Posts tagged Defective Drugs

• You've been exposed to Cadmium - now what?

  Megan Roth | May 05, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Cadmium poisoning and how to effectively treat it is a conundrum. Alright, let's say you've done everything we recommended in order to prevent cadmium poisoning. You've altered your diet to include...

• The High Cost of Cheap Batteries

  Megan Roth | May 03, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  While we're doing our best to keep our wallets thick, we're contributing to the health deterioration of any factory worker or distributor. Though the negative effects of cadmium batteries are...

• House and Senate Bills Creating New CPSC Powers is Long Overdue

  Steve Lombardi | March 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Editorials like one appearing in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 are examples of irresponsible journalism. Just as the public tired of "liberal media" so are they sick and tired of the other extreme form of journalism that adds nothing to solving problems. The editorial board should go back to the basic foundation of good solid journalism and save their opinions for personal...

• FDA Warning - Heparin - more Heparin products recalled

  Steve Lombardi | March 25, 2008 12:36 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Another Heparin product recall. You should know that this anticoagulant drug is manufactured from pig intestines. Surprised? From where do you think the ingredients for the widely taken menapause drug Premarin are found? Read today's blawg post to find out. More Heparin products have been voluntarily recalled on a nationwide basis. The Food and Drug Administration has received reports of serious...

• Trial Lawyers - Evidence Based Medicine

  Steve Lombardi | March 20, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  We've heard all about the necessity of expert witnesses using evidence based medicine to formulate opinions in law suits. Of course many of us have not bought into "evidence based medicine" as the cure for what some characterize as "fairer judicial decisions". We've been around too long and heard it previously suggested that the jury system needs to be fixed by those with a financial interest in...

• Trial Lawyers - What is evidence based medicine?

  Steve Lombardi | March 19, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Evidence based medicine is a medical concept that is being peddled to the legal profession, but especially the Courts as a fairer approach to deciding what evidence should or should not be admitted into evidence. It's a medical concept that some are attempting to turn into a legal concept. There are several definitions. A few are cataloged below. There is even a Centre For Evidence-Based...

• It's no wonder so much money is being spent to vilify the trial lawyer.

  Steve Lombardi | March 18, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Doesn't it seem like the fox is watching the hen house? Now you have to ask yourself: Question: Who is watching out for your family? Answer: Certainly not the drug companies and absolutely not the FDA. Question: Why is the FDA allowing all of this advertising directly to the consumer? Why is this relationship between the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies so cozy?Answer: ?????According to The...

• Scared of poison toys? Then hold on because drugs are next.

  Steve Lombardi | March 15, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The campaign to get the American public to hate trial lawyers is a well thought out plan to make billions of dollars in bonuses for corporate CEO's. The fact that it's working will only encourage the importation of more poison products coming into the Unites States.If the general public isn't yet outraged about our children being poisoned by lead paint covered toys, then just wait. The toxic...

• Prescription Drugs - Liver Damage - FDA Warning - Tysabri

  Steve Lombardi | March 04, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  FDA warning describes potentially severe liver damage associated with the prescription drug Tysabri. The warning link can be obtained through this blawg.Potential liver damage that can result in the need for a liver transplant in some patients is the significance of an FDA and Biogen Idec, Elan warning associated with the drug Tysabi. Patients taking this drug can read the warning at the FDA...

• The McDonald's Verdict, Tort Deform and other Riddles Revisited

  Steve Lombardi | March 03, 2008 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I have to admit that this one was too good to pass on without comment. I've written previously about tort deformers and their mantra and how Madison Avenue has brilliantly fooled most of the nation into believing the sky is falling and we can only save the nation with more tort deform. But as my mother is fond of saying, "This one is a real doozy!" I have to admit that this one was too good to...