Personal Injury Law

Two Air Traffic Controllers Suspended Following Hudson River Collision

Posted on August 13, 2009
LEARN MORE NBC News - Video of the collision IB News – Bodies Retrieved After Hudson River Crash – August 2009 NTSB - Press Release on the investigation Federal Aviation Administration IMAGE SOURCE: NBC News Web site/ collision over the Hudson, Saturday August 8, 2009 Two Suspended CNN is reporting that two air traffic controllers, on duty at the time a light plane and helicopter collided over the Hudson River last weekend killing nine, that killed nine over the Hudson River last weekend, have both been suspended...

Do High-Fat Diets Make Us Stupid and Lazy??

Posted on August 13, 2009
LEARN MORE Abstract – Deterioration of physical performance – FASEB Journal, August 10, 2009 What is FASEB? News Release on diet study findings IMAGE SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons/ burger and fries/ author: Jess Sawrey That is the headline of a news release announcing a new study published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal...

Experimental Drugs Easier To Obtain Under New FDA Rules

Posted on August 13, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on FDA & Prescription Drugs FDA Web site – Rules on Investigational Drugs IB News – Ethics Shakeup at FDA – August 09 IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / Rx Drugs / author: pixhook For critically ill patients, experimental or investigational drugs, not yet approved, may hold out the best hope for their desperate condition...

Promising Osteoporosis Drug Reduces Fractures, May Impact Immunity

Posted on August 12, 2009
Reduces Spinal Fractures By 62 Percent LEARN MORE Amgen Press Release on its studies FDA Briefing Information, August 13, 2009 National Osteoporosis Foundation Web site NOF on Jaw Necrosis NOF on Osteoporosis Facts IB News - Osteoporosis Treatment Controversy - August 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ spine x-rays/ author: FotografiaBasica The drug is called denosumab, and it is used to stop the production of cells known as osteoclasts, that breakdown bone leading to osteoporosis...

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Aspirin In The Fight Against Colorectal Cancer

Posted on August 12, 2009
LEARN MORE JAMA – Abstract InjuryBoard Help Center- Colon Cancer American Cancer Society on colon cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Diagram of the stomach, colon and rectum/ author: William Crochot A newly published study finds that taking aspirin regularly may keep colon cancer at bay...

Report: Millions Denied Insurance Coverage For Pre-Existing Medical Conditions

Posted on August 12, 2009
LEARN MORE Coverage Denied: How the Current Health Insurance System Leaves Millions Behind HHS News Release InjuryBoard Health Care Reform News IMAGE SOURCE: © HealthReform...

Wii-Mote Charging Station Recall

Posted on August 12, 2009
LEARN MORE Griffin International Companies CPSC Notice IMAGE SOURCE: CPSC Web site/ underside of Psyclone charging station A consumer alert is being issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The Wii-mote controller can burn your hands and pose a fire hazard if the battery recharging station overheats...

Ethics Shakeups At FDA

Posted on August 12, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News -Medtronic Reveals More Fatalities, April, 2009 IB News – Medical Device Division of FDA Broken, Needs Fixing – April 2009 InjuryBoard News -Injured Support Overturn of Riegel, April 09 FDA - Recall of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads, October 2007 NEJM Editorial - on The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, March 18, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Janet Woodcock, Wall Street Journal Web site Shakeups are underway at the Food and Drug Administration, specifically in the areas of medical devices and drug research...

"Shouting Fire" - Health Care Debate Squelched By Fear Mongers (Part 1)

Posted on August 11, 2009
LEARN MORE AMA- Vision for Health Care Reform Bill Text- Rep. Blumenauer Olbermann- 'Special Comment' Palin's Facebook page IMAGE SOURCE: YouTube, October 2, 2009/ Palin winks at America Fear sells...

Free Health Care Draws Thousands As Nation Debates Need

Posted on August 11, 2009
LEARN MORE RAM Web site A message from Stan Brock RAM schedule for 2009 RAM on '60 Minutes' – March 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Web site/ waiting outside the Forum before dawn RAM in Los Angeles Health care reform has proven a huge challenge for President Obama, not helped by the civil unrest being churned up by at Town Hall meetings by insurance and health care corporations and citizens content with leaving health care alone...

GE Halts Clean Up Amid Rising PCBs In Hudson River

Posted on August 11, 2009
Hudson River GE plant, Image: EPA LEARN MORE Environmental Protection Agency on the Hudson contamination Clean Up GE Web site The New York Department of Environmental Conservation Precautionary Principle IMAGE SOURCE: EPA images Web site / of GE Hudson River plant GE Cleanup Halted Dredging on the Hudson River has been halted over concerns that the probable carcinogen, PCB, is being measured at unsafe levels...

First Fosamax Trial Slated For Today In Manhattan

Posted on August 11, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Fosamax News InjuryBoard on Fosamax WebMD on Bisphosphonate Drugs InjuryBoard on Bone, Joint & Muscle Disorders Center for Osteonecrosis Research & Education IMAGE SOURCE: © Fosamax Web site Pharma giant Merck & Co...

Health Reform Starts With Avoiding Medical Errors

Posted on August 10, 2009
Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200K Deaths a year LEARN MORE Dead By Mistake report State-By-State - Report on medical errors Institute of Medicine- on medical errors "To Err is Human" – report by IOM American Medical Association Web site The Center for Responsive Politics IMAGE SOURCE: Death By Mistake Victims, SF Chronicle Web site/ image of Diane Rizk McCabe Sharon Moore Trevor Nelson and son 'Dead By Mistake,' a report issued Monday by journalists working for the Hearst Corporation, finds that the preventable medical death toll approaches 200,000 a year...

Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200K Deaths A Year

Posted on August 10, 2009
LEARN MORE Dead By Mistake report State-By-State - Report on medical errors Institute of Medicine- on medical errors To Err is Human – report by IOM American Medical Association Web site The Center for Responsive Politics IMAGE SOURCE: Death By Mistake Web site/ map of states An investigation by journalists working for the Hearst Corporation reports that 200,000 Americans will die this year from mistakes made by doctors and in hospitals...

Bodies Retrieved After Hudson River Crash

Posted on August 10, 2009
Renewed Calls for Safety Over City LEARN MORE NTSB - Press Release on the investigation Federal Aviation Administration   IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ Retrieving helicopter parts, Sunday August 9 Divers in the murky waters of the Hudson River have retrieved seven bodies after a weekend mid-air crash...

Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death Autopsy Finds

Posted on August 07, 2009
LEARN MORE IB Help Center - Oxycodone, OxyContin IB Partner- Houston, Hydrocodone IB Help Center - Painkillers IB News - Death of Heath Ledger, February 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: CBS News Web site/ Billy Mays First it was reported that TV pitchman Billy Mays, who died in June at the age of 50, had hit his head during a turbulent landing on a flight into Tampa...

Women DUIs Are Up

Posted on August 07, 2009
LEARN MORE MADD - Web site IB News – Wrong-Way Mom Drove Drunk, Stoned – August 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Drunk Driving Accidents NHTSA Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Newsday Web site, minivan of Diane Schuler, July 26, 2009 The ultimate form of child abuse...

825,000 Pounds of Salmonella Beef Recalled

Posted on August 07, 2009
LEARN MORE CDC on Salmonella Colorado Department of Public Health - News Release Beef Packers Inc. Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ USDA image of ground beef inspection Salmonella Newport Safeway Stores, the large grocer of the western U...

CDC Documents Forecast Fight Over Vaccines

Posted on August 06, 2009
Internal Documents LEARN MORE National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Web site IB News – Parents Say California Autism Study is Flawed – January 2008 Age of Autism SafeMinds CDC - - Vaccine talking points National Autism Association IB News - Study Links Low birth Weight to Autism On Eve of March on Washington – June 2008 Moms Against Mercury FDA on thimerosal free vaccines CA law on influenza vaccine CA law that removes mercury from childhood vaccines IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ child inner world/ author: Grabpa Internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) media talking points offer a peak behind the curtain of the struggle ahead in convincing the public about the need for vaccines to fight swine flu...

Osteoporosis Treatment Controversy

Posted on August 06, 2009
Does Cement Work?  LEARN MORE NEJM - Abstract on Vertebroplasty National Osteoporosis Foundation Web site IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ spine x-rays/ author: FotografiaBasica It is a treatment that uses an acrylic cement to harden bones in the spinal column weakened by the bone-thinning disorder, osteoporosis...

Lawsuit Documents Reveal Ghostwriters Penned Accolades For Wyeth

Posted on August 06, 2009
Writing For Dollars LEARN MORE PLoS – Discusses Ghostwriting Public Justice- Access to Justice Campaign Public Justice – in support of PLoS, Motion for Access to Discovery InjuryBoard News – Merck Busted for Ghostwriting – April 2008 InjuryBoard on HRT IB News on Breast Cancer IB, Christopher Nace, Washington, D...

Merck, Schering Reach Vytorin Settlement

Posted on August 05, 2009
LEARN MORE Merck News Release InjuryBoard Vytorin News InjuryBoard on Vytorin InjuryBoard on Cholesterol Drugs FDA on Vytorin IB News - Bad News Cholesterol Drug Data Withheld, Jan...

Wrong-Way Mom Drove Drunk, Stoned Before Killing Seven, Self

Posted on August 05, 2009
Drunk, High LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - on Drunk Driving Accidents Alcoholism Community - Blog Alcoholics Anonymous Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Newsday Web site/ the Schuler family Diane Schuler was a 36-year-old suburban housewife from Long Island, New York who apparently was hiding a deep secret...

World Trade Attack Health Effects Linger

Posted on August 05, 2009
World Trade Attacks LEARN MORE  JAMA Abstract  NYC Health Department- Press release IB News - Ground Zero Lawsuits to begin in 2010 - December 2008 InjuryBoard on Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome World Trade Center Health registry CDC on World Trade Center Response   IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / World Trade Center Aerial View (March 2001) / author: Jeffmock   September 11, 2001...

FDA - TNF Blockers Raise Cancer Risk In Kids

Posted on August 04, 2009
LEARN MORE FDA News Release FDA Follow Up To June 2008 Early Communication IB News, FDA Probes Arthritis Drug and Cancer Reports in Kids, June 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © Johnson & Johnson's Remicade Web site The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring stronger warnings in the prescribing information for a class of drugs known as TNF blockers used to treat arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, because they can increase the risk of cancer in children and adolescents...

Study - Brain Activities Delay Onset of Memory Decline

Posted on August 04, 2009
LEARN MORE Neurology - Cognitive Activities Delay Onset of Memory Decline in Persons who Develop Dementia, August 2009 IB News, Later Retirement May Delay Dementia, May 2009 InjuryBoard on Dementia IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ progressive dementia patient/ author: Dr...

Contaminated Skin Sanitizers Seized By U.S. Marshals

Posted on August 03, 2009
LEARN MORE FDA News Release Infectious Disease Society of America IMAGE SOURCE: © FDA logo The U...

Gym Classes See Hike In Child Injuries

Posted on August 03, 2009
LEARN MORE   Pediatrics- Abstract Center for Injury Research and Policy Web site   IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ children playing in class/ author: Rivendellstudios     A new study just published in the medical journal Pediatrics reports a 150% increase in injuries sustained by students in school gym classes in the last 10 years...

Millions Of Kids Lacking Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin

Posted on August 03, 2009
LEARN MORE Pediatrics - Vitamin D Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the United States Adolescent Population Pediatrics - Prevalence and Associations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency in US Children: NHANES 2001–2004 NIH on Vitamin D U...

Health Care Tough Sell At Town Hall

Posted on August 03, 2009
Town Hall Booed LEARN MORE H.R. 3200 OMB on health care reform IB News - Insurance Insider Goes Public- July 2009 IB Blog, Jeff Rasansky, Dallas - Top 10 Worse Insurance Companies July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ health insurance/ author: DNY59 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell facing lawmakers over passage of health care reforms...

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