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Black Box Warning Issued for Antibiotics

Posted on July 08, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration issued a black box warning, the most "urgent" warning they can give, on a class of antibacterials called flouroquinolone drugs. This includes Cipro and other antibiotics. The FDA cites evidence that using these drugs can lead to tendon ruptures, which can leave patients in need of extensive surgery...

Accident Critically Injures Gospel Singer

Posted on July 07, 2008
Timothy Wright, a well-known gospel singer and New York pastor, was critically injured in an auto accident in central Pennsylvania. The accident killed his wife and injured his 14-year-old grandson. Both Wright and his grandson were taken Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania...

Continental Ordered to Stand Trial for Concorde Crash

Posted on July 03, 2008
A French judge has ordered Continental Airlines and five others to stand trial for manslaughter for the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000. The Concorde crashed shortly after takeoff from Charles de Galle airport in Paris where it slammed into a hotel...

Salmonella Outbreak: More than Just Tomatoes?

Posted on July 02, 2008
The outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul which has sickened 869 people, and put 107 in the hospital, may have as much to do with the types of food eaten with suspected tomatoes as the tomatoes themselves. The reason is due to the longevity of this outbreak, which began in April...

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Liability Claim Denied by San Francisco

Posted on July 01, 2008
Officials in San Francisco have denied the city is responsible for the death of a teenager when he was mauled by an escaped tiger at the city's zoo on Christmas Day, 2007. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a letter that the claim filed by Carlos Sousa Jr...

Regulatory Climate at FDA May Slow Drug Advancement

Posted on June 30, 2008
In 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 19 new drugs. This was the fewest number of new medicines approved in 24 years. At the same time, they announced nearly 75 new or revised black-box warnings about the risks of side-effects. Furthermore, approvable letters the FDA sends out when they believe more data is necessary, increased 40%...

Wall Collapse Kills Three Masonry Workers

Posted on June 27, 2008
A wall of a building being erected for Dayton Freight Lines, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana collapsed and killed three masons. Two other construction workers were seriously injured. The wall collapsed toward the end of the day during a thunderstorm. Authorities believe 60 mph gusts of wind may have been partially to blame...

Punitive Damages Significantly Slashed in Exxon Valdez Ruling

Posted on June 26, 2008
Fourteen years ago, Exxon Mobil Corp. was ordered to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the destruction of beaches and wildlife in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was then reduced to $2.5 billion in 1994 by a federal appeals court. On Wednesday, June 25th, this was further reduced to $500 million by the U...

Crib Recall

Posted on June 25, 2008
Cribs made by Jardine Enterprises were recalled on Tuesday because the wooden slats can break. About 320,000 of the Berkley, Hilton, Positano, Spindle, and Windsor crib styles are affected by this recall.The slats and spindles that break may cause entrapment and strangulation risks for infants in the cribs...

Couple Receives $9.5 Million Settlement in Helicopter Crash

Posted on June 24, 2008
A helicopter manufacturer and parts maker has been ordered to pay a New Hampshire couple $9.5 million for injuries sustained when the tour helicopter they were in crashed on Kaua'i in 2007. Judy and Douglas Barton survived the crash, but both sustained fractured spines...

Florida Dentist Fined $17,000 for Death of Patient

Posted on June 20, 2008
Even though 90-year-old Charles K. Gaal's dentist, Dr. Wesley Meyers, dropped a tiny screwdriver down his throat in October of 2006, he insisted on returning to Dr. Meyers for care. This lead to his death following another incident with many similarities...

Salmonella Outbreak Closes in on 400

Posted on June 19, 2008
Six new cases of salmonella caused by tainted tomatoes have been confirmed in New York. This brings the national tally up to 383. Furthermore, this outbreak is far from over according to Dr. Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The six new cases are somewhat misleading because most of the individuals who were sickened became ill weeks ago, but were just counted...

911 Operator and County Sued by Family of Murdered Student

Posted on June 16, 2008
Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old UW-Madison student would have graduated in 2009 with a degree in medical microbiology and immunology. She had plans to go on to graduate school after that to study infectious disease. But on April 2, 2008, Brittany Zimmerman was stabbed to death in her apartment...

Questions Over Safety of Raw Milk Abound

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has started to look into raw, or unpasteurized, milk due to the growing concern over food-borne illnesses across the country. Raw milk sales are currently prohibited in 22 states, and cross-border sales are prohibited by the FDA...

Foster Care Death Sparks Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on June 12, 2008
The mother of a seven-week-old baby who died in the Indiana foster care system plans on filing a wrongful death suit naming the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) at fault. Randi Linden, mother of Destiny Linden, claims that the infant's death was caused by the improper removal from Linden's home...

Taser Loses First Court Case

Posted on June 11, 2008
After winning 45 wrongful death or injury lawsuits, Taser International, who markets the ubiquitous stun gun, lost a federal case in San Jose, California on Friday, June 6th. The federal jury found that Taser was responsible for the death of 40-year-old Robert Heston Jr...

Automated External Defibrillators Save Lives

Posted on June 09, 2008
According to the American Heart Association, over 450,000 adults die of sudden cardiac arrest every year. There are no statistics kept on the number of children who die each year, but it obviously happens. This is exactly the situation the Levine family found themselves in almost three years ago as their 9-year-old son, Robbie, died running bases at Little League practice in Merrick, New York...

Amtrak Train Hits Two Cars in Two Separate Accidents on Same Day

Posted on June 05, 2008
Just an hour and a half after hitting a car in Mississippi and injuring the driver, an Amtrak train hit another car in Louisiana killing two people. None of the passengers or crew on the train was injured, which was traveling from Chicago to New Orleans...

Man Shot by Police 20 Years Ago Denied Award

Posted on June 04, 2008
Darryl Barnes was initially awarded $76.4 million by a jury when he was shot in the back and paralyzed by a police officer 20 years ago. That was then reduced to $8.9 million by a trial judge. Now, Barnes will receive nothing except a bill for $100 for court costs...

Trasylol Risks

Posted on June 03, 2008
Trasylol (generic aprotinin) is administered by injection during complex operations to reduce bleeding. It reduces bleeding by slowing down a process known as fibrinolysis, which prevents the formation of blood clots. Its use is intended to minimize the need for blood transfusions and organ damage due to low blood pressure resulting from considerable blood loss...

Gadolinium/NSF Link

Posted on June 02, 2008
A common dye used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been linked to a potentially fatal disease for patients suffering with kidney problems. The dye is a gadolinium-based product, and the FDA issued an expansion on the black box warning earlier this year, stating that even a single exposure could cause nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF)...

Dangers of Zelnorm

Posted on May 30, 2008
Zelnorm (generic tegaserod maleate) was approved in 2002 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and constipation by increasing the movement of stools through the bowels. IBS is a painful and debilitation condition, which is difficult to successfully treat...

Nursing Home Abuse Growing Problem

Posted on May 29, 2008
Nursing home negligence and abuse is a growing problem in the United States.As the general population of the United States ages, the demands placed on our medical system to care for our elderly loved ones have also grown. At this time, there are approximately 34 million people over the age of 65, and nearly one in twenty of those elderly Americans will eventually require some form of assisted living...

KBR Asks Judge to Throw Out Family's Lawsuit

Posted on May 27, 2008
Over the Memorial Day weekend, the military contractor once tied to Halliburton, KBR, asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by the family of a soldier who died in Iraq when he was electrocuted while showering. Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a 24-year-old stationed with the Green Berets in Baghdad, was killed in January, and an Army investigation found that the electric pump that supplied water to the building was improperly grounded...

Woman Injured by Intoxicated Doctor Gets $6 Million

Posted on May 22, 2008
When Elizabeth Nelligan visited her primary physician's house for dinner in 2005, she got more than she wanted. Her mother was dating the doctor, Mark Radzicki, at the time, and this was a social visit. However, Radzicki who was allegedly drunk, staggered and stepped onto Nelligan's foot, and then fell on her...

Verdict Upheld against Rocky Flats

Posted on May 21, 2008
A $350 million verdict has been upheld by a federal judge in a class-action lawsuit brought by residents living around the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear plant against its former operators. Rocky Flats is located 15 miles outside of Denver, Colorado. Judge John Kane stated in a ruling released Tuesday, May 20 that the suit could move forward and added eight percent interest compounded annually...

Police Overlook Dead Teens; Father Finds Them

Posted on May 20, 2008
The parents of two high school seniors who were killed in a car accident allege their sons were left along the side of the road for several hours after police overlooked them while investigating the accident. Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, 18, were killed in the single-vehicle accident in Gary, Indiana, and two other occupants survived the crash and told emergency workers over and over that two of their friends were still at the crash site...

Possible Link between Birth Defects and Immunosuppressant Drug

Posted on May 19, 2008
Infants born with congenital anomalies, such as microtia, an ear deformity, and cleft palate, may have gotten them due to exposure to mycophenolate mofetil (MMF). According to the FDA, MMF is the active drug in CellCept, manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals, and part of the chemical makeup of metabolite mycophenolic acid (MPA) in Myfortic, manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceuticals...

Heparin-Coated Catheters Recalled

Posted on May 16, 2008
Atrium Medical Corporation has announced it is recalling lots of its Hydraglide brand heparin-coated Thoracic Drainage catheters due to contamination of the blood thinner. The contamination only affects selected lots of Atrium's catheters, and they have not received any reports of patients who have had adverse reactions...

Digitek Problems Noted as Early as 2006

Posted on May 15, 2008
The recent recall of Digitek (digoxin) due to twice the appropriate dosage goes back to March 2006. The FDA issued a recall notice at the beginning of May and stated that the distributer, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, and its manufacturer, Actavis Totowa, were voluntarily complying...

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