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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Frontrow Recalls Rechargeable Batteries
Overheating Incidents Reported About 41,000 NIMH AA Rechargeable Batteries distributed by Frontrow, CA, are being recalled because the batteries can rapidly overheat, posing a burn hazard to the user. The firm has received 4 reports of batteries overheating during use in wireless public announcement systems and microphones. No injuries have been re... - Tealight Candleholders Recalled Due to Fire Hazard
Property Damage Reported About 430 tealight candleholders are being recalled following a report of minor property damage caused when a tealight holder caught fire. This recall involves a wire formed tealight candleholder with ball feet. The sides have small and large round resin accents in amber and red. The holder holds up to 5 tealight candles (i... - Raptiva (efalizumab) Associated with Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Two US Patients Dead From PML Health Canada has issued a warning regarding the risk of serious adverse health effects, including Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML), occurring in patients receiving Raptiva as treatment for psoriasis. PML is a rare and sometimes fatal brain disorder, caused by the reactivation of a latent virus which result... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 3 of 3
Apr-14-09 PART ONE - PART TWO The prescribing of seven drugs, including two antipsychotics and five antidepressants, to treat OCD is a typical example of the profit-driven drugging that women snagged by the Mother's Act will face, but it's a far cry from the description Katherine wrote about regarding the comparatively minor treatment she received, when she st... - Southwest Pays $7.5 Million for Safety Violations
After months of wrangling to get the amount reduced, Southwest Airlines has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle safety violation charges brought the Federal Aviation Authority, which is $2.7 million less than originally ordered. Under the terms of the agreement Southwest has 2 years to pay the fines in 3 instalments. The fines were brought for safety... - Bianco Employees Get Their Overtime Pay
Hundreds of settlement checks were distributed today to workers who sued Michael Bianco Inc, alleging that they had been denied overtime pay or were docked wages while employed at the South End leather factory from January 2004 to March 2007. The plaintiffs received anywhere from $20 per check to $6,000. In November, Bianco settled the federal class act... - Seroquel Data on Diabetes Buried
Unsealed Emails from AstraZeneca Reveal Cover-Up An internal email from AstraZeneca (AZ) about its controversial a-typical antidepressant Seroquel, marketed as Quietiapine, allegedly shows that the company knew the drug could cause diabetes. According to one of the lawyers on the case, AZ not only deliberately avoided warning physicians about the risk... - Chantix Breaks the Nicotine Habit but also Breaks Families
Apr-30-09 Topeka, KS The prescription drug Chantix helps people break their smoking addiction, but it has also caused severe behavioral changes, from moodiness and insomnia to depression and even suicide. And it has broken families. "I am now in the process of a divorce, I have lost my job due to a loss of focus and depression and have lost the custody of my daugh... - Peanut Butter Recall - It's Deja Vu all Over Again
Apr-29-09 Blakely, GA The current Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) peanut butter / peanut product recall is eerily similar to the ConAgra / Peter Pan peanut butter recall of 2007. So why did the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) fail to learn from the prior foodborne illness outbreak? Just look at the similarities: Both involve peanut manufacturing... - FDA Warns Consumers About Serious, Irreversible Side Effects with Acid Reflux Medicine
Metoclopramide to Get Black Box Warning The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that manufacturers of metoclopramide, a drug used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, must add a boxed warning to their drug labels about the risk of its long-term or high-dose use. Chronic use of metoclopramide has been linked to tardive dyskinesia, whi... - SSRI Birth Defects: Message On A Bottle
Apr-25-09 Huntington Beach, CA Despite the warnings about the use of SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy, the message doesn't appear to be getting out. Women continue to come forward with devastating accounts of what they believe to be SSRI birth defects . Cristine (not her real name), for example, had been taking SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor)... - Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads Failing Patients
A new report indicates that the Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads may be failing at a higher rate than previously thought. Two cardiac specialists who conducted a study on the leads found that the failure of the Sprint Fidelis leads might be increasing over time--causing serious problems for patients who had the leads implanted. According to the study, t... - Settlements and Verdicts: Bicycle Accident.
Bicycle Accident. A $9.9 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Dr. Fred Epstein, 67, a Greenwich neurosurgeon who was severely injured on Sept. 30, 2001 when he was thrown from his bicycle while riding on a town street. (Sep-01-04) [ NBC 30 ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawye... - New Study Drops the Coffin Lid on Asbestos
Apr-17-09 Reno, NV Implausible as it may seem, if there was ever any doubt as to the danger of asbestos exposure, that doubt has been put to rest with the release of a new study appearing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine . Asbestos mesothelioma is but one deadly result in an environment that carried a whopping 95 percent risk of developing asbestos canc... - The Spice of Life is Not Salmonella—The Spice Recall
Apr-16-09 Union City, CA Spices are supposed to improve the taste of your food, not improve your chances of getting sick. But that's exactly what is happening with a line of spices marketed under the 'Lian How; and 'Uncle Chen' brands—products that have been caught up in an ever-widening salmonella spice recall . Salmonella is anything but the spice of li... - Forensics Expert Discusses Chinese Drywall
Apr-16-09 Lake Forest, CA "Regardless of what people say about US building developers and contractors, for the most part they didn't buy Chinese drywall to save money but ordered it simply for supply and demand," says Doug Derry, field services manager, CBI Forensics. And there was a lot of demand after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. "Shipping records show that sin... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 2 of 3
Apr-10-09 More Democrats than Republicans are supporting the Mother's Act. The increased campaign funding to Democrats may well explain this turn of events. For the last eight election cycles the pharmaceutical industry has contributed far more to Republicans than Democrats. In the 2006 cycle the percentage was 28% to Democrats and 70% to Republicans, according to the... - Raptiva Risks Outweighed Benefits
Apr-14-09 Washington, DC On April 8, 2009 Genentech Inc., the manufacturer of Raptiva (efalizumab) announced it has voluntarily withdrawn its psoriasis drug from the US market. The decision is based on the association of Raptiva and PML or progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, a rare and usually fatal disease of the central nervous system. Sadly, the withd... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 1 of 3
Apr-7-09 Motherhood has fallen prey to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother's Act becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will no doubt increase. Congress has rightfully refused to pass this bill for eight years. The official title is currently the "Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to... - Shoulder Pain Pumps Never Approved by the FDA for Joints
Apr-8-09 Washington, DC The the shoulder pain pump has been vilified for inducing serious shoulder injury following shoulder surgery. Here's the rub: the pump itself is not the villain. How it is used is another matter, and your doctor or surgeon isn't the bad guy, either. Allegedly, the fault lay with the manufacturers who tried to pull a fast one. Externa...