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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Former Apple Employee Launches Class Action for Unpaid Overtime
Aug-10-09 Tallahassee, FL The issue of overtime pay continues to be a frustration for both employer and employee. It remains hard for employers to budget for overtime—which affects their bottom line—while employees deserve to be paid for hours worked. Overtime laws and overtime rules govern the disputes that are inevitable. Apple, one of the world... - Pending Supreme Court Antitrust Ruling Could Impact Professional Sports
Aug-10-09 Washington, DC Antitrust laws are being put to the test in what could turn out to be a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court. An antitrust act lawsuit originally filed by a supplier to the National Football League (NFL) and already dealt with by a series of lower courts will soon be up for consideration by the highest court. And the implications of the a... - More Bodies and Helicopter Fuselage Found in River
Aug-9-09 New York, NY NYPD divers found two more bodies buried in the plane and helicopter crash wreckage Sunday morning. The Police divers have recovered five bodies from the fuselage of a tourist helicopter in the Hudson River mid-air collision and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crane has now removed the Liberty Helicopter that collided with a low-flying air... - PPH and Fen-Phen: Herbal Recipe Just as Dangerous
Aug-9-09 Washington, DC Many people equate the words "natural", "organic" and "herbal" as safe and harmless, and good for you. But when it comes to herbal Fen-phen, nothing could be further from the truth. The association with PPH and Fen-phen has been known since 1997, and since that time, some companies put herbal Fen-phen on the market. But this herbal versi... - The Reality of Reglan Tardive Dyskinesia: Not a Pretty Sight
Aug-9-09 Washington, DC The most heartbreaking of Reglan side effects can be hard to watch: Reglan tardive dyskinesia, or involuntary movement. And yet a recent edition of 'FDA Patient Safety News,' a regular video update produced under the auspices of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows in grimacing detail the personified link between Reglan and ta... - Aircraft Collision now Recovery Mission
Aug-8-09 New York, NY The helicopter and plane crash that collided over the Hudson River around noon today is now a recovery mission, reported CNN. There were 3 people on the plane and 6 in the helicopter. One of the occupants in the plane was a child, and there were 5 Italian tourists on board in the helicopter plus the pilot. Two bodies have been recovered... - UK Women Still in the Dark About SSRI Birth Defect Risk
Aug-8-09 Bangor, Wales It will be two years next month that a study of nearly 500,000 women by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center revealed nearly half of women taking an ssri antidepressant had no idea their medication could cause SSRI birth defects . Women in the US aren't unique in that risk. Dr. Tim Kendall, joint director of the U... - Helicopter and Small Plane Collide in Mid-Air in Lower Manhattan
Aug-8-09 New York, NY Yet another air disaster has unfolded over the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan after a tourist helicopter and a small plane collided in mid-air around noon today. The plane crash rained debris into the water below. CNN is reporting that the helicopter belonged to Liberty Helicopter Sightseeing Tours and is believed to have had six... - Acetaminophen Aches
Aug-8-09 Boston, MA It might just be one of the best-known drugs on the market, but acetaminophen is now coming under fire after it was linked to an increased risk of liver failure. The situation is of a high enough concern that a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee met in June, 2009, to discuss potential action to lessen the rate of ac... - Privacy a Concern for Both Sides in California Labor Law
Aug-8-09 Pasadena, CA Two employees in a California office who objected to hidden surveillance in their work area sued their employer for invasion of privacy, only to lose in a recent California Supreme Court decision. The California Labor Law case may have been a victory for the employer, with the Supreme Court upholding limitations on the right to privacy. H... - Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning Can Affect Young Adults
Aug-7-09 Boca Raton, FL Talk of dentures and denture cream often brings to mind images of senior citizens—the people who are most often associated with tooth loss. So, it is natural that when it comes to denture cream poisoning, people would first think about how the problem affects senior citizens. However, the truth is that anyone, even young adults&mda... - Harrowing Survival of Oil Rig Accident Ends in Tragedy
Aug-7-09 Montrose, TX It was a horrendous oil rig accident that left 23-year-old Dennis Gurney enduring 40 painful surgeries over a 15-year period that still left him scarred for life. And even though he received a settlement from his employer that guaranteed he would never have to work again, life was not easy for Gurney. The lives of those injured and mai... - Study Links Avandia to Liver Failure
Aug-1-09 Seattle, WA A new study has reportedly found a link between Avandia and liver failure. The study, conducted by researchers from Public Citizen, a public advocacy group, involved a review of adverse events reported to the US Food and Drug Administration and found 11 deaths due to liver toxicity between 1997 and 2006. The study indicated the liver toxici... - Female Attorneys May Have the Edge in Yaz Suits
Aug-6-09 Cincinnati, OH: Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals is about to be slapped with a wave of lawsuits over its popular birth control pill. There are hundreds of reported cases of heart attack, stroke and blood clots in the heart and lungs among women who have being using Bayer's Yasmin or Yaz birth control pill . "This is going to be a very significant area o... - Unum Group Posts Second Quarter Profits
Aug-6-09 Chattanooga, TN The only reference to the past misdeeds of Unum life insurance and problems policyholders have had with Unum long-term disability was made not by Unum Provident, but by a financial analyst on the occasion of Unum's Q2 earnings report. Colin Devine, an analyst with Citigroup Global Markets, was quoted in the Chattanooga Times Free Pr... - Toronto Theatre Men Sentenced for Financial Fraud
Aug-6-09 Toronto, ON At one time they were the toast of Toronto and the International theatre scene. Yesterday, however, in the final act of a years-long financial fraud case the former front men of the long-defunct Livent theater production company were sentenced to a combined 13 years in prison for their roles in the demise of the company, and fraud worth a h... - Ground Beef Recalled Due to Salmonella Contamination
Aug-6-09 Washington, DC Over 400 tons of ground beef were recalled today when officials linked the meat to a salmonella foodborne illness outbreak. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that Beef Packers, Inc. of Fresno, California has recalled approximately 825,769 pounds of ground beef products linked to an o... - FDA Strengthens Warnings on Darvon and Darvocet
Aug-6-09 Rockville, MD The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has required the manufacturers of products containing propoxyphene (the generic name of Darvon) to strengthen the warnings about the risk of overdose with such products. The warning applies to pain medications, including Darvon and Darvocet . According to the FDA news release,... - Lost in Translation
Aug-5-09 Washington, D.C. To a Spanish speaker, a notorio publico and a notorio may read and sound like the same thing, but in fact there is a world of difference. Desperate for help and short on cash, many immigrants confuse the two terms--they think they are getting a low-cost lawyer when in fact they have found their way into the office of a notary public... - Summer the Season of Reckoning for Cipro
Aug-5-09 Washington, DC This appears to be the summer of anniversaries for Cipro, an antibiotic that has long been a concern for Cipro side effects , including ruptured tendon. Concern over the Cipro antibiotic goes all the way back to 1996 when Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader, first raised a red flag over the Cipro drug. I...