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Necrosis Caused by Intra-arterial Injection of Promethazine: Case Report

Posted on September 21, 2009
I found this report after hearing more about the recent black box warning issued by the FDA regarding Promethazine:"The first reported cases of intra-arterial promethazine (Phenergan) injection causing complications were in the late 1960s." There have been literature reports of adverse outcomes after accidental intra-arterial injections of drugs since the 1940s...

STLA Meeting in Asheville Sept. 24 and 25, 2009

Posted on September 21, 2009
This week the Southern Trial Lawyers Association meets in Asheville, N.C.The essential mission of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association is as simple as it is straightforward: To promote fellowship, learning, and networking among trial lawyers throughout the 13 southern states...

Flooding in Atlanta

Posted on September 21, 2009
It's bad here. Real bad. A North Georgia city has been evacuated because of levee failure fears. The above pic is of downtown Atlanta during rush hour today.

FDA warns about eyelash thickener claims

Posted on September 18, 2009
The FDA has warned Allergan Inc. that the Web site for its eyelash thickener Latisse is misleading because it avoids or downplays risks associated with the product.In a letter dated Sept. 10 and posted to the FDA Web site Wednesday, the agency said the Latisse site either doesn't mention potential side effects including bacterial eye infection, allergic reactions, excess hair growth outside the intended treatment area, and permanent changes in iris and eyelid pigmentation, or presents them in small text that is much less prominent than statements about the product's effectiveness...

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Promethazine Gets Black Box Warning for Tissue Damage/Amputation Risk

Posted on September 17, 2009
Makers of injected promethazine, a sedative also used to treat nausea and vomiting, are being required to put the strongest warning possible on the product because it can cause tissue damage leading to amputation, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday...

GA Supreme Court to Hear Oral Argument on Damages Caps on 9/14

Posted on September 14, 2009
Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on Caps on DamagesStatute is challenged after a medical malpractice victim?s faceliterally falls off after surgeryAtlanta, GA-- On Tuesday, September 15, 2009, the Georgia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding the constitutionality of the provision that caps the amount of damages a victim of medical malpractice can secure from a jury...

Conmed Recall of Surgical Instruments

Posted on September 13, 2009
Medical device maker Conmed Corp. on Wednesday issued a voluntary recall of certain surgical instrument products, saying the devices may self-activate and cause injury in rare cases.Conmed said the recall affects certain model numbers of its PRO5 and PRO6 series battery hand pieces manufactured before May 31, 2008...

Penumbra Catheter Recall

Posted on September 13, 2009
Penumbra and FDA notified healthcare professionals of the Class 1 recall of the Neuron 5F Select Catheter, used to remove blood clots or foreign objects from blood vessels. Due to a manufacturing error, the catheters may contain pin holes and exposed wire braids which may result in a brain clot or a blood vessel puncture, and this may lead to possible death...

Window Blinds Recall

Posted on September 13, 2009
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing a major recall on several types of winder blinds and shades. Here are three of the largest recalls.The first set of shades on our recall list is the kind that rolls up. It's called the Oval Roll-Up Blinds...

Levaquin and Link to Vision Problems?

Posted on September 10, 2009
From the journal Opthamology:According to World Health Organization criteria, the relationship between fluoroquinolone therapy and diplopia is ?possible.? This causality assessment is based on the time relationship of drug administration and ADR development, the multiple positive dechallenge and rechallenge reports, and the plausible mechanism by which diplopia could occur: Possible tendinitis of the extraocular muscles...

Zyprexa: Allegations that Lilly Paid Docs to Prescribe it

Posted on September 10, 2009
From Bloomberg:Eli Lilly & Co. paid doctors in South Carolina for participating in a speakers? program in exchange for prescribing the antipsychotic Zyprexa, and used golf bets to get more patients on the drug, according to notes by sales representatives...

Fosamax: Jury Deliberations Marked by Threats and Intimidation?

Posted on September 10, 2009
From CNNMoney.com I can tell you I've never heard of any Judge offering to have court officers escort jurors home: A U.S. judge called for a daylong "cooling off" period in a product-liability case over Merck & Co.'s (MRK) osteoporosis drug Fosamax after jury deliberations became tense on Wednesday...

Actiq Deaths

Posted on September 02, 2009
Actiq is a powerful narcotic painkiller in the form of a lollipop that is manufactured by Cephalon, Inc. The drug is delivered to the bloodstream by a lollipop-like lozenge; when placed against the inner cheek, pain is relieved in minutes. Actiq is also administered by transdermal patches and by injection...

Steam Dietary Supplement Recalled

Posted on September 01, 2009
Nutracoastal Trading LLC announced today that it is expanding its July 28th, 2009 voluntary nationwide recall of the company's dietary supplement product sold under the following name: STEAM.The Company has found by lab analysis that Lot 90260 contains Tadalafil, an active ingredient of an FDA-approved drug for erectile dysfunction (ED), making STEAM DIETARY SUPPLEMENT an unapproved drug...

College Football Arrives

Posted on September 01, 2009
Tailgating at Ole Miss in the GroveMy passions are typically every day ones - my labs, the outdoors. This week (Thursday, actually) is the start of the real passion/religion 'down here' in the South - big time college football. My team? The Gators.What's it like for me and others in SEC Country? Here is a comparison of North v...

Stella awards

Posted on August 31, 2009
The Stella Awards� were inspired by Stella Liebeck, the Plaintiff in the McDonald's coffee case. Some folks may know that The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body,including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas...

Stella Awards, Part II

Posted on August 31, 2009
Good stuff from my friend Jere Beasley:The annual Stella Awards list, a list of the years seven ?most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.,? is nothing more than a fraud on the public. The so-called awards deal primarily with fiction, and many of the lawsuits listed never happened...

Katrina: New Orleans Four Years Later

Posted on August 30, 2009
It's easy for many to simply forget that Katrina hurt much more than New Orleans. It devastated parts of lower Mississippi and damaged coastal Alabama as well. I flew out of New Orleans the weekend before Katrina hit. I was there this weekend, on the 4th Anniversary of the storm's passing...

Diet Drug Reviewed by FDA: Orlistat (Xenical)

Posted on August 26, 2009
The FDA said it has received 32 reports of serious liver injury -- including six cases of liver failure -- among users of diet drug orlistat, which is sold as a prescription drug under the trade name Xenical and as an over-the-counter diet aid under the name Alli...

Tamifoxen News

Posted on August 26, 2009
A report recently released suggests that a drug used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer may have a rare but dangerous side effect: increasing the odds that long-term users may develop an uncommon but aggressive new tumor.The report was called into question right away, noting clinical trials had repeatedly found that the drug, tamoxifen, reduced the recurrence and spread of common breast cancers and that its benefits exceeded any possible risks...

Sports and the Law

Posted on August 25, 2009
A few items of interest for me, given my love of sports. Always a fun read when law intersects with Sports:Delaware Lottery and NFL? Scratch that. "In a rare move, the appellate court not only found that a lower court judge had erred in refusing to issue a preliminary injunction, but declared that the answer to the ultimate question in the case was indisputably clear -- and that a permanent injunction must be issued...

Yaz & Yasmin Injury, Georgia

Posted on August 25, 2009
Our office is investigating claims of injury related to the birth control pills known as Yaz or Yasmin:Yasmin and Yaz are two types of birth control pills manufactured by Bayer Healthcare, and the generic, Ocella, is marketed and distributed by Barr Laboratories, Inc...

Xolair- Investigate for Link to Cardiac Problems?

Posted on August 17, 2009
In Canada news:The safety of the asthma drug Xolair is under review to investigate a potential link to cardiovascular problems.The probe was triggered by interim findings in an ongoing U.S. study into the long-term safety of Xolair, known generically as omalizumab...

Cellcept Warning Label Updated

Posted on August 17, 2009
A warning of a risk of pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) has been added to the label and prescribing information for mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept).Drug manufacturer Roche reported 41 cases of PRCA in patients given mycophenolate mofetil. In 16 of the cases, reduction of the dose or discontinuation resolved the condition...

What Should a Solo/Small Firm Focus on to build a practice?

Posted on August 14, 2009
I have been reading on several sites the opinions of what a solo lawyer or small law office should do when it comes to building a client base. There can never be a set list of what is important, but I do shudder when (at least in the consumer law/personal injury field) I see people blindly touting Social Networks as the key to all things, or a key building block...

Actos and Avandia News

Posted on August 13, 2009
A large study from British Columbia, Canada is pointing to an increased fracture risk with thiazolidinediones (TZDs), used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes [1]. The study, which reviewed fracture risk in more than 84 000 patients receiving either rosiglitazone (Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline) or pioglitazone (Actos, Takeda) vs a sulfonylurea, found that both men and women are at increased risk of broken bones when taking a TZD and hints that pioglitazone may be more strongly associated with fracture risk...

Permax Information

Posted on August 13, 2009
Earlier in 2007, the FDA announced that Permax (generic: pergolide) was withdrawn. There are additional drugs in the same class that can be substituted. Studies had been released linking Permax with heart valve damage. A study by Italian researchers found that approximately one-fourth of Parkinson's patients taking Permax had moderate to severe heart valve troubles...

Fosamax: First Trial Approaches

Posted on August 11, 2009
Merck & Co., the drugmaker facing 900 lawsuits over claims that its osteoporosis drug Fosamax causes the death of jawbone tissue, goes to trial this week. The trial in New York of the first case of the group, filed by Shirley Boles, 71, will be one of three cases to go this summer...

Avandia - Diabetes Drug- Heart Attack Link?

Posted on August 11, 2009
Avandia is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline for type 2 diabetes. It was first approved for use in 1999. Since then more than 6 million people worldwide have taken this drug. Avandia helps sensitize the body to insulin and helps control blood sugar. According to a recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine, patients taking Avandia have a 43% higher rate of heart attacks...

Fentanyl Patch Recall News

Posted on August 10, 2009
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, announced today that one lot of 100 mcg/hr Fentanyl Transdermal System patches sold in the United States is being voluntarily recalled from wholesalers and pharmacies...

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