Many clients who have suffered back injuries in a car accident are recommended to have a steroid block injuection in their back to relieve the pain. Sometimes there are a series of shots.Epidural steroid injections (ESIs) are an integral part of nonsurgical management of radicular pain from lumbar spine disorders. Radicular pain is described as a sharp, lancinating, and radiating pain, often...
If you've been reading the newspapers lately, you can't miss articles and editorials concerning the proliferation of Conflicts of Interest in Medical Studies. As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Chicago Tribune; several stories are surfacing about researchers who deceive the editors and readers of Medical Journals by hiding their financial ties to...
The drug Gleevec is a successful treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia. However, a study led by Dr. Thomas Force of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, indicates that the drug may be linked to damage to the heart muscle. According to the study, several patients with normal heart function when starting to take Gleevec, developed congestive heart failure between one and 14 months...
When a company proposes to market a drug, the FDA will often let them go forward on the promise that they will conduct further studies on the safety of the drug. Unfortunately, it appears that the FDA never follows up to see if these promises are kept. As a result, too many people are injured before a drug gets pulled from the market.As reported,US Report Faults FDA Post-Approval Study...
Recipients of transplanted human tissue continue to be threatened by the fear of exposure to infectious diseases from donor tissue which was improperly and illegally harvested from cadavers in NY State. Surgical patients that received "allograft" or human tissue during their procedures may have been exposed to communicable diseases including HIV-1 and 2, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus...
The smoke has cleared a little on the recent decision of the Florida Supreme Court that was initially hailed as a victory for Big Tobacco. (Pardon the pun.) It now appears that the legal pathway for 700,000 smokers to a recovery for their smoking-related injuries may be much straighter than before the ruling. The courthouse doors are now open to the smokers. As they enter they are handed...
In yet another example of the insurance industry taking advantage of those that can least afford to be denied their legal rights, the conduct of Nationwide Insurance Company is under close scrutiny in response to the handling of claims for victims of Hurricane Katrina. A bad faith insurance lawsuit has been filed in Mississippi by a family insured by Nationwide for 10 years who was denied their...
Money which was improperly collected and retained from injured Ohio workers through the Ohio's workers compensation Bureau (BWC) will be paid back as the result of a successful consumer class action law suit. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation will return $52 million collected from about 7,900 workers who were injured between 1993 and 2001. The workers initially received money from third...
Here is the second part of our continuing discussion of Nevada negligence law. Set forth below are case citations and holdings that deal with damage issues in such cases.The statutes of repose bar only those actions arising out of design and construction-related negligence, but not negligent maintenance. Davenport v. Comstock Hills-Reno, 118 Nev. 389, 46 P.3d 62 (2002). Under NRS 41.141, a...
Out of pure curiosity, I was wondering what some of the organizations I belong to paid lobbyist. I came across a website that allowed me to search all kinds of organizations and what they paid to lobbyists. If you believe that money buys influence, you can really see who is doing the buying. According to the website, 2.21 billion dollars was spent last year in reported lobbying costs. My...