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• Is Direct To Consumer Marketing by Big Pharma Backfiring?

  Steve Lombardi | August 04, 2009 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I’ve covered direct marketing to patients by the pharmaceutical industry in a previous post. I was critical that other countries don’t allow marketing directly to patients and that by...

• Are they "threading the needle" in Washington County, Iowa?

  Steve Lombardi | July 21, 2009 10:44 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  What is “threading the needle”? I became interested in the idea of threading the needle after reporting on an intersection collision in rural Iowa that killed three people. The...

• Last Titanic Survivor Dies, Lessons to Learn from the Marquis Cooper Tragedy

  Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 11:36 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The seminal event for water safety has to be the sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912 the HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank taking with it 1,516 passengers and crew members. One of the 706...

• Federal Preemption: Is the FDA testing process fail-safe and protecting you, the patient?

  Steve Lombardi | October 12, 2008 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Cardiopulmonary bypass disposables are subject to a voluntary recall. You might still be asking whether issues involving federal preemption are worth the fifteen minutes it takes to write...

• Man's penis is amputated by surgeon in Kentucky leading to a medical malpractice lawsuit

  Steve Lombardi | October 05, 2008 10:17 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  There is a story in the State Journal of Frankford, Kentucky between a surgeon and his patient along with about half the men of Kentucky. Here’s the story. - FACTS, FICTION, TRIAL THEMES...

• What happened to Melissa Lewis? If you can answer that question you may get a $250,000.00 reward.

  Steve Lombardi | March 11, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Lawyers live a life in the public eye but not as a matter of choice. In many instances the work we do is public, even though we seek no publicity, only justice for our clients. The risks lawyers can be exposed to are too numerous for this post. Some lawyers regularly come into contact with unsavory characters. Others by the misconception created by Madison Avenue and large corporations believe...

• Coal Train Coming, 19-year-old driver sits on tracks

  Steve Lombardi | November 28, 2009 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Was the death of Brianna Culp, the 19 year old who was hit by a coal train, a suicide? That is the question police are asking as they look into the accident that happened Sunday, October 11th 2009....

• TEEN LOGIC: Why is a 15-year-old taxiing passengers on I-380 in Iowa?

  Steve Lombardi | September 12, 2009 9:00 AM | 4 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Can we start with an assumption: That interstate highways are a dangerous place due to cars and semi trucks driving at higher speeds; due also to wrong-way drivers, drunks and inexperienced drivers....

• Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex - Look and see; is the world ending?

  Steve Lombardi | May 10, 2009 8:14 AM | 9 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Should everything that is “wrong” be a crime? Society decides what is right and what is wrong. Society has now decided that consensual sex between adults is wrong. A...

• Food Safety: Melamine news, including the CCP takes action against government officials for melamine contamination debacle

  Steve Lombardi | March 27, 2009 2:06 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I’m surprised and elated of the action being taken by the Chinese Communist Party against government officials who were in some way involved with allowing the melamine scandal to develop...