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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Chantix: "This Whole Thing Petrifies Me"
Mar-1-08 Port Charlotte, FL Tasha M. says she is still a little scatterbrained after her experience with Chantix . She says that she knows what she wants to say but she has problems expressing her thoughts. However, she is clear that she wants to get Chantix off the market. "I tried everything to help me quit smoking," Tasha says. "I had been smoking for 20 y... - Faulty Railing Results in Crib Recall
Mar-1-08 Washington, DC: A massive crib recall was issued on Thursday by safety officials and they warned parents that they should not put their babies in their beds with soft bedding such as pillows due to the risk of suffocation. A total of 24,000 cribs made in Indonesia were recalled due to a high risk of children falling out . Imported by Munire Furniture... - LA Newspaper Violates Labor Laws
Mar-1-08 Los Angeles, CA On Friday, one of Los Angeles' largest Chinese-language newspapers was ordered to pay 200 employees millions of dollars because they were denied overtime pay for years . In addition to the compensation ordered to the employees by a federal judge, the company is also subject to various labor law violations in California. The Chinese Da... - Hospital Hit with Loss of Medicare and Medicaid Payments
Mar-1-08 Clyde, NC: Litigation has been brought against Haywood Regional Medical Center by former employee Dr. Aloha Bryson. The doctor was pressured to resign for presenting allegations that two patients died due to improper care and four others received improper care as well during October and November 2007. Dr. Aloha Bryson has had a degree of difficulty loca... - Complaint Filed Against Cryocath for Unfair Trade Practices
Mar-1-08 San Diego, CA: A company that creates medical devices that are used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias announced yesterday that a complaint has been filed with the United States International Trade Commission against CryoCath Technologies Inc. The complaint states that CryoCath has engaged in unfair trade practices by infringing on a number of paten... - Potential Baxter Heparin Death Rate Rises
Feb-29-08 Waunakee, WI In a dramatic turn of events over the last 24 hours, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now saying that as many as 21 deaths may be linked to potentially tainted blood thinners, and Baxter International —having recalled all lots of its multi-dose vials last month—is now recalling virtually all of its heparin products... - California Labor Law: We were Silicone Valley SlaveGirls
Feb-29-08 Auburn, CA Because Janet Glenn was hired as a salaried manager for the retailer Anne Taylor, she understood that she was exempt from overtime. That was 20 years ago. If she was working in those same conditions today, the company would be violating the California Labor Law . First of all, Glenn was not exempt and therefore entitled to overtime. The la... - U of C Study: Botox Spreads into Neighboring Tissue
Feb-28-08 Calgary, AB: Research conducted at the University of Calgary in Canada has found that Botox seems to have a mind of its own when injected into the body. This means that it is not as controllable as was previously thought because it spreads into tissues and muscles near the injection site. These findings come as a result of a study involving 60 anima... - 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. ... - "Kugel Mesh has been a Nightmare," says Patient from his Hospital Bed
Feb-28-08 Pickering, ON Jeff Jones was in the ER at a Toronto-area hospital when he spoke with LawyersAndSettlements. He had come in that morning on his doctor's advice after vomiting all night, and was staying on while awaiting a previously scheduled surgery two days later. It was all part of a long, painful journey that began when his defective Kugel Mesh hern... - More PPH Victims Filing Lawsuits
Mar-5-08 Seattle, WA Some people who have been diagnosed with PPH as a result of taking diet drugs such as fen-phen think they are too late to file a PPH class action lawsuit . But that's not the case. (Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories made Pondimin -also known as fenfluramine, an appetite depressant that is the ''fen'' in fen-phen and distributed a similar drug, Re... - Law Firms Announce Filing of Nationwide Class Action on Behalf of Purchasers of ChoiceDek® Decking Products
Feb-27-08 Seattle, WA: A consortium of law firms announce that they filed a nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of all purchasers of Weyerhaeuser ChoiceDek ® decking products. The Plaintiffs filed their suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle against Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY) (ChoiceDek® seller); Adva... - Bayer Claims New Studies on Trasylol are Flawed
Feb-27-08 Atlanta, GA: In a statement issued by Bayer AG this week, they allege that two recent studies regarding their drug Trasylol are flawed. But a consumer advocacy group called Public Citizen's Health Research Group, has made statements that they believe the studies conducted on the drug are convincing enough that the drug is a danger to those who receive... - Is it Safer in the Air or on the Runway?
Feb-27-08 Washington, DC Yet another pair of planes have clipped each other's wings on the runway. The latest incident of an on-ground plane crash occurred February 24th at Washington's Dulles Airport. The right wing of a Shuttle America Embraer 170 jet hit the left wingtip of a United Airlines Airbus 319. No injuries were reported among the 66 people aboa... - Does California Labor Law protect Older Workers?
Feb-27-08 Simi Valley, CA: Donna, aged 63, filed an age discrimination complaint against her employer when part of her job was given to a "young kid." A few months later, instead of getting her job of 30 years back, she was told it was eliminated. And so was she. Her employer should get acquainted with the California labor law . Donna thinks that the worst par... - NJ College Sued by Parents of Dead Student
Mar-4-08 Trenton, NJ: Two years ago, the body of a 19-year-old student was found in a Pennsylvania landfill after an intensive four-week search had yielded no results. On March 3, 2008, the parents of that student filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the college for not keeping their trash compacting system secure. No damages have been specified in regards to... - Trasylol: "Making Everybody Scared"
Feb-26-08 Como, MS Christine S. says she and her husband watched the 60 Minutes Trasylol article in shock. When the report ended, she says they looked at each other and said, "That sounds like Mother, doesn't it?" "Mother" was actually Christine's (not her real name) mother-in-law, Sarah (not her real name), who died in 2005 at age 82 after being diagnosed wi... - Nadar's Public Citizen Seeking Black Box Warning for Botox
Feb-26-08 Los Angeles, CA: Many are willing to go great lengths to achieve beauty, which even means gambling with their lives. With new evidence that Botox allegedly causes paralysis and even death in some of those who swear by the toxic boost, those who religiously receive the injections are said to be risking their lives to look good. Such public figures as... - Palladone
On July 13, 2005, the drug manufacturer of Palladone, Purdue Pharma, agreed to the FDA's request to pull the drug completely from the US market because of possible deaths that may occur when combined with the use of alcohol. Palladone, approved in September 2004 for patients with chronic moderate to severe pain, is a formulation of the controlled... - 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...