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Dec-17-13 San Antonio, TX When it comes to discussions about male conditions, one topic that sometimes hits a nerve is that of male baldness. Some men, in attempting to deal with the issue, have turned to medications such as Propecia . But in lawsuits being filed, some of those men now say they had no idea about the risk of Propecia side effects, including a repo... - Opening Statements for Third Fosamax Trial Expected November 1st
Oct-23-10 New York, NY There have been about 1,000 lawsuits filed in the US alleging Fosamax osteonecrosis , which is a condition popularly known as dead jaw. However, there are other issues related to Fosamax. To that end the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to consumers October 13th with regard to bisphosphonates (Fosamax among them). T... - Queseria Chipilo Recalls Cheese Products
Washington, DC: Queseria Chipilo is recalling a number of cheese products with date codes up to and including September 26, 2010 Fresco and November 25, 2010 Oaxaca, because the cheese products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frai... - Used Drilling Mud Dumped in California’s Central Valley
Dec-13-13 Rancho Cordova, CA Toxic drilling mud has the potential to harm more people than the mud engineer who comes into direct contact with the substance. And while the drilling rig employee carries the most risk of inhaling floating asbestos fibers when drilling mud is mixed from its original powdered form, it’s what happens after the drilling mud is s... - Wright County Egg Expands Nationwide Recall
Washington, DC: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported that chicken feed used at two Iowa farms is associated with the outbreak of salmonella in the US and the recall of more than a half a billion contaminated eggs. The FDA is currently investigating the situation to determine whether the bacteria originated in the chicken feed or arr... - Medical Tubing Errors Leading to Adverse Events Including Death
New York, NY: In-hospital mix-ups between feeding tubes and tubes that enter veins are linked to adverse events, including death, in some 16 percent of hospitalized patients, according to a 2006 hospital survey, the New York Times is reporting. Apparently, the problem of tube mix-ups is not new, and happens because much of the tubing used in... - FDA Warns Consumers to Avoid TimeOut Capsules
Washington, DC: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to take TimeOut Capsules because it contains an active drug ingredient that can dangerously lower blood pressure. The product is marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement. TimeOut is labeled as "100% natural" and consumers may mistakenly assume the... - No Excuse for marketing Ace Inhibitors to Pregnant Women
Oct-20-06 Waltham, MA In the wake of a study published in June 2006, in The New England Journal of Medicine found a higher rate of birth defects in infants born to mothers who filled prescriptions for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACE inhibitors), during the first trimester of pregnancy. The FDA advised women to reconsider the use of those drugs b... - FDA Warns of Possible Dangers from Portable Foot-Tanning Device
Washington, DC: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about the risk of ultraviolet radiation overdose with the Tootsie Tanner portable foot tanning device. Use of the tanning device can lead to an overdose of ultraviolet radiation because its labeling recommends an improper duration of exposure to radiation and the device... - Medical Negligence a Case of Knowing Right, from Left
Nov-30-08 Davenport, IA Medical negligence cases are a frustration for everybody. For the doctor, it's an affront to his or her reputation; for the patient, it represents a feeling of betrayal by the medical community, an entity that we trust implicitly with our health. But the world is far from perfect, and when medical malpractice negligence happens, a medical n... - Pesticides Linked to ADHD
A recent study shows that exposure in the womb to widely used pesticides known as organophosphates (e.g. malathion) may increase the chance that children, especially boys, will develop attention problems (ADHD) by age five. According to the report published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers found that the risk of attention diso... - 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... - Paxil Side Effects Can Include Double Risk of Pre-Term Labor
Jun-15-12 Nashville, TN On the surface it's an alarming finding, and while other factors may be at play the concern remains that for each SSRI prescription an expectant mom fills during the second trimester of her pregnancy, her odds of going into premature labor can double. Such is this latest concern over Paxil side effects —a popular antidepressant in th... - Spine Surgery performed much too Often
Dec-23-06 New Jersey: For senior citizens, the chances of receiving spine surgery, along with the serious complications that often follow, depends on where a patient lives, according to researchers from Dartmouth Medical School in the November 2006 medical journal Spine. For the study, the researchers analyzed data on lower back (lumbar) surgery among Medicare re... - Egg Recall Legal News and Lawsuit Information
On the heels of a voluntary recall totalling 380 million eggs last week by Wright County Egg, Hillandale Farms of New Hampton, Iowa said it was also recalling 170 million shell eggs produced since April that were sent to 14 states in the Midwest and West. The eggs could be linked to foodborne bacteria salmonella. Hillendale Farms confirmed laboratory-conf... - All Marketed Sibutramine Drugs Voluntarily Withdrawn in Canada
Oct-13-10 Ottawa, ON Further to Health Canada's October 8, 2010, communication on the voluntary recall by Abbott Laboratories of Meridia (the brand name for the weight-loss drug sibutramine), Health Canada is updating healthcare practitioners and Canadians with respect to the two generic forms of sibutramine drugs authorized in Canada: Apo-sibutramine and Novo-s... - URGENT Nationwide Frozen Mamey Fruit Pulp Recall - Fruit Linked to Typhoid Fever Outbreak
Washington, DC: An investigation by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and state partners showed an epidemiologic link between an ongoing outbreak of Salmonella Typhi and frozen mamey fruit pulp sold under the La Nuestra brand by Montalvan Sales Inc. Ontario, CA, and under the Goya brand by Goya Foods Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey. The CDC reports... - FDA Reviewing Possible Increased Cardiovascular Risk with Stalevo
Washington, DC: The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified healthcare professionals that it is evaluating clinical trial data that suggest patients taking Stalevo (a combination of carbidopa/levodopa and entacapone) may be at an increased risk for cardiovascular events (heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular death) compared to those... - Oil Companies Face Asbestos Claims
Oct-10-10 Dallas, TX Texaco, Chevron USA and BP all face asbestos claims from employees or their family members who allege asbestos injury. Exposure to asbestos has been linked to mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer. All three conditions are potentially fatal and have led to asbestos lawsuits. One lawsuit was filed by the widow and children of a man who... - Asbestos Cancer and Lung Cancer Connected for Former Kent Smokers
Dec-4-13 Greensboro, NC Columnist Joe Nocera writing in the New York Times December 3 came down hard on lung cancer lawsuits that claim exposure to asbestos, spinning lung cancer into asbestos cancer . His position is that with the dangers of smoking well-known, successfully litigating lung cancer cases is a tough go, so lawyers have attempted to find a connec...