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Sort by date 1,824 pages found matching bank of america- California Labor Lawsuit: Help for Latino workers
May-18-07 Los Angeles, CA California labor law plaintiffs have just received a great boost from activists.The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and civil rights lawyer Bill Lann Lee announced May 16 that they are both joining a California labor law class action filed by more than one thousand construction workers, most of whom are Latinos,... - Asbestos Lawsuits keep Rolling On
May-14-07 Redondo Beach, CA Ready for some more bad news about asbestos ? Apparently, asbestos poisoning is starting to strike people down at an earlier age. Why this is happening is unclear. "An increasing number of patients suffering from asbestos-related diseases are now younger than in previous reports," reads a May 9/2007 press release from the Asbestos Dis... - PPH: A Ticking Time Bomb
May-12-07 ColledgeVille, MA Talk about something coming back to haunt you... Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) is a condition resulting in abnormally high blood pressure sometimes brought on by the ingestion of certain drugs - some of them pulled from the market a decade ago. And yet upwards of ten years after you may have been prescribed a then-legitimate a... - Unum Group Unfair and Unjust
May-9-07 Chattanooga, TN Unum Group CEO Tom Watjen knew he had his work cut out for him in 2003, when he took over a company that came with a fair amount of baggage. Over the years, the enterprise known as Unum Provident had lost marks for being arrogant, given to undisciplined pricing, and a not-so-great reputation for delivering on benefits. Part of the fix... - Business as Usual for Permax Distributor
May-9-07 Aliso Viejo, CA Permax distributor Valeant Pharmaceuticals International reported its first quarter results on May 1 of 2007, showing an increase in revenues, but making no mention of its voluntary agreement with the FDA to withdraw Permax from the market. Permax is the Parkinson's disease drug now associated with the potential for serious heart valve... - Premium Pain: Are Insurance Companies Breaking the Law?
May-8-07 Bloomington, IL State Farm places a premium on honesty. A giant among insurance firms, the Bloomington, Illinois company employs nearly 70,000 people and boasts that they insure "more cars than any other insurer in North America." "Our success is built on a foundation of shared values—quality service and relationships, mutual trust, integrity an... - Asbestos: It may be Lurking inside of You
May-2-07 Washington, DC Watch what happens whenever asbestos is discovered inside a building: people scatter, the building is closed down, and workers swarm over the site in full masks and heavy clothing to deal with the evil stuff. It's a death sentence in powdered form. We know that now. How society managed NOT to know about the deadly effects of asbestos e... - Asthma Medication could Stop You Cold
Apr-21-07 Washington, DC: Americans suffering from asthma may be worse off after taking the drug Xolair , according to a recent warning by the United States Food and Drug Administration. On February 21st 2007, the FDA recommended that Genentech Inc., the makers of Xolair, include a black box alert on the product packaging that warns of a severe, and potentially... - J&J Concealed Dangers of Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch
Apr-16-07 Washington, DC: Tens of millions of prescriptions have been written for Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Evra birth control patch since it arrived on the market in 2002, and medical experts say the patch has harmed thousands of young women of childbearing age. In September 2006, the FDA warned that use of the patch, made by the Ortho-McNeil division of J&J,... - Patients Diagnosed Schizophrenic and Bipolar to boost Seroquel Sales
Apr-11-07 Washington, DC: For over a decade, drug makers have been influencing doctors to diagnose patients, especially those covered by public health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, with mental illnesses to justify the over-prescribing of the new class of drugs known as "atypical" antipsychotics. For instance, Seroquel , marketed by AstraZeneca, is on... - Crusading Lawyer Demands Congressional Action against Long-Term- Care Insurers
Apr-5-07 Chicago, IL: Imagine being in your 70's and 80's and having your health fail to the extent that you need expensive long-term care in a special facility. But you take some consolation in the fact that you've been paying long-term-care insurance premiums for a number of years. At least you and your family won't be burdened with tens of thousands of dollars... - Doctors Ignore Black Box Warnings On SSRIs
Apr-2-07 Washington, DC: The FDA has issued numerous public health advisories and black box warnings over the past several years about the increased risk of suicidality associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants, but many doctors ignore them. In October 2004, the FDA added a black box warning about an increased risk of suicidality i... - Another ReNu Lens Solution Product Recalled
Mar-30-07 Chicago, IL: Following the recall of ReNu with MoistureLoc , Bausch & Lomb has announced it is recalling certain lots of ReNu MultiPlus contact lens solution. The company decided to recall the product after receiving reports of discolored lens solution. The ReNu MultiPlus lots are being recalled because they contained a high level of trace iron that co... - Veterans Affairs a National Failure
Mar-6-07 Washington, DC: Walter Reed Medical Center may not be a Veterans Affairs (VA) center but problems at the hospital highlight the treatment that some veterans receive when they return home from active duty, including medical malpractice, poor living conditions and lost files. Unfortunately, the recent problems at Walter Reed Medical Center are not new b... - Best Kept Secret - SSRIs Do Not Work
Mar-3-07 Washington, DC: The medicalization of distress has led to a dramatic rise in the use of antidepressants, however it is questionable whether patients are being told that in controlled clinical trials the drugs barely outperformed a placebo, says Jonathan Leo, Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy, Lincoln Memorial University, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Med... - Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Sale of Zyprexa
Feb-27-07 Washington, DC: On February 23, 2007, a new grass roots advocacy group issued a press release to rally support for attorney, Jim Gottstein, in his legal battle with Eli Lilly over his role in providing secret company documents obtained in litigation to the media to alert the public about the health risks associated with Zyprexa that were kept hidden si... - High Death Rate Reported With Bayer's Trasylol
Feb-17-07 Washington, DC: For over a year, Bayer has been under fire over the drug Trasylol , and now Dr Dennis Mangano, the lead author of new study in the February 7, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association, says the drug may be responsible for 10,000 deaths over five years. Trasylol (aprotinin) was FDA approved for sale in the US in 1993, as an anti... - America Online services: Still Difficult to Cancel
Feb-4-07 Orlando, FL If you have ever found yourself frustrated by trying to cancel your online services, you are not alone. A recent report in PC World magazine listed the 13 worst companies for online cancellation procedures. Among those on the list were AOL (America Online), Classmates.com, NetZero, and Napster.com. Reports at Consumer Affairs.com say that... - Eli Lilly The Habitual Offender
Jan-25-07 Indianapolis, IN: The revelations that Eli Lilly concealed the side effects of Zyprexa and promoted the drug for unapproved uses is not newly discovered misconduct. It is a persistent pattern of conduct indicative of a nasty habit that needs breaking. After the secret company documents were leaked to the press last month by attorney, Jim Gottstein,... - Zyprexa Judge decides which Journalists have First Amendment Rights
Jan-16-07 Washington, DC The judge issuing injunctions in the Eli Lilly- Zyprexa -Documents case has decided that reporters at the New York Times enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment but that other reporters and media outlets do not. The secret documents at the center of this hailstorm were provided to the New York Times, and several other journalis...