeast Texas Record , about 50 employees were let go at the plant without pro... - And If You Lose, You Keep the Advance, Says Oasis
Mar-15-11 Chicago, IL As a former trial attorney and for the last eight years the executive director of the most active lawsuit funding company in the US, Elizabeth Pekin genuinely believes in what Oasis Legal Finance (OLF) does. "As a trial attorney in Chicago, I used to meet face-to-face with people who were often at the lowest point in their lives," she says. "Al... - Carr Miller Ponzi Scheme: What Should Investors Do?
Mar-9-11 Newark, NJ Investors who learned their money was put in the alleged Carr Miller Capital Ponzi Scheme now face the difficult task of determining what action to take to recover money lost to the alleged Ponzi scheme. Concern about what to do about money lost to securities fraud can take a backseat to concerns about what to do in the immediate future, wit... - FDA Investigates DePuy Hip Replacement Devices
Mar-1-11 Washington, DC Following the DePuy hip replacement recall, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is investigating concerns about metal-on-metal hip implants. The DePuy hip recall was announced after studies showed a higher than expected failure rate. Part of the problem with the DePuy hip replacement was that debris from the metal-on-m... - VA Medical Malpractice and PTSD
Feb-28-11 Ann Arbor, MI When John, a Gulf War veteran, came home from Iraq, he was suffering from panic attacks and wound up in the psychiatric ward of a Veteran's Administration hospital. But he still has "massive" panic attacks because he didn't get any help from the VA. "Sometimes it takes the slightest trigger and PTSD is hard to keep under control if you aren't... - Bayer Mum on Tendon Rupture in January Release
Feb-26-11 Ottawa, Ontario In January of this year, Bayer Inc. issued a press release touting the virtues of Avelox in treating Streptococcus pneumonia (SP). After treating 128 million patients worldwide, Avelox had been shown a consistent effectiveness against SP, the latter demonstrating a low resistance to moxifloxacin hydrochloride (Avelox). Given the concern... - Investors Lose Millions in Alleged Carr Miller Ponzi Scheme
Feb-24-11 Newark, NJ For people who lost money in the alleged Carr Miller Capital Ponzi Scheme , the issue is not only that they lost money but that they lost a lot of money. Investigators into the Ponzi scheme—a form of securities fraud—say that the money was used in investments the investors did not authorize and used to make personal purchases on b... - Johnson and Johnson Antitrust Settlement
A lawsuit in California against numerous contact lens manufacturers and the American Optometric Association was finally concluded after the final contact lens company, Johnson & Johnson, agreed to a $60 million settlement. The lawsuit, filed first in March of 2001 in Florida, was in response to allegations that retail contact lens prices were inflat... - Lawsuit against General Electric over MRI Health Risks Settled
Feb-11-11 Cleveland, OH A last-minute settlement was reached recently in a lawsuit against General Electric over the relationship between its drug Omniscan and MRI health risks , the Frederick County Times reports. The terms of the settlement are confidential, according to the lawyers involved in the case. The trial was scheduled to begin recently in US Dist... - New FDA Restrictions Now Reflected on Avandia Label
Feb-8-11 Washington, DC Severe restrictions on Avandia announced in September by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have finally made their way to the Avandia product label. According to a report by The Associated Press (AP) last night, the Avandia label (for US product) reflects the FDA recommendations that the Type 2 Diabetes drug is only intended fo...