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NTSB Investigators in Denver Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were sent to Denver over the weekend to investigate the crash of Continental's flight 1404 at Denver airport on Saturday. The crash, which caused 115 passengers and crew to flee the burning wreckage through emergency exists, occurred following an aborted take-off... - 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... - How Will Neuberger Sale Affect Mutual Funds?
Dec-12-08 New York, NY Now that the dust has settled and Lehman Brothers' Neuberger Berman group has been sold, investors are left wondering what effect the sale will have on their mutual funds. While Neuberger officials say that Neuberger mutual funds and other investments are stable, investors are left to wonder if that really is the case, or if they are just be... - Bowel-Clearing Drugs Injure Kidneys
FDA Puts Black Boxed Warning on Drugs The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it will add a Boxed Warning to the prescription oral sodium phosphate (OSP) products Visicol and OsmoPrep to warn consumers about the risk of acute phosphate nephropathy (a type of acute kidney injury). Patients routinely take OSP products to cleanse the... - 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"... - Warning Links Asthma Drugs to Risk of Death
Two federal drug officials have issued a warning that people suffering from asthma face a risk of death if they continue to use 4 popular asthma drugs--Advair, Foradil, Symbicort and Serevent. The officials said in their warning that no asthma sufferers should use those 4 drugs; however, a third official said that while no one under the age of 17 should use... - 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... - The Truth About Tenants in Common
Dec-1-08 Buffalo, NY Investors with their money in Tenants in Common agreements might be glad they do not have their money in other investments, but they may be surprised to learn that their real estate investments could also be losing value. Unfortunately, many thought their investment was risk free and they would be fine in the economic crisis only to learn tha... - 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... - Heparin Contamination Still Under a Cloud of Questions
Nov-24-08 Washington, DC The heparin contamination story that has dominated the medical news in the last year, touching everything from heparin injection with heparin syringes to the exposure of Americans to lax quality standards in China, continues to play out. And now there is a new wrinkle with the recent charge by a Texas Republican Congressman that the US... - 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... - Pop Goes the Commercial Contract: Jackson and Prince Are Served
Nov-18-08 Chanhassen, MN Ah, boys will be boys. Even really popular boys, who are loved and revered by millions. But sorry boys, a contract is a contract—and when commercial contracts are breached for any reason, you can expect to be slammed with commercial contract law unless you can prove that the commercial contract was not worth the paper it was signed on. ... - FDA Report Cites Serious Health Problems in Children Given Lamisil
Hospitalizations, and Neurological Problems Reported Lamisil, an antifungal medication known generically as terbinafine, has been associated with 47 instances of serious adverse events in children as of January 4, 2008, according to a memorandum from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Of the 47 cases, 6 involved hospitalization, life threatenin... - 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... - SSRI Antidepressants Pushers
Nov-16-08 After twenty long years, it appears that the epidemic in mental disorders in America might be coming to an end. It won't happen because of any great medical breakthrough but rather because the perpetrators of the greatest healthcare fraud in history are finally being exposed. The demolition of the giant "psycho-pharmaceutical complex" appears to be on the ho... - 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... - ERISA Lawsuit Filed Against Fannie Mae
Nov-14-08 Minneapolis, MN In addition to a variety of financial problems, Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) now faces a lawsuit alleging the company violated ERISA laws. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed on behalf of all those who were participants in or beneficiaries of the company's Employee Stock Ownership Plan between... - 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...