The FDA and CDC have updated an alert issued last year after receiving more reports of a rare neurological disorder, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) following administration of a vaccine (trade name Menactra) designed to prevent meningococcal disease, a major cause of bacterial meningitis and blood stream infections.To date, a total of 15 confirmed cases of GBS have been reported among individuals...
FDA's Medwatch announced a recall today of 18 lots of Complete (R) MoisturePLUS multipurpose contact lens care solution and Active Packs which were distributed in the U.S. Certain lots were contaminated with bacteria that compromised sterility, which can carry serious health consequences, including eye infection and microbial keratitis.If you have the recalled product, you should discontinue...
A wise, old personal injury attorney once said "The injured person doesn't make any money on appeal."The reason that appeal is bad for the plaintiff is that the best an appellate court can ever do is to reaffirm something good that has already happened in the trial court. If an injured person or a family whose loved one has been killed due to someone else's fault gets a big verdict, the...
I hope everybody has a happy and healthy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Usually the Friday after Thanksgiving has become the busiest shopping day of the year throughout the country. During this upcoming holiday shopping season, increasingly more and more consumers are shopping on the internet. This year, we have already seen a startling increase in identity thefts and compromised sensitive data and I...
The nursing home fire lawsuits in Nashville , Tennessee have finally been settled after three years . A fire started at the National Healthcare Facility on Patterson Street on Sept. 25 , 2003 . The plaintiffs alleged exposed wiring on the electric bed hand controls , lack of training of personal , and numerous safety violations . Hopefully, the trial court will now unseal...
On Monday, federal jurors in Tulsa awarded 15 Million in compensatory damages to the family of an 18-year-old boy killed when his Ford Explorer Sport rolled over. The young man was killed in 2003 as his car flipped 1 1/2 times as he passed another car on a winding road. Tyler Moody, belted in his '95 Explorer Sport, died because the defective vehicle had an inadequate roof-crush tolerance. ...
Dr. David Graham's testimony for federal Vioxx trials "goes beyond anything he has said previously and shouldn't be heard by jurors," said Merck's attorneys. Graham alleged that the drug maker dragged its feet about adding a warning label and that Vioxx should not have even been approved when it was. A hearing is scheduled for later this week to decide what part of his depositions will be...
According to the Parmaceutical Business Review online, a study out of Washington University School of Medicine shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) can increase liver damage in patients. Here are some details of the study:Using an experimental mouse model of the disorder, the researchers investigated the effects of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) on liver...
If you thought identity theft could only lead to financial problems, time to think again.Fast-Growing Medical Identity Theft Has Lethal ConsequencesFrom a Boston psychiatrist who submitted false bills to insurance companies, marring the medical records of several patients, to a Florida woman who found an imposter had led a hospital to record a false blood type causing a potentially fatal error,...
Due to sterility problems, almost 3 million units of Complete MoisturePLUS contact lens solution were recalled. Advanced Medical Optics discovered bacterial contamination in three lots manufactured in China. Ralstonia bacteria, which poses a possible eye risk, was found in the solution. Though the company has not received any adverse event reports in the U.S. related to the recalled lots of...