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Feb-8-08 Akron, OH Tim Villar, age 38, was prescribed the diabetes drug Avandia to control diabetes 2. It helped lower his blood sugar count but Villar's doctor said it wasn't low enough. Worse, he was born with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) but it never bothered him until his second year on Avandia. Now Villar is worried that he might suffer a heart attack due t... - FDA Estimates Approximately 83,000 Heart Attacks caused by Avandia
Feb-7-08 Rockville, MD: A report released by the Senate Finance Committee in November 2007, stated that an analysis conducted by the FDA that was presented at the safety panel meeting on July 30, 2007 says that approximately 83,000 people suffered heart attacks as a result of taking Avandia. The report that is called, "The Intimidation of Dr. John Buse and the D... - Nursing Home Nurse Accused of Abusing Patients
Feb-6-08 Sandusky, OH: A nurse has been accused and sued by a nursing home resident's family for allegedly raping a patient who is partially paralyzed and abusing approximately 13 other patients. John Riems, a former night shift nurse has been accused by a family for mentally and physically abusing their father. It was when Reims was charged two weeks ago in... - Double Whammy: Overtime without Pay leads to Termination
Feb-5-08 Oakland, CA Henry Adams worked as a program manager in the IT department at Kaiser Permanente. "When I was hired by Kaiser three years ago, I was told that my salary was to be based on a 40-hour week," says Adams. But just one year later, he was often working an average of 16 hours a day, until he got his walking papers. Adams didn't get any overtime pay... - The FDA: "Barely Hanging On by its Fingertips"
Feb-4-08 Washington, DC: On January 29, 2008 the Government Accountability Office released a series of blockbuster reports during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And it all has to do with the FDA—the US Food and Drug Administration, the government watchdog that Americans trust for ensuring that the nation's drug, food and medical device... - Trasylol Fiasco - FDA Fails To Protect Americans Again - Part II
Feb-4-08 Washington, DC: In reading the report issued by the Zuckerman Spaeder law firm, one thing is perfectly clear. Bayer was willing to pay $700,000 to get a Trasylol study done in time for the September 21, 2006 advisory committee meeting, if it could refute the findings of the New England Journal of Medicine study. However, unbeknownst to the contract re... - Avandia Drug Company GlaxoSmithKline gets a Helping Hand it Didn't Deserve
Feb-3-08 San Antonio TX: Avandia's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, got an unfair helping hand while many diabetics just got sicker. The diabetes drug Avandia has been linked to heart attacks and other serious physical ailments. But recently, the drug maker got a shot in its own arm when it received advance notice of a peer-review article that was then-to be publ... - Rochester Meat Recall: Could Things Get Worse?
Feb-3-08 San Diego, CA: One of the victims of the e. coli contaminated beef sold to restaurant chains and food services by Minnesota-based Rochester Meat Company was described in news reports as a 17-year-old woman living in this southern California city. According to news reports, she fell ill in December, but did not become sick enough to require hospitalizat... - Zetia/Vytorin: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?
Feb-3-08 Kenilworth, NJ: The scandal over Merck/Schering-Plough's long delay in releasing the results of the ENHANCE tests of its big-bucks anti-cholesterol medication Vytorin continues to grow—to the extent that The Wall Street Journal now calls it "Vytoringate". And like its predecessor scandal, the focus of investigations has come down to a simple question: Wh... - Hope for Patients with PAH/PPH
Feb-3-08 Washington, DC: Patients who suffer from pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH—formerly known as primary pulmonary hypertension, or PPH ) may have some hope that their disease can be treated. A new drug has been developed and early studies show that patients with PAH can benefit from using the drug. The new drug, known as Ambrisentan, works by b... - Heparin Syringes: Designed to Heal, Destined to Kill
Feb-2-08 Angier, NC: It is a sad truth that medical products designed to keep you alive, could wind up killing you. But that's exactly what's at stake with the recent recall of heparin and saline pre-filled flush syringes manufactured by AM2 PAT Inc after it was found that two lots carried contamination for Serratia marcescens, a deadly bacteria that has the po... - Soldier Custody Laws
Feb-1-08 Washington, DC: America's brave men and women have been battling more than terrorists these days. Their bravery is having to be displayed in the face of another enemy. The possibility of losing custody while on active duty for the United States military has been a tragic side effect of the Middle East unrest. However, this situation is going to do an a... - Racial Discrimination and Harassment at US Mail
Jan-29-08 Burbank, CA: Chris was looking forward to a rewarding career as a postal worker when he began six years ago in Burbank, but a transfer has turned the past two years into a battle against discrimination. After buying a house in the high desert he transferred to a postal outlet in Hesperia. All went well at first until the person who hired him was fired an... - Burn Injury: Hospital Fires a Hot Topic
Jan-29-08 Coon Rapids, MN: Little wonder we fear fire, so—not only can it do so much damage to property, but fire can lead to burns , which can be the most painful injury to have, and can be the most expensive to treat. Imagine the horror when a burn injury happens to a 12-hour-old child. Tragically, that's exactly what happened to a newborn in Coon R... - PPH/PAH Reports Still Coming In
Jan-26-08 Dallas, TX: Although it may seem difficult to believe, patients are still being diagnosed with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH, formerly known as Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, PPH ) a decade after they took Fen-phen. Reports are still coming in to LawyersandSettlements.com from patients who were diagnosed with PAH within the past six months. ... - Chantix: New Labeling Warns of Suicide
Jan-25-08 Washington, DC: Just one day prior to the revelation that yet another smoking cessation patient has died at the hands of Pfizer's anti-smoking drug, the manufacturer unveiled the latest warning pertaining to the potential for suicidal thoughts. Before last Friday, Chantix product information only hinted at dire behaviors in less-prominent sections of... - FDA Wakes Up: Now Requires Drug Makers to Test for Suicide
Jan-24-08 Washington, DC: Although there is no direct reference to Chantix, the smoking cessation drug that has been the center of much recent concern regarding suicidal thoughts, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced a policy that requires drug manufacturers to study the potential for suicidal tendencies during clinical trials. In the pa... - CVQ Technologies Stock Fraud: "Everything looked good."
Jan-24-08 Mississauga, ON: When Greg Silber and his informal network of fellow investors set out to make their fortunes three years ago, they thought that CVQ Technologies looked good. They hoped to make some money from the up-and-coming natural health products company; what they got instead was a nasty dose of stock fraud. CV Technologies and its flagship prod... - Trasylol Causing Patient Confusion
Jan-20-08 New York, NY: Many patients and their families are still confused about whether or not Trasylol may have had a negative impact on their open heart surgery. With news coming out that the drug is linked to a variety of serious complications, people are scrambling to determine whether or not Trasylol was used in their surgery. Those who have suffered seriou... - Tricks to Make Drugs sound Effective
Jan-18-08 Seattle, WA: The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein proposed, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world," an intriguing proposition, begging the question: "Do our words shape the way we think about things?" It's a question at the center of a 50-year-old, controversial hypothesis, initiated when the concept of "linguistic determinism" hit the scie...