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  • FDA to Evaluate the Risk of SSRI Birth Defects
    Feb-17-09 Sacramento, CA In early February the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would review a lengthy list of drugs for potential safety problems. Selective Serotonin Receptor Antagonist (SSRI) antidepressants are on that list. Specifically, the agency said they would be evaluating the risk of SSRI birth defects . SSRIs are widely used in t...
  • The Racial Bias of Madison Avenue
    Jan-25-09 New York, NY With America's first African-American president now in the Oval Office, it is surprising and somewhat disturbing to note that employment discrimination remains an issue in some industries. Employment law dictates that race and gender should no longer be issues. But sadly they are, and a just-released study reveals employee racial discriminat...
  • Peanut Butter Recall Spreading to More Products
    Jan-18-09 Collegedale, TN A peanut butter recall linked to a national salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people in 43 states got much wider today, after the company that sells the popular 'Little Debbie' products announced a voluntary recall of peanut butter crackers. Today, McKee Foods Corporation located here recalled lots of Little Debbie pea...
  • The Fine Line Between Birth Defects and Antidepressants
    Jan-12-09 Atlanta, GA Various antidepressant drugs, such as Prozac, have been linked to an increase in SSRI birth defects in children. Experts agree that the issue of antidepressants and pregnancy is not an easy one to sort out. While there could be risk to the fetus by continuing to take an antidepressant, stopping a necessary antidepressant during pregnancy coul...
  • Baxter Cited in Tainted Heparin Class Action
    Jan-10-09 Madison, IL A class-action lawsuit filed this week not only seeks compensation for scores of patients harmed by tainted heparin , the claim sheds new light on the whole sordid story. For the first time, a manufacturer has been accused of altering the profile of the drug, in an attempt to reduce costs. The allegation is that Baxter—the pharmaceutical gia...
  • The Durom Cup Runneth Over With Frustration and Controversy
    Dec-24-08 Warsaw, IN The Durom Cup debacle has pitted the manufacturer against the surgeon with regard to just what happens when a Zimmer hip replacement fails. When the Zimmer hip prosthesis system began failing, requiring revision surgeries, the manufacturer was quick to blame the surgeons for not installing them properly. But surgeons begged to differ, and the...
  • Mothers Denied Long Term Care Insurance
    Dec-19-08 Sacramento, CA People rely on long term care insurance to provide help if and when they are unable to help themselves. Policy holders are entitled to have the costs of assisted living, managed care or home health paid for by their health insurance company if they suffer from serious and chronic physical or mental illness, disability or impairment. Yet ma...
  • FDA Tags Entire Class of Drugs for Risk of Suicide
    Dec-17-08 Washington, DC As if the current economic morass America finds itself in isn't enough to drive people to despair, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that patients prescribed antiepileptic drugs could face the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The agency has mandated that a veritable basket of drugs, used to treat everything from...
  • Ketek—What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing!
    Dec-11-08 Washington, DC When it comes to Ketek, the FDA has proven yet again that it is incapable of policing the drug industry. The antibiotic ketek has been linked to potentially lethal side effects, from liver failure to Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) . Although several SJS ketek cases have been reported, the drug maker Sanofi Aventis is only now "discussing"...
  • Mother's Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry
    Dec-5-08 Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades. Knowledge of these terrible risks would have caused a major drop in sales to this customer b...
  • Taser Death: Attorney discusses the first successful Verdict Against Taser International
    Nov-25-08 Woodland Hills, CA On June 7, 2008 Attorney Peter Williamson and Co-counsel John Burton were successful in obtaining the first products liability verdict against TASER International in the history of the company as a result of the wrongful Taser death of Robert Heston. They successfully convinced a jury that the weapon manufacturer knew or should have kn...
  • SSRI Birth Defects: "My Daughter was Born with four Heart Defects"
    Nov-24-08 Manitowoc, WI Amy quit taking effexor in her first trimester of pregnancy but she had been taking the antidepressant for roughly 2 years prior to that. Her baby girl was born with heart defects, and given the research she has done, Amy believes effexor may have caused the birth defects. "At some point, early in my pregnancy, I asked my doctor if it w...
  • Human Error a Common Theme in Plane Crashes
    Nov-21-08 Washington, DC We are expected to make split-second decisions many times in our life and luckily for the majority of us, our decisions will not result in a plane crash or other catastrophe. Pilots, flight crew, maintenance workers and air traffic controllers are all required to make many, many decisions in a single day. Sometimes, they make the wrong dec...
  • Chantix Suicide and Homicide Risk: Lawsuit
    Nov-16-08 Boston, MA Chantix is a story that just won't go away. While critics pine for a Chantix recall that just isn't happening, and doctors become increasingly alarmed over associations between Chantix and suicide , a number of watchdog agencies continue to raise the alarm over this once-exalted anti-smoking drug that appears to be doing more harm than good f...
  • Paxil Birth Defects: Two Women, One Cause
    Nov-15-08 Brampton, ON Two women, both taking the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) Paxil while pregnant, have launched independent lawsuits against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) , alleging the pharmaceutical company failed to adequately warn them of the risks of taking the drug while pregnant. The most recent case is that of Shannon Cote, a 29-year mother...
  • Father Wonders if Paxil caused Two Holes in Daughter's Heart
    Nov-11-08 Lebanon, IN Mark's daughter was born with two holes in her heart. Although his wife was not taking Paxil during her pregnancy, he was. He wonders if the heart defects, which match the Paxil-related birth defects, may be related to his use of the antidepressant. He can find no other plausible explanation. Mark has depression, and his doctor prescribed...
  • Death by Taser: A Stunning Development
    Nov-2-08 Washington, DC According to the US arm of Amnesty International (AIUSA) the number of people who have been Tasered to death since 2001 has grown to 320. So many deaths by Tasers, and all this amidst a growing medical concern and a growing outcry from the general public that such weapons exceed a law enforcement official's normal capacity to subdue a thre...
  • Interview with Dr. Todd Curtis, Air Safety Expert
    Oct-31-08 Dr. Todd Curtis has been involved in aviation in one form or another for 30 years. He took his first flight in a glider at the age of 18 and got his private license before becoming a flight test engineer. He also worked at Boeing as an airline safety engineer. While working at Boeing, Curtis came up with the idea for AirSafe.com, a website that would give us...
  • The Whistleblower and the Voting Machine
    Oct-27-08 Washington, DC With one of the most important Presidential elections in US history mere days away, concern is resurfacing over the integrity of voting machines and the potential for tampering, according to two whistleblowers . Indeed, there has been a lot of whistleblowing going on with regard to one of the most closely guarded freedoms inherent with demo...
  • Pilot Error Causes Plane Crashes
    Oct-25-08 Madrid, Spain When you board an airplane, you expect the pilot is fully capable of dealing with any situation that might arise and will always make the right decision to avert a plane crash. Of course, pilots are humans and humans make mistakes. Sadly, when pilots make mistakes the result can be a fatal airplane crash. A recent analysis, conducted a...
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