According to the AP, the FDA warned July 21, that an unconventional treatment for Lyme disease could cause serious injury and even death. Alternative health physicians and others purporting to be doctors prepare and inject into patients a mixture known as bismacine or chromocine, which contains large amounts of heavy metal bismuth. At least one person died while using this product and others...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and MRL, Inc (a Welch Allyn company), recently notified healthcare professionals about the class 1 recall of 1184 automated external defibrillators ([AEDs] Welch Allyn PIC 50, catalog #97108X) manufactured during February 2002 to October 2004; 673 units were sold within the United States.The recall occured because of an electrical contact problem that...
That is the question Senator Chuck Grassley hopes to find an answer to in his recently launched probe into the FDA's handling of Vioxx debacle. Senator Grassley has asked the inspector general to investigate the FDA's conduct and report on their findings with specific reference to an FDA senior scientist, Dr. David Graham, whose findings denoted that Vioxx posed numerous risks to its users prior...
If you or a family member have been injured by the negligence, wrongful act, or fault of someone else, we believe that you and your family are entitled to experienced and high quality legal representation. Our firm was founded by Leo Newman in 1958. Mark Bronson joined in 1973 and Marc Wallis joined in 1985. We concentrate in the areas of Medical Malpractice including Birth Injury cases, serious...
Mark I. Bronson was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1948, and is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law at Columbia, Missouri receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1973. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Denver where he majored in accounting receiving a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in 1970. Mark is a Board Certified Civil Trial...
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With the popularity of TV shows such as Extreme Makeover and the constant barage of advertisements for face lifts, liposuction, and bariatric surgery, many people think that plastic surgery is a simple procedure with minimal risks. Just the opposite is true. While plastic surgery procedures are "elective" the risks involved, like any surgery, can be substantial and if not performed by a...
Judges in several statets are attending a new kind of Medical School, not to become doctors, but to become better judges in complex litigation. A non-profit school in Washington uses doctors and scientists to educate judges so that they can become more familiar with the underlying issues involved in medical malpractice, products liability or intellectual property suits. Since judges are to be...
Today's St. Petersburg Times reports: There's a nasty war out there. One poised to escalate once again. It is the conflict with the tobacco industry. It's a battle fought in the courts nationwide and, as we will see more and more, in developing countries desperate to curtail tobacco addiction among their own people.In what the media at first called a big victory for the tobacco industry, the...
According to the AP Wire, BP has halted operations at 12 Alaskan oil wells in order to investigate reports of leaking oil or diesel insulating agents. The wells are located at Prudhoe Bay, North Star and Milne Point and produced over 8,000 barrels of oil daily while in operation. Whistleblowers working with BP in Alaska reported the leaks to officials. Currently a grand jury is hearing testimony...