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Dec-1-06 Washington, DC: As fall turns to winter, more and more articles about injuries or death due to propane explosions are written, reminding everyone how important it is to be safe when using propane. According to the National Propane Gas Association, more than 50 million Americans use propane daily for tasks such as heating and cooling homes, cooking, he... - Biggest Off-Label Drug Marketing Scheme in US History - Part I
Nov-30-06 Washington, DC: The promotion and sale of two classes of psychiatric drugs, the atypical antipsychotics and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants (SSRIs), will go down in history as the most successful off-label marketing scheme of all time. But unfortunately, before the illegal scheme takes its rightful place in the law books, a lot m... - Ending FDA's Love Affair With Big Pharma
Nov-22-06 Washington, DC: With the Democrats back in power, critics say officials at the FDA and representatives of Big Pharma had better plan on spending much of their time testifying on Capital Hill in Congressional hearings in 2007. Democrats have spelled out their plans to change how the administration chooses experts to sit on FDA advisory panels and put a... - Kugel Mesh Patches Considered a Serious Recall
Nov-19-06 Murray Hill, NJ: The recall of Kugel Mesh patches that was announced by the FDA earlier this year was serious enough to merit a Class 1 recall. A Class 1 recall means that the recalled device could potentially cause serious injuries, pain, and possibly even death. The recall was announced after Davol Inc, a subsidiary of CR Bard, learned of 31 rin... - FDA needs to Reevaluate Fosamax Safety
Nov-10-06 Roseland, NJ: The FDA is facing mounting accusations that it puts more effort into protecting drug company profits than protecting American consumers from unsafe drugs and Merck's Fosamax is but the latest example of this unhealthy allegiance. According to the 2003 report by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Service... - ACE Inhibitors and Birth Defects - More Expensive and Less Effective
Nov-9-06 Boston, MA: About one in every four American adults has high blood pressure which is a major risk factor for heart and kidney disease, as well as stroke and heart failure, but often occurs with no warning signs. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against blood vessel walls. The heart pumps blood into the arteries which carry the blood througho... - Stockbroker Arbitration: Protecting Yourself
Nov-7-06 Los Angeles, CA: If an investor feels his losses were the result of negligent actions on the part of his stockbroker , rather than the vagaries of the market, he can file for arbitration to try to recover those losses. Many contracts between investors and brokers require the investors to submit such disputes with their brokers to arbitration. Furth... - Warfarin: Regularly Putting Patients in the Hospital
Nov-2-06 Los Angeles, CA: Warfarin , known generically as Coumadin , has been named by the Journal of the American Medial Association as one of the drugs that is most likely to put patients in the emergency room. Researchers found that adverse reactions to medications, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and herbal supplements, send up to 700,... - ReNu with MoistureLoc: Consumers Still at Risk
Nov-1-06 San Diego, CA: Despite being recalled in April of this year, ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution was still recording a two percent market share into September, indicating that the product was still available for sale in some stores long after the recall. This market data calls into question whether or not manufacturer Bausch and Lomb was agg... - Salinas E.coli: How Many get Sick before Action is Taken?
Oct-31-06 Hillsborough, CA It's ironic - what you think is good for you turns out to be the worst. How can so many people (over 200 so far, including three deaths) get sick before the cause is determined? Many food and health advocates say that the system isn't set up to protect the public: Barbara Rogers and Dinah Saunders agree. "I thought my daughter had t... - ReNu Recall: Not Effective Enough
Oct-27-06 San Diego, CA "My eyes were inflamed and irritated and my family doctor told me to rinse my eyes and contacts more often," says Heather Jones. So I increased the use of ReNu with MoistureLoc ." That was in March 2006. Only one month later, the first lawsuit against Bausch & Lomb claiming injuries from its recalled ReNu was filed in federal court. ... - Printer Cartridges Expire before their Time
Oct-26-06 Round Rock, TX Increasingly, inkjet and laser printers are a constant source of frustration for consumers. Companies such as Hewlett Packard (HP), Dell, Lexmark, Epson and Brother, just to name a few, are manufacturing their printers to shut down before the ink cartridge is empty. In other words, they make you throw away something for absolutely no re... - Experts Alarmed by Rising Cases of Fosamax Jaw Bone Death
Oct-25-06 Atlantic City, NJ: Dentists and oral surgeons are becoming increasingly worried about the rising number of patients they are seeing with osteonecrosis (ONJ). ONJ is a painful, disfiguring, debilitating condition that essentially rots the jawbone, as a result of millions of Americans taking the relatively new class of osteoporosis medications. The d... - ReNu Sufferers: the List keeps Growing
Oct-20-06 Elgin, IL "In May 2006 I got a really bad eye infection and thought it was pink eye," says Amy Hamblin. "When I went to the opthamologist, the first thing he asked me was if I had used ReNu with MoistureLoc." "Bingo! I had been using ReNu for about a month, just about the same time I gave birth to my daughter. I started using it in the hospital bu... - Glaxo gets Hit with another Paxil Birth Defects Lawsuit
Oct-17-06 Denver, CO Two years ago, little Eric Jackson was born with persistent pulmonary hypertension, a life-threatening lung disorder in which an infant's arteries to the lungs remain constricted after birth, limiting the amount of blood flow to the lungs and oxygen in the bloodstream. Persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) is associated with substantial in... - Cases of Fosamax Jaw Bone Damage Continue To Rise
Oct-12-06 Ann Arbor, MI An article in the October 2006, "Current Opinions in Orthopaedics," by Dr Catherine Van Poznak, assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, reports that 10% of cancer patients taking Fosamax , or other drugs known as bisphosphonates , have developed osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). An April 4,... - Zyprexa Sales Show No Amount of Lawsuits Will Deter Lilly
Sep-28-06 Indianapolis, IN Scores of new lawsuits are being filed by patients who say they took Zyprexa without knowing the risks after Eli Lilly promoted the drug to doctors as a treatment for conditions other than schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that the drug is approved to treat. In June 2005, Lilly announced plans to settle roughly 8,000 claims by pati... - The Agony of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
Sep-26-06 Raleigh, NC 16-month-old Lisa was rushed to hospital with an allergic reaction after taking children's Motrin. She was burning from the inside out. "Can you imagine the pain?" says her mother, "It's like someone taking a knife and cutting off your skin." She was diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS). "My daughter was first admitted to hospital... - Kaiser Kidney Transplant Program Gets Reprieve From Medicare Officials
Sep-25-06 San Francisco, CA In August 2006, Kaiser Permanente , the nation's largest Health Maintenance Organization, agreed to pay a $2 million fine and donate $3 million to a charity group after numerous government investigations determined that the HMO caused harm, and in some cases death, to hundreds of kidney transplant patients. Two months earlier in Ju... - Abuse and Neglect of Elderly Rampant in Nursing Home Industry
Sep-12-06 Little Rock, AR In 1987, Congress passed landmark legislation aimed at improving nursing home care for the nation's vulnerable elderly population. However, a recent investigation by Consumer Reports found poor care in nursing homes is still extremely common, especially in the for-profit chains that have become the dominant force in the industry. The...