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Yaz Recall? Yes there was one

Posted on May 09, 2010
Image via CrunchBaseGood work by Jim Edwards: The FDA did issue a recall for Yaz back in November 2009. The reason: Bayer had reported the product was ?within specification? when in fact it wasn?t ? the company had taken a number of measures and averaged them together to get the number it needed...

Tylenol Recall Update

Posted on May 09, 2010
Image via WikipediaFood and Drug Administration inspectors found in April that McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which has voluntarily recalled certain lots of its children's and infants' Tylenol products, knowingly used bacteria-contaminated materials to make them, a report posted Tuesday by the agency says...

FDA monitoring oil spill impact on seafood industry

Posted on May 09, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other agencies to monitor the safety of seafood from the Gulf of Mexico following the recent oil spill.The FDA has said the public should not be concerned about seafood safety at this time...

Gulf oil Spill Events, May 9, 2010

Posted on May 09, 2010
Image by nasa1fan/MSFC via FlickrNot good this weekend: In Louisiana, truckloads of sand were being delivered and put in sandbags to be dropped by National Guard helicopters along Fourchon Beach, which is southwest of New Orleans. It's one of the few beaches along the Louisiana coast, with about two miles of public sand and another seven miles that is privately owned...

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Fosamax: Defense Verdict for Merck

Posted on May 07, 2010
A federal jury in New York decided that a woman who claimed she was harmed by Merck & Co's osteoporosis drug Fosamax did not suffer from a serious jaw condition linked to the medicine. The plaintiff, Louise Maley, an Indiana woman who used Fosamax for nearly eight years, claimed that she suffered osteonecrosis of the jaw -- a form of bone death associated with Fosamax and similar drugs -- and dental problems as a result of long-term use of the medicine...

Drugmakers found liable in hepatitis case

Posted on May 07, 2010
Image via CrunchBaseTwo drug companies must pay more than $5 million after a jury found them liable in the first civil trial stemming from Southern Nevada's hepatitis C outbreak.After deliberating for three days, the jury ruled that Teva Parenteral Medicine and Baxter Healthcare Services, which made and sold the sedative propofol, failed to label drug vials with appropriate warnings and should not have provided large vials of the anesthetic to endoscopy centers...

Will US Vehicles Get A Black Box?

Posted on May 05, 2010
Image via WikipediaFollowing Toyota's recall of its faulty models, which heavily affected the American market, the US government is considering plans to introduce black box recorders to all new cars and lorries.The US House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee has put forward a draft legislation that would see black boxes - similar to those on aeroplanes - being used to determine the cause of accidents...

Plavix News from Europe

Posted on May 05, 2010
Several European countries have recalled batches of generic heart drug Plavix made at a factory in India.Plavix, or clopidogrel, is sold as a brand by Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb and is the world's second biggest-selling medicine, with worldwide sales of more than $9 billion a year...

FDA: New Sunscreen Rating

Posted on May 05, 2010
Image by Felipe Skroski via FlickrThe FDA 4-Star Rating System:The FDA plans to implement include a four-star rating system for UVA protection that would be based on both in vitro and in vivo tests and incorporate a measurement of photostability.Manufacturers would be required to include the four-star rating on their sunscreen labels and would face new restrictions in what they can and cannot say on labels...

FDA Report Re: Tylenol Plant

Posted on May 05, 2010
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeU.S. inspectors found thick dust and contaminated ingredients at the Johnson & Johnson plant that produces Children's Tylenol and dozens of other products that were recalled last week.A Food and Drug Administration report released on Tuesday said its inspectors found thick dust and grime covering certain equipment, a hole in the ceiling and duct tape-covered pipes at the Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, facility that made 40 products recalled last Friday...

Georgia: Oil Spill Litigation and a Recent Consent Order

Posted on May 04, 2010
On Sunday, the U.S. District Court Eastern District issued a ruling that Louisiana fishermen were not bound by language in work agreements signed to participate in cleanup and mitigation efforts organized by BP. The consent agreement applies these same protections to any U...

Ulimate Power Meal Supplement Lawsuit and Damages

Posted on May 03, 2010
An alternative-medicine advocate named Gary Null has sued the New Jersey manufacturer of Ultimate Power Meal. The New York Post has reported that Mr. Null filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking $10 million from Triarco Industries Inc. of Wayne, New Jersey...

May 2, 2010 Oil Spill Info: A Must Read Blog Entry

Posted on May 02, 2010
Image by Chris Denbow via FlickrFrom: http://blog.nature.org/2010/05/bill-finch-nature-conservancy-oil-spill-alabama-oyster/BAYOU LA BATRE, ALABAMA, May 2, 2010 ? On Saturday morning, barges decked with giant coils of fluorescent yellow and orange booms designed to contain the coming oil spill here bobbed among fading shrimp boats on the Bayou (which is what the Alabama coastal community is called here)...

Alabama: Oil Spill - BP Officials meet residents of Bayou La Batre

Posted on May 02, 2010
It was a packed house at the community center in Bayou La Batre. With no air conditioning it was also a sweaty, hothouse. Officials from BP, the Coast Guard and others tried to update an uncomfortable crowd on the oil spill. At times the meeting was tense...

GA: Texting and Cell Phone Bans made into Law

Posted on May 02, 2010
Image via Wikipedia* HB 23, sponsored by Rep. Matt Ramsey (R-Peachtree City), which would ban Class D drivers -- mostly teenagers -- from talking on cellphones while driving. * SB 360, which would ban texting by all drivers. Sponsored by Sen. Jack Murphy (R-Cumming), the bill will be known as the Caleb Sorohan Act, named after a Morgan County teenager who died while texting and driving.

Medications for Children Recalled

Posted on May 02, 2010
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, based in Fort Washington, Pa., issued the voluntary recall late Friday in the United States and 11 other countries after consulting with the FDA. The recall involves children's versions of Tylenol, Tylenol Plus, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl, because they don't meet quality standards...

Florida Attorney General and the Gulf Oil Spill 4/30/10

Posted on May 01, 2010
Attorney General Issues Statement on Oil Spill Approaching Florida's CoastlineTALLAHASSEE, FL -- Attorney General Bill McCollum today issued the following statement on the British Petroleum oil spill approaching Florida?s coastline:"The British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico presents a clear and present danger to our coastline, our environment, and our economy...

Gulf Oil Spill and the Law: Fishermen wait for spill effects

Posted on May 01, 2010
From: http://neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2010/04/29/fishermen-lawyers-wait-for-oil-spill-effects/Shrimp fishermen in south Louisiana have traded in their fishing gear for garbage bags and anything else they can use to collect as much of the crude oil now leaking at about 200,000 gallons per day from a collapsed BP rig and posing an increasing threat to their livelihood...

Alabama/Georgia/Florida Oil Spill Damage Information

Posted on May 01, 2010
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video via FlickrI grew up in Florida, and consider the Gulf Coast South my home - from the Bayous of LA, to favorite places like Fairhope, to Seagrove Beach - all in the path of a man made disaster that may be worse than any hurricane...

Gulf Oil Spill Lawyer Information

Posted on May 01, 2010
From my friend Rick Kuykendall, whose home is in South Alabama:Rick is a key founder of a litigation team of Gulf state lawyers that is one of the first to file for damages arising out of the growing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This suit seeks damages for fishing and other industries as well as property owners impacted by the spill and are the first of many actions to be filed by the group...

Gul Oil Spill Lawsuits/State Actions: Florida, Alabama, LA, Miss and TX get together

Posted on May 01, 2010
The top law enforcement executives for five states will meet to talk about legal options for dealing with the effects of a massive oil spill threatening their Gulf of Mexico shores.The attorneys general from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas will meet Sunday in Mobile, Ala...

Georgia Avandia News: US Senate Reports

Posted on April 30, 2010
Amazing. You just have to read the report released yesterday. From the Senate Report:Senators "asked the Food and Drug Administration to describe what steps the agency has taken to protect patients in an ongoing Avandia clinical trial, and why the study is allowed to continue, given that the FDA itself estimated that the drug caused approximately 83,000 excess heart attacks between 1999 and 2007...

Topamax Maker to Pay $81 Million Fine

Posted on April 30, 2010
The Justice Department announced Thursday that two subsidiaries of the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson had agreed to pay more than $81 million in a case accusing them of illegally promoting the epilepsy drug Topamax for psychiatric uses. Source...

Defective Cardiac Science Corporation Powerheart, CardioVive, Nihon Kohden, and GE Responder External Defibrillators: Updated April 27, 2010

Posted on April 28, 2010
From the FDA site:Device: Cardiac Science Powerheart, CardioVive, Nihon Kohden (NK) and GE Responder External Defibrillatorsmanufactured between August 2003 and August 2009. These devices are used for emergency treatment of victims with symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest who are unresponsive and not breathing...

Astra Zeneca Pays $520 Million Fine for Seroquel Off Label Marketing

Posted on April 28, 2010
AstraZeneca has finalized its agreement with US federal and state entities, under which it will pay $520 million to resolve allegations that it marketed the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel for off-label uses.The US contends that the company promoted the drug to doctors who do not typically treat schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, for which the drug is FDA approved...

SCOTUS and Merck Securities opinion

Posted on April 28, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a securities fraud lawsuit can proceed against Merck over the pharmaceutical company's disclosures to investors about its withdrawn Vioxx pain drug. Find the opinion here. A full discussion is on Wiki here.The justices unanimously upheld a ruling by a U...

Pain Pump MDL REJECTED

Posted on April 28, 2010
Again. In re Ambulatory Pain Pump-Chondrolysis Products Liability Litigation, J.P.M.L., MDL No. 2139 (4/14/10).Injured consumers claim that they developed chondrolysis after a pump used to directly send anesthetic into their shoulder joints following surgery failed...

PA Medical Malpractice Info

Posted on April 28, 2010
Image by ipeters61 via FlickrThanks to the folks at the Torts Prof Blog for this tidbit:Pennsylvania prepares more detailed med mal filings and verdicts data than most states. 2009 figures were recently released. In 2009, there were 1,533 med mal filings, a 43...

South Dakota gets $$$ from AZ

Posted on April 28, 2010
SD's State Attorney General says South Dakota will receive $1.1 million as part of a sweeping settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca that resolved allegations of illegal marketing of the company's antipsychotic drug Seroquel.Source here...

Guidant Plea Deal on Defibs Rejected

Posted on April 28, 2010
Image via WikipediaU.S. District Judge Donovan Frank in St. Paul, Minnesota, gave the judicial thumbs down to a plea agreement with prosecutors. He said the company should be placed on probation for failing to disclose defects with its heart devices to regulators...

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