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Mar-28-08 Ottawa, ON It was a week ago today that B. Braun Medical announced a recall of its heparin products , after tests concluded that a similar contamination affecting heparin products marketed and sold by Baxter International, had invaded its product as well. However, the company is being criticized for keeping its heparin products on the market while te... - DePuy Orthopaedics Pulls Metal Hip Replacement
Mar-11-10 New York, NY DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, announced this week that it is withdrawing its artificial hip implant. The action follows reports of the implant - known as the ASR - failing on patients, and generating metallic debris which can cause additional health problems such as inflammatory responses, muscle and soft tissue damage. ... - Lead Paint Poisoning, Jury awards boy $6 million personal injury settlement
Baltimore, MD: (Jan-23-08) Chantey Holmes, the mother of 8-year-old Antonio Ross Jr., brought a lawsuit against Garden Village Realty Corp. and property manager Regional Management Inc., claiming they ignored her complaints about the condition of the paint in her apartment and leaks in the roof and ceiling. The suit also saw the 8-year-old boy allege that... - Energy Drinks may need Strict Controls
Jan-8-06 Like other stimulants to the central nervous system, energy drinks give you a high. And like addicting drugs, this buzz is temporary; the high is of course followed by a low which often leads to consuming too much, trying to get back to the "high". Another problem arises when these energy drinks are mixed with alcohol. Health Canada has reported four i... - Patients Remain At Risk - Despite the Baxter Heparin Recall
Mar-21-08 Boston MA Dialysis patients should beware--they are more exposed to heparin than any other single group of patients in the US, and remain at serious risk for allergic reactions to tainted product, despite the national recall of Baxter heparin. According to Doctor Ajay Singh, the Clinical Director and Renal Division Director of Dialysis Services at B... - Patients Allege Actos Side Effects
Nov-29-11 Spokane, WA For patients whose diabetes is not controlled by diet and exercise alone, the risk of Actos side effects might seem minor compared to the risks associated with diabetes. Despite the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewing a possible link between Actos and bladder cancer, the benefits may still outweigh the risks for some patients. F... - Mold Makes Students Sick, Teacher Sues
Mar-16-08 Suffolk, VA: A fourth-grade teacher for Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Suffolk filed a lawsuit with the assistance of her lawyer that accuses the city and the school of failure to address the dangerous levels of mold within the school. She alleges that the mold problem at the elementary school has made her and some of her students ill. The dam... - Cedardale Inc. pays $20,000 fine for wastewater violations at children's park
Worcester, MA: (Jan-04-08) Martha Coakley, State Attorney General, brought charges against Haverhill-based Cedardale Inc., alleging that the operator of the largest health club facility in New England discharged chlorine into the Merrimack River. The suit stemmed from a complaint filed, related to an incident in the summer of 2004, when Cedardale was accus... - Could a Yasmin / Yaz Recall Be in the Offing?
Feb-23-10 Indianapolis, IN The incredible number of lawsuits involving Yasmin birth control has generated talk about a potential recall. Even so, in the face of 25,000 potential lawsuits and censure from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for overstating the effectiveness of Yaz / Yasmin, manufacturer Bayer continues to sell the product. The Indianapo... - FDA Denies Avastin Treatment for Breast Cancer
Nov-19-11 Washington, DC The FDA has denied Roche, the manufacturer of Avastin , to use its top selling-cancer drug as a treatment for breast cancer therapy. The decision has ended a year-long battle between Roche, the FDA and health professionals, who argued whether Avastin’s benefits outweighed the risks. In June 2011, an advisory panel of “outsi... - 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... - Illinois Employment Lawyers Earn Railroad Employee $80,000 in Back Wages
Feb-19-10 Chicago, IL In a move that could have widespread ramifications for Illinois employee rights , the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has awarded a former railroad employee more than $80,000 in back wages, compensatory damages and attorney fees. The award stems from investigation into the dismissal of an unname... - FDA Warning on Transvaginal Mesh Sparks Call for TVM Marketing Changes
Nov-17-11 Oklahoma City, OK The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning on urogynecologic surgical mesh implants in July, which included the Avaulta mesh implant . The mesh implants have reportedly caused severe pain and complications in the women that used it. According to a report at KOCO.com , a group of women from Oklahoma had been administ... - Public Reputation, Meijer Inc. pays town treasurer $3 million settlement for defamation during a state election
Grand Rapids, MI: (Dec-27-07) Grand Traverse Township Treasurer William Boltres brought a lawsuit against Meijer Inc., alleging that the company damaged his public reputation, health, and peace of mind. The suit claimed that Meijer paid a public relations firm, Seyferth Spaulding Tennyson Inc., at least $30,000 in an effort to remove the Board of Trustees... - Chantix: Could Quitting Smoking Be Any Worse?
Mar-3-08 Washington, DC It's not hard to imagine why a drug like Chantix is so fully and completely embraced—at least in the beginning. Smoking is a health hazard, not to mention the social stigma. Given the horrendous cost of long-term health care, smokers are trying to prolong their lives and prevent potential financial ruin by getting off tobacco and nic... - General Mills Meat Pizza E. Coli Recall
General Mills Operations is voluntarily recalling approximately 3.3 million pounds of frozen meat pizza products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and may be linked to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses. Jeno's and Totino's frozen meat pizza products were recalled after being linked to an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 in 10 states. T... - Grandfather's Zimmer Hip Implant Was "Killing Him"
Nov-15-11 Livingston, MT Carrie says that her grandfather suffered years of pain after getting a Zimmer Hip implant, and that he was much worse off after his hip replacement. Even revision surgery didn't help—perhaps irreparable damage was already done. "My grandpa had a Zimmer distal hip implant in October 1996, according to his medical report in front... - Nevada Clinic Re-used Syringes—40,000 Potentially Exposed
Mar-2-08 Las Vegas, NV There are 40,000 people today who have just found out, or may soon find out, that they may have been handed a death sentence by an outpatient clinic in Las Vegas, after potentially contaminated syringes were re-used , injecting the possibility for hepatitis C . After six patients of the clinic were diagnosed with hepatitis C last year,... - Yasmin/Yaz Lawsuits Gaining Momentum, Says Attorney
Nov-14-11 Dallas, TX For the past three years, attorney and physician Dr. Shezad Malik has been working on Yasmin/Yaz lawsuits and his firm is involved in the federal MDL litigation which has been centralized in the Southern District of Illinois, in East St. Louis. "The first bellwether trials, which will take place in January 2012, will start with the pulmonary... - Money Mismanagement, American Dental Partners agrees to pay dentists $130 million settlement
Minneapolis, MN: (Dec-27-07) A group of Twin Cities dentists brought charges against American Dental Partners, a Massachusetts health care company, alleging that the company, brought in to handle the administrative side of the business in 1996, overstepped its bounds with a number of moves, starting in 2004. Over 115 dentists claimed that the company misma...