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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- Viacom & Kellogg to be Sued for Marketing Junk Food
Jan-19-06 Parents and advocates are suing Viacom (one of the largest entertainment companies in the world) and Kellogg, to prevent them from marketing junk food to young children. The plaintiffs allege that these two companies knowingly and directly harm children's health by marketing mainly food products high in sugar, saturated and trans fat, or salt, and mainly... - Tainted Heparin: Just What Is In It?
Mar-31-08 Washington, DC Now that the mysterious substance found in tainted batches of heparin has been identified, attention now turns as to what role the counterfeit had to play in the suspected deaths of 19 patients potentially attributed to tainted heparin, and whether or not it was the heparin mimic that was the basis for as many as 700 adverse reaction reports... - Avandia: Meant to Help but Killed Instead
Mar-30-08 Edmonton, AB Early in August 2006, Vivian's mother went to the hospital in Edmonton to have some cancer tests done. However, when she arrived the doctors noticed that the left side of her body was swollen. They took her vital signs and noticed her heart was racing. She was admitted to hospital that day, and on further testing the doctors discovered that he... - Brazilian Diet Pills: you could lose more than weight
Jan-16-06 A serious warning about Brazilian Diet Pills has been issued by the [ FDA ] to consumers. The pills have been found to contain active drug ingredients that are found in controlled substances. Dietary supplements are not controlled by the FDA, so regulating both ingredients and consumers for possible side effects is difficult. The Miami Herald reported thr... - Attorney Stuart N. Ratzan on a Challenge to Florida's Medical Negligence Cap
Mar-28-08 Miami, FL Stuart N. Ratzan is a managing shareholder of Ratzan & Rubio, a trial firm whose practice is focused on catastrophic negligence and commercial disputes. He is a 1987 cum laude graduate of Amherst College and received his J.D., cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1991. His practice includes personal injury and commercial litiga... - Trasylol: A Child's Life Changed
Mar-28-08 Clayton, IN Anthony Moreno's daughter was born with a challenging birth defect that required multiple complex surgeries to correct. This resilient little girl came through the procedures and seemed to be doing well until things took a turn for the worse. Now he wants to find out if Trasylol from Bayer was the cause. It certainly sounds like it. Moreno... - Avandia: From Healthy to Heart Attack
Mar-27-08 Breckenridge MI Colin H. has type 2 diabetes. He has had diabetes for more than 10 years, and up until recently he controlled his blood sugar levels well with diet and exercise. So well, in fact, he didn't need any medications. But during the past couple of years his blood sugar levels started to increase slightly, so in February 2007 his doctor put him on... - Asbestos: One Man's Story
Mar-26-08 Stainforth, UK He may live half a world away, but Dennis Beddoes is a classic example of not only the health hazards of asbestos , but also of the typical delay governing the onset of asbestos-related diseases such as cancer, asbestosis and asbestos mesothelioma. The 70-year-old retired shipbuilder from Stainforth, England suddenly developed a persiste... - Grieving Daughter talks about Celebrex
Mar-24-08 Montreal, QC: "Whatever comes of me telling this story, my main motivation is that I want to save other people from taking drugs like Celebrex ," says Andrea Whittaker. "My mother was misled when it came to Celebrex. If my mom had known the warning signs, if she had been given the option, she would never have taken it." Whittaker's mother died in Octobe... - California Labor Law: Is Sick Time Covered?
Mar-22-08 Banos, CA Diane Martinez is still working at Kaiser hospital, even though she has chronic, persistent asthma and severe back problems. "I know they are going to fire me and my union won't step in to help," she says. If Martinez is fired while under doctor's orders, this may be a violation of the California labor law . "Kaiser hospital doesn't want to k... - Recalled Icy Hot Patch: Burning Questions
Mar-20-08 Chattanooga, TN: The TV ads featuring Shaquille O'Neal made the Icy Hot Pain patches look slick and convenient. "For pain across your whole back, Icy Hot has it covered." And why not? Rather than struggle with creams and ointments, the simple application of a patch, which initially provides a cooling sensation, followed by soothing heat, sounds blissfull... - Tainted Heparin: Counterfeiting is Suspected
Mar-20-08 Chicago, IL While scientists close in on the identity of a mystery contaminant that's been showing up in tainted heparin from China , one thing is becoming increasingly clear: that the mystery substance was mixed in with the real thing to increase yield. "A child could tell you it's counterfeiting," observed Dr. Jawed Fareed, professor of pharmacology... - Bayer Now Facing 68 Trasylol Lawsuits
Mar-19-08 Los Angeles, CA: A number of lawsuits have been filed against Bayer AG for the drug Trasylol that was used in patients undergoing heart bypass surgery from 1993 until it was voluntarily suspended by Bayer in November 2007. Before the drug was taken off of the market, there were 19 lawsuits worldwide claiming that the drug had injured or killed those wh... - Bextra: Two Women's Stories
Jan-3-06 Sueanne Gatto from Port Charlotte, Florida was prescribed Bextra when she broke her shoulder and again for carpal tunnel syndrome. All together, she was taking Bextra for more than two years, until she suffered a stroke in April, 2005. She is 50 years old. "I woke up one morning and couldn't see, I couldn't even find the phone to call anyone," says Gatto... - Dangerous Drugs Report
Dec-30-05 [ Consumer Reports ] has recently identified 12 common prescription drugs that may have serious side effects, including heart attacks, certain cancers and even death. It says that "tens of millions of people may have been exposed to adverse side effects" from these drugs, which account for more than 266 million prescriptions in the U.S. and almost $25 billi... - Depo Provera lawsuit
Dec-29-05 Four women in Canada have filed a class action lawsuit against Pfizer Canada and Pfizer Inc. seeking relief of general damages for the sum of $500,000,000. The plaintiffs have all been long-term users of Depo-Provera, an injectable method of birth control, and they have all been diagnosed with bone mass density (BMS) problems including fractures, hip and spi... - Go Figure: Your Wireless Implantable Defibrillator Can be Hacked
Mar-13-08 Washington, DC Taking a page right out of James Bond, a soon-to-be-published research paper analyzing the sophistication of implantable medical devices (IMD) and cardiac defibrillators (ICD) sheds new light on the capacity of such devices to be programmed and adjusted from outside the body by a medical professional, presumably your doctor. The bad n... - Heparin: Tainted Product, Confusing Labels and the Hollywood Factor
Mar-13-08 Hollywood, CA In the spring it was poisoned pet food, then tainted toothpaste. In the summer and fall, lead-laced toys for tots. Now, the latest word that appears to summarize problems with imports from China, is heparin . Heparin is a blood thinner made from the intestines of pigs, and in the last several weeks heparin has been all over the news. In D... - Sprint Fidelis Case Highlights Industry and FDA Failures
Mar-12-08 Waltham, MA In an article in the March 6 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. William H. Maisel says that a flawed medical device approval process at the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and deliberate foot dragging by Medtronic Inc. made the Sprint Fidelis lead debacle far worse than necessary. Maisel says, "The large numbe... - Whistleblower Was Asked 10,579 Questions in Court
Mar-11-08 Toronto, ON: Joanna Gualtieri claimed that the Department of Foreign Affairs wasted money by not spending it properly in the 1990s and now the lawyers for the federal government are trying to prove that she was not a victim of harassment when she made the whistleblower claims years ago. In court, lawyers have already asked her 10,579 questions in which s...