Personal Injury Law

Safety Group Pushes For Cell Phone Driving Ban

Posted on January 11, 2009
LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on teen drivers and cell phones Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on Cell Phone Laws Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on Teens Ignoring Cell Phone Ban Center for Auto Safety v...

California Consumers Off The Hook In ER Fee Disputes

Posted on January 09, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard News -  ER directives Injuryboard News - Long ER waits   California Department of Managed Health Care   California Medical Association IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ emergency sign/ author: © BradenGunem   A medical emergency forces you to go to a California emergency room...

Billion Dollar Punitive Verdicts A Thing Of The Past

Posted on January 09, 2009
LEARN MORE Billion dollar award 2004 Injuryboard on the history of the tort system National Center for State Courts  Injuryboard News on Engle individual cases Injuryboard on federal preemption    IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockPhoto/ courtroom gavel   The "King of Torts" may be a thing of the past...

Another Setback for Gardasil

Posted on January 09, 2009
LEARN MORE Judicial Watch on Gardasil  Injuryboard on Judicial Watch reports  Read the adverse reports  CDC promotion of Gardasil  FDA approval of Gardasil, June 2006  Gardasil package insert  Injuryboard on Merck seeking fast track  VAERS  FDA promotion of Gardasil  CDC/FDA on Gardasil safety  FDA full page PDF on Gardasil by Merck     IMAGE SOURCE: © ©iStockphoto/ girl being vaccinated/ author: pflorendo   Merck & Co has had high hopes for its cervical cancer drug, Gardasil...

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Study: Antipsychotics Increase Mortality in Alzheimer's Patients

Posted on January 09, 2009
LEARN MORE The Lancet Neurology InjuryBoard on Alzheimer’s Disease InjuryBoard News on Alzheimer’s InjuryBoard Help Center on Alzheimer’s InjuryBoard on Antipsychotics Alzheimer’s Association NIMH: Antipsychotic Medications IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / close up render of neuron brain cell / author: Henrik5000 A new study, published in Lancet Neurology, suggests long-term use of antipsychotic drugs in patient’s that have Alzheimer’s disease nearly doubles their rate of death after one year, adding to safety concerns already known about this class of medications...

CDC: Teen Birth Rates Significantly Increase

Posted on January 08, 2009
LEARN MORE Births: Final Data for 2006 (pdf) Study Links Sexual Content On TV To Teen Pregnancy Should Contraceptives Be Allowed In School? NIH on Safe Sex IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto/ pregnant teen / ArtisticCaptures Teen birth rates significantly increased in 26 of the 50 states in 2006, according to a newly released report by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics...

Quest Lab Error Gives False Vitamin D Results

Posted on January 08, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard- Help Center on Vitamin D overload Injuryboard on vitamin D and cardiovascular risk NIH on vitamin D   U.S.D.A. on vitamin D foods  Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine    IMAGE SOURCE:© iStockPhoto/ girl in meadow/ author: arphotokike   As consumers take their own health into their own hands, many are opting to have their vitamin D levels tested...

Setback For Eli Lilly Over Controversial Schizophrenia Drug

Posted on January 08, 2009
LEARN MORE Eli Lilly Injuryboard News on Zyprexa class-action, September 08 Injuryboard News - Zyprexa and adolescent use  Injuryboard - Background on Zyprexa- Olanzapine Lilly on Zyprexa Zyprexa Insert FDA on Zyprexa Zyprexa Victims  InjuryBoard on Zyprexa  InjuryBoard on Antipsychotics  Zyprexa Raises Death in Dementia Patients   IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / Zyprexa / author: Zozza   The drug is known generically as olanzapine, one of the first "atypical antipsychotics" or second-generation antipsychotic drugs on the market...

Safety Fears Slow Prescription Drug Growth

Posted on January 08, 2009
LEARN MORE Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  FDA - black box warning for anti-depressants Injuryboard News - Amendments Act 2007 Injuryboard - Help Center on Avoiding Drug Injury   IMAGE SOURCE:© iStockphoto/ pouring pills/ author: VisualField   Prescription drugs still fall in the plus column as a category for consumer spending, but last year retail spending on prescription slowed to the lowest rate in more than 40 years...

Mentor ObTape The Focus Of Growing Number of Lawsuits

Posted on January 07, 2009
LEARN MORE J. of Urology - Summary of ObTape study FDA on Surgical mesh J & J announcement on Mentor  FDA - Adverse Event Reporting or 1-800-FDA-1088 Injuryboard Help Center - Ob Tape Sling Injuryboard- Blog on ObTape   IMAGE SOURCE:  ©iStockphoto/ woman suffering pain/ author: Peepo   So far 32 lawsuits have been filed against the Mentor Corporation of Santa Barbara, California, with more in the pipeline over its withdrawn medical device ObTape...

Federal Judge Cites Preemption In Dismissal Of Medtronic Suits

Posted on January 07, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard News coverage of federal pre-emption - See what everyone is talking about Commentary - Federal Preemption & Complete Immunity for Negligent Corporations Injuryboard blog on Levine issues InjuryBoard on Medtronic Defective Defibrillator Lawsuits Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillator Leads IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto/ courtroom gavel Several lawsuits on behalf of thousands of patients with Medtronic heart-defibrillator wires that have been known to fracture and dispatch potentially lethal shocks to the patient, have been dismissed by a federal judge...

Rest Time For Pilots At Center Of Lawsuit

Posted on January 07, 2009
  LEARN MORE Airline Pilots Association   IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikimedia Commons/ Delta 757 taking off Reagan Washington Airport/ author: Carl Lindburg   You want the pilot of the plane on which you are about to embark to be well rested. Seven U.S...

Preterm Births Affect Newborn Health

Posted on January 07, 2009
LEARN MORE NEJM Abstract on pre-term births  Journal of Pediatrics,  December  J. of Pediatrics  - School outcome in late preterm infants Injuryboard on premature infant drugs  Injuryboard on children's health matters  Injuryboard on SIDS     IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ premature baby in incubator, Iraq, September 2004/ U...

Salmonella Outbreak Hits 42 States And Growing

Posted on January 07, 2009
LEARN MORE CDC on salmonella   IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikimedia Commons/ salmonella invades human cells/ author: Nutloaf    A salmonella outbreak has hospitalized 67 people and sickened almost 400 around the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 42 states have reported cases...

Red Cactus Beetle Ingredient To Be Labeled

Posted on January 07, 2009
    LEARN MORE Federal Register - FDA ruling on coloring, January 5, 2009 CSPI statement on bug dye   IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons, Dried female cochineal insects/ author Sprinky   The label on candies, yogurts, ice cream, or make-up might include a generic mention of "food dye" in the ingredients, nothing that would raise any more eyebrows than the countless other unpronounceable and unknown ingredients used on a daily basis...

Drug Advertisements Not Reviewed By FDA

Posted on January 06, 2009
LEARN MORE Report a complaint: FDA's Division of DDMAC DDMAC  phone - 301-796-1200 FDA Promotion Web site   IMAGE SOURCE: Claritin Web site    You've seen the ads for medications - people skipping through the fields, "Claritin Clear," or playing in a band, "Viva Viagra," or trying to fight plaque buildup they get from Fettuccine Alfredo and Uncle Alfredo...

Seizure Official Cause Of Death Of Travolta Teen

Posted on January 06, 2009
LEARN MORE Mayo Clinic on Kawasaki disease  Epilepsy Foundation  Travolta web site  Injuryboard News on Travolta  Kawasaki disease and seizures   IMAGE SOURCE: Times online Web site   The official cause of death of Jett Travolta is listed simply as "seizure...

Journalism Downsizing Casualty In Right To Know About Pharma

Posted on January 06, 2009
LEARN MORE Pharmalot  blog  Newark Star-Ledger Newhouse - Advance Publications Current- on media consolidation Free Press  - on the media  IMAGE SOURCE:  YouTube It started out as a side venture for veteran reporter Ed Silverman of the Newark Star-Ledger...

Simple Shifts In Diet Begin In Grocery Store

Posted on January 05, 2009
LEARN MORE Grocery Manufacturers of America "Eat This Not That!" IMAGE SOURCE:  Today show on NBC    Going through a grocery store you should be hearing the theme music from 'Jaws" rather than elevator music, says two food critics.

The Year Of The Un-Diet

Posted on January 05, 2009
LEARN MORE Linda Bacon Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight Top 10 Healthiest Diets IMAGE SOURCE: Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon Most people are making self promises to skip skimp on the carbohydrates, jump on the treadmill more and eat more fruits and vegetables in an effort to meet their New Year’s resolution of being healthier and slimmer...

Flu Vaccine Mandatory For New Jersey Children

Posted on January 05, 2009
LEARN MORE New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice Text of NJ vaccine exemption bill  Injuryboard Help Center- thimerosal FDA on flu shot ingredients  Families Fighting Flu web site  Injuryboard on influenza    IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ child getting shot/ author: RB Fried   Toddlers and little children returning to school this week will unknowingly become the focus of an emotional debate between public health advocates and child health advocates...

Hopeful Breast Cancer Trial of Immunotherapy

Posted on January 05, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard News on immunotherapy Injuryboard Help Center on breast cancer  Breast Cancer vaccine magazine story    IMAGE SOURCE:   Seek magazine story  Clinical trials should begin this spring on a new vaccine directed at preventing recurring breast cancer...

Kawasaki Disease, Seizures Affected Travolta Teen

Posted on January 05, 2009
LEARN MORE Mayo Clinic on Kawasaki disease Epilepsy Foundation Travolta web site   IMAGE SOURCE: Times online Web site   An autopsy will be conducted today on Jett Travolta, the 16-year old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston. He died after apparently suffering a seizure and hitting his head on a bathtub in the family's vacation home in Nassau, Bahamas...

Study Finds Teens Reveal Too Much Information On MySpace

Posted on January 05, 2009
LEARN MORE Social Networking Sites Display of Health Risk Behaviors on MySpace by Adolescents Reducing At-Risk Adolescents' Display of Risk Behavior on a Social Networking Web Site CDC: Black, White Teens Less Risky, Hispanics More Risky Behavior Is Your Teen Sexting? IMAGE SOURCE: MySpace...

New Year, New Laws For Sales Of Cigarettes

Posted on January 04, 2009
\ LEARN MORE Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes NFPA InjuryBoard News on Cigarettes InjuryBoard on Cigarettes & Tobacco CDC on Smoking & Tobacco Use American Cancer Society InjuryBoard on Lung Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes, coordinated by NFPA The new year brings changes in laws for sales of cigarettes...

Stories of Corruption and Big Pharma

Posted on January 02, 2009
LEARN MORE Injuryboard News on Dr. Joseph Biederman    IMAGE SOURCE:  iStock photo, copyright The New York Times looks at three books that basically focus on the same thing - how we've been co-opted into believing that there is "a pill for every ill" by billion dollar drug companies, which buy favorable opinion by leading medical authorities...

Dental Prevention Treatment Suggested For Those On Bone-Loss Drugs

Posted on January 02, 2009
LEARN MORE American Dental Association study on jaw necrosis, January 2009 Fosamax Web site FosaMax Insert  Bisphosphonates Safety Review 2007  Injuryboard Help Center - Fosamax InjuryBoard on Osteoporosis  InjuryBoard on Bone, Joint & Muscle Disorders  Center for Osteonecrosis Research & Education   IMAGE SOURCE: Zometa  Web site   Bone loss among post-menopausal people is very common and so are prescriptions for bisphosphonates, which slow bone loss and rebuild bone in those facing osteoporosis...

Smoke-Free Laws Cut Hospitalizations For Everyone

Posted on January 02, 2009
LEARN MORE CDC report  Surgeon General report on SHS, 2006 NEJM article Injuryboard on cigarettes and tobacco Injuryboard on Florida Tobacco lawsuits IMAGE SOURCE:  Wikimedia Commons. Marlboro cigarettes   Implementing smoke-free laws in public places, appears to cut down on the number of hospitalizations for heart attacks...

Harvard Anti-Aging Researcher On The Hotseat

Posted on December 31, 2008
  LEARN MORE Injuryboard News on Sirtris and resveratrol research Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Shaklee video on Vivix Shaklee Vivix Web site Injuryboard on Resveratrol and rheumatoid arthritis  Injuryboard on heart aging and wine  Injuryboard on Diabetes and resveratrol  Injuryboard on Diabetes and Anti-Aging & Wine  IMAGE SOURCE: Charlie Rose interview with David Sinclair, Charlie Rose LLC   David Sinclair is a Harvard researcher who works in the area of anti-aging, a hot area for research for Baby Boomers who are fighting it all the way...

Harvard Psychiatrist Must Suspend Clinical Trials Over Conflicts

Posted on December 31, 2008
LEARN MORE Harvard on Conflicts of Interest  What Doctors Think survey  Boston Globe profile on Dr. Biederman  IMAGE SOURCE:  Harvard University Bio on Dr. Biederman Drug makers hoping to find a sympathetic ear in controversial Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman will have to turn elsewhere...

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