NATIONAL - According to TIME (8/12, Park) reports that the FDA panel's recent decision to recommend keeping Avandia (rosiglitazone) on the market is "a move worth billions of dollars to GSK but that also may have put millions of patients at risk." The move is also an example "of the drug industry's outmaneuvering FDA regulators," which is "disturbingly common, say both scientists and policymakers who follow drug approval and safety monitoring." FDA critics and industry monitors "charge that the drug-approval process is too easy for pharmaceutical companies to game. It is in some ways an unsurprising development. The FDA serves a public insatiably hungry for new medicines. Yet the agency does not have responsibility for performing safety testing."
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
BRADENTON INJURY LAWYER | (941) 479-0201 | Whiplash due to car crash
Whiplash injuries result in about a twenty five percent result in long term chronic disorders. It can exceed forty percent of some whiplash patients suffer with long-term symptoms. Some symptoms may last for months or even years and for some, it can last a life time, never making a complete recovery. It can be especially more troublesome for women who don't have as much muscle mass in the neck as men.
Have you or a loved one sustained a whiplash injury? Call the TRIPP LAW FIRM – Personal Injury Law for an immediate FREE confidential telephone case evaluation.
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JURY VERDICT $2.35 MILLION | Medical Negligence lawsuit | Misdiagnosis
NATIONAL - Recently a woman was awarded $2.35 million in damages after doctors at a hospital "misdiagnosed a kidney blockage, leading to an infection that had spread through her body. As a result of this misdiagnosis, part of one leg and part of one foot would have to be amputated."
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
ANCLOTE RIVER BOATING CRASH | several injured | Pasco County Sheriff | Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | INVESTIGATION
HOLIDAY — The Pasco County Sheriff's Office and The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating a boating accident that occurred near Anclote River Park off U.S. 19.
According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, two boats collided in the water about 30 feet from the park's main docks. The collision happened near marker #18, as one boat was entering the channel and another was leaving. A witness said both boats were inbound from the river. He said one speeded up and passed the other boat, which struck the marker.
BLOOD CLOT | FDA warns physicians about problems associated with IVC filters
NATIONAL - According to the Associated Press (8/10, Tanner) reports, "Medical filters that stop blood clots from reaching the lungs can move or break and cause life-threatening problems for patients, the government and a medical journal report said Monday."
The AP adds, "In an advisory to doctors and patients, the Food and Drug Administration said it has received more than 900 reports about problems with these filters since 2005." Notably, the "problems can arise when filters are left inside veins too long."
IVC filters are small, cage-like devices that are inserted into the inferior vena cava (the main vessel returning blood from the lower half of the body to the heart) to capture blood clots and prevent them from reaching the lungs. IVC filters are frequently placed in patients at risk for pulmonary embolism, or PE, when anticoagulant therapy cannot be used or is ineffective. Some patients may require long-term protection from PE, and implantation of permanent IVC filters is often performed in these cases. Others only require short-term protection, in which case retrievable IVC filters are typically used, as these devices have the option to be removed once the patient’s risk of PE subsides.
IVC filters are small, cage-like devices that are inserted into the inferior vena cava (the main vessel returning blood from the lower half of the body to the heart) to capture blood clots and prevent them from reaching the lungs. IVC filters are frequently placed in patients at risk for pulmonary embolism, or PE, when anticoagulant therapy cannot be used or is ineffective. Some patients may require long-term protection from PE, and implantation of permanent IVC filters is often performed in these cases. Others only require short-term protection, in which case retrievable IVC filters are typically used, as these devices have the option to be removed once the patient’s risk of PE subsides.
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NOT PAYING OVERTIME | Could cost MILLIONS of DOLLARS | Employees | BACK PAY
NATIONAL - According to The New York Times (8/10, A15, Pear) reports, "The Obama administration is investigating pay practices throughout the health care industry after finding that many hospitals and nursing homes do not pay proper overtime to nurses and other employees who work more than 40 hours a week."
Many "hospitals around the country have paid millions of dollars in back wages to settle claims by the government and their employees," and several others "are fighting class-action lawsuits that raise the same issues." Meanwhile, the "Labor Department has hired 250 new wage-and-hour investigators, representing a staff increase of one-third," because the "government wants to make sure workers get 'every penny they earn,'" said Kenneth Stripling, an official with the department.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
CELEBRATION INJURY LAWYER | (407) 850-8680 | WHIPLASH due to car crash near Kissimmee Disney
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telephone case evaluation.
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