Personal Injury Law

Preparing for This Fall's Unpredictable Flu Season

Posted on February 22, 2008
LEARN MORE IB on Influenza  FDA on flu season  CDC on Influenza  Listen in to CDC update on flu season, Friday 1:30 pm, February 22 1-800-857-9824 Flu season begins this fall and already federal health officials are preparing for the next round of what they hope will be an effective vaccine...

Bayer Responds to Trasylol Studies

Posted on February 22, 2008
Image: Joseph Randone LEARN MORE Injuryboard on Trasylol 60 Minutes story  New England Journal of Medicine, February 21 report on Trasylol  IB's Akre - Does Bayer have anything to say to the Randone family profiled on 60 Minutes last Sunday? "Bayer would like the Randone family to know we are very sorry for their loss...

Slowing Senior Memory Loss

Posted on February 21, 2008
LEARN MORE Alzheimer's and Dementia Journal article here  Getting older just got a little easier. For those who assume that memory loss is part of aging, think again. In fact thinking is what this study is all about. Memory loss and dementia are decreasing among seniors with people over the age of 70 finding less problems in those areas...

Google and Cleveland Clinic Marry in Health Records Experiment

Posted on February 21, 2008
LEARN MORE Google Press Release World Privacy Forum The Cleveland Clinic is a leader in health information technology as well as medical advancements. Google is the world's leading internet search company.  So it makes sense that they are teaming up...

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More Evidence Condemns Trasylol and FDA

Posted on February 21, 2008
LEARN MORE New England Journal of Medicine study, February 21, 2008 Injuryboard on Trasylol  Last Sunday's 60 Minutes profile of the Bayer AG's Trasylol was a clear condemnation of the drug used to reduce bleeding during heart surgeries. Two new studies offer further evidence that the drug leads to an increase in deaths and kidney failure...

Major Setback for Consumers Hurt By Faulty Medical Devices

Posted on February 20, 2008
  LEARN MORE Medtronic Riegel v Medtronic Appeal  60 Minutes Public Citizen and all court documents in the case Injuryboard on medical devices Cornell Law School on the case  Today's Supreme Court decision was a victory for the $75 billion medical device industry...

Code Blue Survival in Hospitals Best On Weekdays

Posted on February 20, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on Cardiac arrest and stroke  American Heart Association  JAMA report on cardiac arrest  If you can choose when to have your heart attack, choose the weekday.  Those who had cardiac arrest in the hospital at night or over the weekend had the poorest outcomes according to U...

Music Soothes and Improves the Stroke Patient

Posted on February 20, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard Help Center and Topics on Stroke  Finnish study in the journal Brain  It makes sense, a little Beethoven is good for the brain according to a Finnish study. And for people recovering from a stroke, a little music can help improve verbal memory, mood and recovery...

Cancer Statistics - A Good News Bad News Story

Posted on February 20, 2008
LEARN MORE 2008 Cancer Facts and Figures Report  Injuryboard Help Center and Topics on Cancer  The good news- overall the death rate in this country from cancer has declined, a trend that began in the early 1990s. The bad news - cancer will kill 565,650 Americans this year...

Heparin Debacle Reveals FDA Flaws

Posted on February 19, 2008
  LEARN MORE Injuryboard on heparin Baxter Healthcare on heparin  FDA on heparin  Last week it was revealed that the FDA failed to inspect the Chinese factory that produces heparin, the contaminated blood-thinning drug that's under a massive U...

Consumer Information Web Site Shut Down

Posted on February 19, 2008
LEARN MORE Judge White Order Wikileaks.org  ZDNet is covering the story Late breaking Wikileaks is back up at 3pm here  Image a web site where scientists could anonymously blow the whistle and leak disturbing results on a new pharmaceutical drug just as it is being approved for the marketplace without fear of retaliation...

Cancer Diagnosis Discriminates

Posted on February 19, 2008
LEARN MORE Medicaid ACS The Lancet Oncology report  You are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage of the disease. You are uninsured or have Medicaid coverage which is available to low-income individuals and families who fit into an eligibility group that is recognized by federal and state law...

Downer Cow Video Results in Biggest Beef Recall

Posted on February 17, 2008
LEARN MORE F.S.I.S.  Humane Society video  Injuryboard on E. coli  143 pounds of meat were recalled Sunday, the largest in history due to lapses in required inspections. Westland/Hallmark Meat Company of Chino is the same company that was the subject of a Humane Society of the United States undercover video shot in October and November that showed abuse on sick "downer" cows being kicked, shocked and speared with a forklift before being slaughtered...

FDA Fails to Regulate - The Story of Joseph Randone and Trasylol

Posted on February 17, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on Trasylol  CBS 60 Minutes see story here  New England Journal of Medicine on Trasylol, January 2006  DIGG comments on Bayer  Joseph Randone, 52 and his wife Josephine joked about the January day he checked into Stony Brook University Hospital for some pre-surgery tests, Friday the 13th...

IB Partner Marc Bern's Trasylol Case Profiled on 60 Minutes

Posted on February 17, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on Trasylol  60 Minutes  Napoli Bern LLP A product liability case against Bayer Pharmaceuticals filed by Marc Bern of Napoli Bern & Associates, LLP will be profiled on 60 Minutes Sunday night, February 17 along with his client, Josephine Randone speaking on behalf of her late husband, Joseph Randone...

Obesity Linked To Cancer

Posted on February 15, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on cancer  The Lancet report Calculate your BMI  As if the obesity epidemic was not cause enough for concern, a British study finds the more overweight you are, the greater your chance of developing cancer. Reporting in The Lancet, the study says the weight issue relates to common cancers such as colon and breast but also to lesser known cancers such as gallbladder...

Would You Like Bacteria With Your Tea?

Posted on February 15, 2008
LEARN MORE YouTube video on nasty iced tea  The next time you get a slice of lemon on the side of your glass of iced tea, you might want to rethink that refreshing squeeze.   A study finds that lemon wedges are contaminated with bacteria. The study is limited to 21 restaurants that students at Passasic County Community College surveyed...

Mandatory MRSA Reporting in California

Posted on February 15, 2008
Image: MRSA LEARN MORE Injuryboard on MRSA CA Dept. of Public Health  Consumers Union Stop Hospital Infections campaign Actress Alicia Cole's MRSA story ( 2 parts)   In an effort to get a handle on antibiotic resistant staph infections that reportedly kill 19,000 a year, California has become the first state to require the illness be reported to local health authorities...

One Mom's Story of the Fatal Choking Game - CDC Reports 82 Deaths

Posted on February 15, 2008
Image: Marcum family photo of L.A (second from right) and his brothers and step father Hank, October 2003 LEARN MORE Choking Game web site  Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play web site  CDC report, February 15, 2008 Morbidity and Mortality  No one knows exactly how many young people have died from playing the deadly "choking game...

More Postpartum Depression With Sons, Study Finds

Posted on February 14, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on postpartum Journal of Clinical Nursing study  Information on post-partum depression  For the first time, a study finds that women who give birth to sons also have more depression.The French study on postpartum depression (PPD) comes from Univesite Nancy...

Occupants Will Be Moved From Toxic Trailers

Posted on February 14, 2008
Image: Fema trailer, New Orleans LEARN MORE Injuryboard on formaldehyde exposure  FEMA on trailers  CDC on trailers  First the homes lost from the 2005 hurricanes of Katrina and Rita. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided about 120,000 trailers to Gulf Coast victims who are still waiting to get their lives back together...

Tainted Heparin Investigation Turns to Chinese Plant

Posted on February 13, 2008
LEARN MORE Injuryboard on heparin  Baxter Healthcare  FDA Feb. 11 announcement  The FDA says it never inspected the Chinese plant that makes Baxter Healthcare's heparin- the same anticoagulant drug that is currently being pulled off the market because of a mysterious contamination that is linked to four deaths and hundreds of illnesses...

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