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Jun-29-09 Washington, DC According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), rates of foodborne illnesses have been holding steady for five years and have even been declining from the mid-1990s until the beginning of this decade, due mainly to improvements in the meat and poultry industry. And one report says that frequent outbreaks of foodborne illness have bee... - JBS Swift Beef Recall Expanded Over E. coli Concerns
Jun-29-09 Greeley, CO It might have been Sunday, but a weekend never appears to deter the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from pulling the trigger on the recall revolver—especially when it comes to bad beef. And a recall announced last week of beef potentially contaminated with E. coli was expanded yesterday to about ten times the size of the initial E. c... - Hydroxycut Recall a Sign of Wanting Regulation
Jun-2-09 Washington, DC The voluntary recall of Hydroxycut supplements last month points to more than a problem with Hydroxycut diet supplements. There appears to be a far larger issue with regard to the regulatory process involved for dietary supplements, a process which—were it more rigid and thorough—might prevent things like Hydroxycut liver damage. A... - Ground Beef Recalled Due to E Coli Contamination
May-21-09 Coal Valley, IL: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today that Valley Meats LLC, of Coal Valley, Ill. has recalled over 95,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The problem was discovered through an epidemiological investigation of illnesses, the USDA said... - Reports of Foodborne Illness Often Mistaken as "Flu"
May-19-09 Sherman Oaks, CA Sarah and her son had dinner at a local Mexican restaurant; two days later they both became violently sick but at first thought it was the flu. "When I phoned the health department, they told me that all too often, people don't report food poisoning ," says Sara. "But when two people become ill from eating basically the same food at the s... - Was American Idol Judge Hooked on Fentanyl?
May-13-09 Carlsbad, CA In a revealing interview in the June, 2009 issue of Ladies Home Journal, pop sensation and reality TV show star Paula Abdul recounts a life filled with chronic pain, complete with a 12-year addiction to painkillers that finally ended this past fall. What those painkillers were, she did not say. However Abdul did make reference to a pain patch... - Hydroxycut Recall Leads to Lawsuit
May-13-09 Baltimore, MD The makers of Hydroxycut could find themselves in court following the announcement of the Hydroxycut recall. Consumers, upset about being put at risk of experiencing serious Hydroxycut side effects, including liver injury, are now contacting lawyers to explore their options regarding a Hydroxycut lawsuit. At least 1 lawsuit has been filed i... - Two Crossed Wires Can Make a Defective Car
May-6-09 Farmington Hills, MI The very component that could save your life in a serious vehicular crash could fail due to an auto defect involving various Jeep models. The defective automobile has an issue with an airbag control that could fail and 47,000 units of the defective car have been recalled. There are actually two separate recalls at play here. The... - Man Receives Fentanyl Patch Recall Letter Days After Wife's Death
Apr-20-09 Sanford, FL Imagine getting a letter from your pharmacy, duly informing you about the Duragesic fentanyl patch recall . Now just imagine receiving that letter just days after your wife had died from a fentanyl patch… That's exactly what happened to the husband of Janice DiCosolo, a woman who died after using a Duragesic fentanyl patch to ease her co... - Tainted Heparin Still a Lightning Rod of Opinion, Litigation
Apr-10-09 Raleigh, NC Imagine the panic of a father, rushing his son to hospital. The child was shaking uncontrollably and had developed a fever of 106. Dusty Martin didn't know it at the time, but the basis for his son's intense suffering was a contaminated heparin syringe from AM2PAT. Michael Martin, all of 8 years old, is a hemophiliac and in constant dange... - Attorney Cracks Down on Chiropractic Malpractice
Mar-25-09 Washington D.C. Attorney Michael Abelson became interested in chiropractic malpractice 5 years ago when a woman came to his law office in Washington D.C. and told him that her husband had died just two hours after having a neck manipulation. "He was found unconscious at home, rushed to a hospital in Maryland and died six days later," Abelson recalls. "T... - Defective Drugs: Are You Afraid of Your Medication?
Mar-15-09 Minneapolis, MN With the recent focus on defective drugs and drug recalls, you can be forgiven for hesitating for a moment before you take your medication. After all, lately it seems as though it is not a case of IF a drug will be recalled, but WHEN the recall will occur. Bad drugs have been in the news a lot—from overdoses of active ingredients to te... - Attorney Kenneth Suggs Wins $4.4 Million for Grieving Family
Feb-21-09 Columbia, S.C. Exactly one year after a little 4-year-old girl with cerebral palsy died from complications, a jury ordered the Piedmont Medical Centre in South Carolina to pay $4.4 million in damages to her grieving family. "If the medical malpractice award in this case seems large it's because the damages to the child in this case were horrendous," says... - Tainted Heparin: The FDA Let You Down
Feb-18-09 Washington, DC It is thought that in the aftermath of the tainted heparin scandal, a total of 83 people lost their lives, linked to tainted heparin from China. One of those deaths may have been that of an eight-month-old baby. Julien Oryschaks died on November 19th, 2007. The baby's parents think contaminated heparin played a role in their infant son's... - Defective Products Rattle Safety Advocates
Jan-19-09 Washington DC Defective products provide continuing frustration for consumers, in tandem with manufacturers of goods that continue to look towards the lower labor costs associated with manufacturing overseas. Poor quality often results, and consumer safety is often put at risk. Defective product personal injury cannot only be frustrating, it can also be... - Eli Lilly Set to Accept $1.4 Billion Whistleblower Settlement
Jan-18-09 Washington, DC To say that a whistleblower cost a major pharmaceutical company $1.4 billion detracts from the value of whistle blowing as a major support protecting the safety and interests of consumers. How else might we have known about the alleged wrongdoings of Big Pharma giant Eli Lilly with regard to the marketing of Zyprexa? Whistleblowers perform... - Heparin in the Top Ten
Jan-14-09 Los Angeles, CA Of all the medical mishaps and mistakes, recalls and reports of 2008, heparin contamination has to be in the top ten. The blood-thinning drug that was found to be tainted by it Chinese manufacturer allegedly caused hundreds of injuries and at least 20 deaths in the US and more than 80 serious adverse events in Germany. Add to that the Foo... - Semi Truck Accidents are Nightmares on Wheels
Dec-15-08 Kansas City, MI Semi truck accidents add new meaning to the phrase, "go big or go home." Not only is a trucking accident that involves a big rig massive in sheer size, but also massive in scope with regard to the carnage that can ensue. And to be fair to the trucking industry, it's not always the fault of the truck driver. The problem is that with so man... - Five ETHEX Drug Recalls "Excessive"
Dec-14-08 Bullhead City, AZ When Fletcher W. received a notification that his medication, made by ETHEX Corporation, was recalled, he realized that his chest pain had been caused by the isosorbide mononitrate he was taking. Like many people who were put at risk of an ETHEX Corporation drug overdose, Fletcher suffered some side effects from his medication. Luckily... - Tainted Heparin Verified as Cause for Adverse Reactions by CDC
Dec-5-08 Atlanta, GA Even though contaminated heparin has been in the headlines for a year now, a case-control study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the respected health organization based in Atlanta, finally confirms via a published report something we know all too well: tainted heparin, and syringes used to deliver the drug, have played...