Unintentional poisoning hazards span a lifetime but preventing poisoning can take only moments. In 2014, about 2.2 million calls were placed to the Poison Help Line (800-222-1222) from people coming into contact with dangerous or potentially dangerous substances. According to the American Association of Poison…
Another family, residents of Montegut, Louisiana, have filed suit against GlaxoSmithKline, claiming the international pharmaceutical giant’s anti-nausea drug Zofran caused their children to be born with cardiac malformations. Unlike most lawsuits to date, this newest complaint claims that Plaintiffs had two daughters, born within a…
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) Pharmocovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) recently finalized their review of SGLT2 inhibitors—type 2 diabetes drugs including Invokana. They concluded that additional recommendations were needed to help minimize the risk of one potentially dangerous side effect, called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). In…
Hot on the heels of the recent Wall Street Journal’s report that Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit is quietly settling morcellator cancer lawsuits, several undiagnosed uterine cancer injury claims are being filed. These new product liability claims are being filed on behalf of women diagnosed…
The St Cloud Dioceses has had two disclosures of list. I have looked at each of those as they came out: New List Of 17 From The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Has 4 That Were In Diocese of St Cloud Diocese of St…
Drug benefit companies are negotiating sweetheart deals with pharmaceutical companies at the expense of consumers, according to a report by USA Today. Under the complex arrangements, drug companies offer incentives for pharmacy benefit managers (drug benefit plans) to push expensive name-brand medications rather than equally…
This is the Press conference from last week A copy of the complaint and other information can be found at www.andersonadvocates.com
An Indiana woman, on behalf of her deceased husband, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturers of AndroGel—AbbVie Inc. and Abbott Laboratories. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Pennsylvania on January 20, 2016. The woman claims…
I blog often about the dangers of distracted driving, but some motorists take their habits to the opposite extreme – too courteous or overcautious. They: Drive well-below the posted speed limit especially in inclement weather. Wait for a green light at right-turn-on-red intersections. Let others…