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Mar-3-08 Vallejo, CA: Bankruptcy may be in the near future for Vallejo because of a budget crisis that is only getting worse due to rising payroll expenses, failing tax revenue, and a slumping housing market. On Thursday, the city council is expected to vote on whether or not they agree with the city manager's advice that the city should file for Chapter 9 ban... - College Student Dragged by Truck on Way to School
Feb-28-08 Miami Dade, FL What started as a normal drive to school ended in absolute terror for Mini, when she was involved in a truck accident . Her car was hit by an 18-wheel semi-truck and then dragged. What is even scarier is that the huge tractor-trailer driver didn't even know he had crashed into her, and he dragged her, in her car, for more than a mile. ... - Is Your Kidney Failure Due to Trasylol?
Feb-25-08 Nashville, TN If the February 17th edition of 60 Minutes on CBS wasn't enough to condemn Trasylol in the eyes of Americans, the publication of two additional studies slamming the safety of Trasylol should convince any remaining doubters regarding the mounting evidence that Trasylol leads to an increase in death and kidney failure . In one of two ne... - Kugel Mesh: Federal Court Expands Devices It Will Consider
Feb-21-08 Providence, RI The news for Kugel Mesh manufacturer Davol doesn't get any better, but it does for victims of the Kugel Mesh patch as well as other Davol mesh devices after the Federal Court in Rhode Island decided late last month to expand the Davol products that qualify for litigation. Initially, when all claims relating to Kugel mesh were consolid... - Nearly a Third of Bypass Patients Given Trasylol
Feb-21-08 Seattle, WA: It has been found that Trasylol was given to as many as one-third of U.S. patients who had undergone heart bypass or comparable surgery before the November 2007 recall of the drug, according to researcher Dr. Dennis Mangano. Approved by the FDA in 1993, Trasylol is used to reduce bleeding during heart bypass surgery by blocking the enzyme... - Trasylol: A Thousand Deaths a Month
Feb-18-08 Long Island, NY You have seen his name before, in various articles about Trasylol , the now-vilified drug that was removed from the active market by Bayer AG on November 5th of last year following a two-year hailstorm of salacious revelations. Joe Randone, a 52-year-old sales rep from Long Island New York. Suffering from a heart murmur since he wa... - Researcher: Too Many Deaths Caused by Trasylol
Feb-16-08 Rockville, MD At least one critic of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the organization acted too slowly when it learned of the dangers of Trasylol. According to Dr. Dennis Mangano, approximately 22,000 lives could have been saved if the FDA had removed Trasylol from the market when it received evidence that the drug was linked to thousand... - Still No Recall on the Yamaha Rhino ATV Despite Rollover Accidents
Feb-13-08 Falstaff, AZ Despite the amount of Yamaha Rhino ATV rollover accidents in which hundreds of people have been injured and even killed, there has still yet to be a recall on the recreational vehicle. Various consumer advocates state that the reason for the rollovers is due to a flaw in the vehicle's design. It was in 2007 that Yamaha responded to the safet... - Accutane: Slipping Through the Cracks Everywhere
Feb-12-08 Salt Lake City, UT All things considered, we would be better off without Accutane. Since its introduction in 1982, the "last resort" acne medication from Roche Pharmaceuticals has been linked to terrible birth defects including hydrocephaly (excess fluid around the brain), microcephaly (unnaturally small head size), heart defects, cleft lip, missing ea... - Church-going Parishioners Refused Service at Ruby's Diner
Feb-11-08 Redondo Beach, CA: Bhagavan and Ila and the rest of their church group had been going to Ruby's Dineras regularly as they had been going to church. But when they questioned restaurant management about accommodating a disabled parishioner, they were asked to leave and refused all future service. That discrimination against the disabled , said Bhagavan,... - Bankrupt and Belly Up
Feb-10-08 Surrey, BC: Gale Winkleman and her partner (let's call him Brad) had a garbage disposal business together in Surrey, British Columbia, until 2000. Then Brad discovered cocaine. He took a lot of cash out of the business and eventually spent it on crack cocaine. Winkelman has no idea exactly how much Brad took -- in cash and crack -- because he did so many... - Avandia caused more Harm than Good
Feb-8-08 Akron, OH Tim Villar, age 38, was prescribed the diabetes drug Avandia to control diabetes 2. It helped lower his blood sugar count but Villar's doctor said it wasn't low enough. Worse, he was born with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) but it never bothered him until his second year on Avandia. Now Villar is worried that he might suffer a heart attack due t... - Asbestos Mesothelioma Victims Awarded Millions
Feb-4-08 Baltimore, MD: Jurors in Baltimore have found defendants liable in two separate cases, in which exposure to asbestos-containing products caused the plaintiffs to develop mesothelioma. On January 30, 3008, a Maryland state court jury ordered John Crane Inc. to pay 73-year-old George J. Linkus, $15.3 million in damages after he contracted malignant mes... - Trasylol Fiasco - FDA Fails To Protect Americans Again - Part II
Feb-4-08 Washington, DC: In reading the report issued by the Zuckerman Spaeder law firm, one thing is perfectly clear. Bayer was willing to pay $700,000 to get a Trasylol study done in time for the September 21, 2006 advisory committee meeting, if it could refute the findings of the New England Journal of Medicine study. However, unbeknownst to the contract re... - Trasylol: The Worm Turned Almost Overnight
Jan-27-08 Long Island, NY: By now most are familiar with the recent fortunes of anti-bleeding drug Trasylol , and how it has been pulled from world markets after studies have revealed links to heart attack, stroke and kidney failure . A major Canadian study was halted back in October after concern over the death rate of aprotinin (Trasylol) participants. The US Fo... - PPH Class Action: Drop a Few Pounds, Forfeit a Few Years
Jan-15-08 Washington, DC: There's nothing worse than finding out ten years after the fact that a diet pill you took briefly may be the cause of PPH symptoms. The fact these diet pills and appetite suppressants were deemed safe at the time provides the gist for PPH class action lawsuits, which are continuing to gather steam. PPH is the acronym for Primary Pulmon... - More Controversy Surrounding Zetia
Jan-13-08 New York, NY: When the makers of Zetia announced that they were changing the goals of a clinical trial of the drug, after the trial had already been started, the companies faced a great deal of criticism. According to an article in Forbes, the situation was actually more controversial than that. The reason is that, according to Forbes, when the comp... - UK Regulator Investigating Trasylol, Pulls Licenses
Jan-8-08 Washington, DC: The future of Trasylol , the heart drug manufactured by Bayer AG, became even more clouded as the year prepared to come to a close, after the Commission on Human Medicines in the United Kingdom advised that the UK marketing authorizations for Trasylol should be pulled, and held in abeyance pending the outcome of a full, European review of... - SSRI May Have Caused Reflux Disease
Jan-4-08 Elkin, NC: SSRIs can cause many serious problems for infants and children. Many people associate the use of SSRIs while pregnant with birth defects such as primary pulmonary hypertension and other lung and heart problems. However, Theresa H. (not her real name) says that she thinks taking Paxil and Zoloft may have caused her child to develop gastro-esoph... - Preemption - Bush Administration Tag-Team Argues for Medtronic Part II
Jan-3-08 Washington, DC: Persuading the US Supreme Court to rule against the private citizen in the case of Medtronic v Riegel would represent the ultimate parting gift to the device industry from the neutered duck in the White House, because a ruling by the nation's highest court cannot be undone. In the words of Ted Olson, the Bush Administration's Former Soli...