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Comparison of Free Online Storage Sites

Posted on December 30, 2009
I've been checking out online backup storage for my office, and I have found many possible solutions. Worth checking out is a post on Lifehacker that compares many of the sites.Take a look here, and good luck with your selection.

Recall of Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplets

Posted on December 30, 2009
A voluntary recall of Tylenol Arthritis pain caplets is being expanded because of consumer reports of a moldy odor.The recall affects the 100-count bottles. The FDA says the recall is specific to bottles with the distinctive red "EZ open" cap.It's based on consumer reports of a foul smell on the medicine associated with nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea...

Twitter: Value for your Law Practice?

Posted on December 30, 2009
Image via CrunchBaseI just completed my first year using Twitter.com. Twitter is -- reduced to its most basic - a real time scroller (like the ones you see on FOX News and CNN) for the goings on in life - news, rumors, gossip, etc. That holds true today...

From NPR: How A Bone Disease Grew To Fit The Prescription (Fosamax)

Posted on December 28, 2009
Interesting read at NPR about Osteoporosis and Fosamax. Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become thinner, more porous and break more easily. It mostly affects elderly women, who can be devastated by a fall that breaks their hip. One in five elderly women who break a hip will die within a year...

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FDA: No Cancer Link to Vytorin

Posted on December 28, 2009
The FDA says an extensive data review shows there's no evidence that Merck's cholesterol drug Vytorin causes cancer, a suspicion raised last year by a patient study.Still, the Food and Drug Administration says it cannot definitively rule out whether Vytorin is linked to a higher risk of cancer or death from cancer...

Nestle Gets FDA Letter Regarding Boost

Posted on December 28, 2009
In an early December letter to Nestle, the FDA told the company that it had mislabeled its Boost drink, which comes in flavors like chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, ?as a medical food for the medical condition of ?failure to thrive? and also for ?pre/post surgery, injury or trauma, chronic illnesses...

IKEA High Chair Recall

Posted on December 26, 2009
IKEA Home Furnishings is recalling LEOPARD Highchairs sold exclusively at IKEA stores nationwide from October 2009 to November 2009. The snap locks used to secure the seat to the frame can break and allow the seat and child to drop through the frame, posing a fall hazard...

Polaris ATV Recall

Posted on December 26, 2009
Polaris Industries Inc. is recalling 2009-2010 Polaris All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) sold nationwide from February 2009 to November 2009. The front suspension ball joint stem can separate from the steering knuckle and cause the rider to lose steering control, posing a risk of injury or death...

AstraZeneca?s Swine Flu Nasal Spray Recalled for Lower Potency

Posted on December 26, 2009
AstraZeneca Plc recalled 4.7 million doses of its nasal spray version of the swine flu vaccine after routine tests showed a decline in potency, U.S. regulators said.The doses remain safe, and people who have already been inoculated don?t need to get vaccinated again, said Norman Baylor, director of vaccines research and review for the U...

Prempro Verdict: $8 Million

Posted on December 26, 2009
A Philadelphia jury in January 2007 awarded Mary Daniel compensatory damages of $1.5 million in her lawsuit against Pfizer?s Wyeth subsidiary over its Prempro menopause treatment. The panel recommended she get more than $8 million in punitive damages if an appeals court found she was entitled to such an award because of bad conduct by the company, people with direct knowledge of the figure said...

Does Chelation Therapy Cause Heart Injuries?

Posted on December 21, 2009
Chelation therapy is a recognized treatment for heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. EDTA (Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) is injected into the blood and binds the metals, allowing them to be removed from the body in the urine.A potent chelator of cations, especially calcium, it is FDA-approved only for rapid, emergency treatments of hypercalcemia or digitalis toxicity,and for those indications it has long been obsolete...

M-Drol and P-Plex -Link to Liver Injuries?

Posted on December 19, 2009
Both M-Drol and P-Plex were supplements were marketed on the Internet by a company in Galveston, Texas called TF Supplements.Some say that the main ingredients in M-Drol and P-Plex are methylated compounds known to cause liver damage. It has been claimed that the supplements were manufactured by a company called Competitive Edge Labs, a foreign corporation working in Virginia...

Law Tech: 2009's Most Useful Tech Items

Posted on December 18, 2009
Here are five tech apps/hardware that I think are "best" when it comes to helping my office in the practice and business of law:1.iPhone- I'm old enough to remember when computers for lawyers were a rarity. In 1991 I remember an older partner literally yelling at me that "computers are for secretaries!" when he saw a PC on my desk...

Yaz and Gallbladder Link?

Posted on December 15, 2009
In order to understand a possibly connection between Yaz and gallbladder problems and gallstones, it is important to review why stones form in the first place. A liver produces bile salts and sends them to your gallbladder through the common hepatic and cystic ducts...

SCOTUS to review Texting Privacy Ruling

Posted on December 15, 2009
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari regaarding a federal appeals court in California that reading text messages sent on devices provided by the employer violated the worker's privacy rights and amounted to an "unreasonable search" barred by the U...

Roman Blind Recall

Posted on December 15, 2009
The federal government - via the CPSC - has issued a recall of Roman Blinds that they could suffocate kids.For the first time, the safety commission now recommends using only cordless window treatments in any home where children live or visit, such as a grandparent's house or day care center...

Another Recall on an OTC Cold Remedy

Posted on December 15, 2009
The FDA reports that P&G has made a voluntary recall of specific lots of their Vicks brand nasal spray in the US, Germany and the UK.The recall comes as a result of P&G finding the bacteria B. cepacia in these particular batches. There have been no reports of illness, and most healthy individuals should not be effected from this bacteria; however, the bacteria could cause serious illness in those with compromised immune systems such as those with Cystic Fibrosis or other chronic lung conditions...

Antidepressants May Raise Women's Stroke Risk

Posted on December 15, 2009
That, according to a report released this week.You may find the abstract at the Archives of Internal Medicine. Older women who ingest such antidepressants may have a small but statistically significant increased risk of stroke and death compared to women not on the medications, a new study finds...

Slim-Fast Recall

Posted on December 14, 2009
Image via WikipediaThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a nationwide recall on cans of Slim-Fast ready to drink beverages because of a possible contamination with Bacillus cereus, a microorganism that can cause infected people to suffer from diarrhea, nausea and vomiting...

FDA Investigating Brain Scans

Posted on December 14, 2009
Federal health regulators are investigating reports of dangerous radiation levels at two more California hospitals, following earlier unsafe medical scans at a Los Angeles facility.The Food and Drug Administration is probing the use of CT scans at Glendale Adventist Medical Center and Providence St...

First Gadolinium Trial Set to Begin in early 2010

Posted on December 14, 2009
On Monday a suit against Bayer Healthcare will begin in January, in front of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow. Peter Gerber's lawsuit accuses Bayer of negligently designing, testing and marketing Magnevist, a drug used to help doctors read MRIs, is one of hundreds of suits in California and elsewhere alleging that diagnostic drugs containing gadolinium have caused nephrogenic systemic fibrosis...

FDA Warning on Steris Sterilizer

Posted on December 14, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration has warned doctors and hospital administrators that a widely used surgical tool sterilizer made by Mentor-based Steris no longer has the agency's "safe and effective" stamp and should not be used.The product, called System 1, is used to sterilize medical tools such as endoscopes, bronchoscopes and other devices...

Alka Seltzer Recall

Posted on December 14, 2009
Bayer Healthcare is recalling 100,000 packages of Alka-Seltzer cold capsules because some lack warnings of possible drowsiness. The recall applies to Alka-Seltzer Plus Day & Night Liquid Gels. Bayer blamed the label omission on human error and said steps are being taken to prevent this from happening again...

Dietary Supplement Recall

Posted on December 14, 2009
Atlas Operations Inc. is recalling dietary supplements for sexual enhancement sold under about 37 brand names. The products might contain an ingredient not declared on their labels. The undeclared ingredient is similar to a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug used to treat erectile dysfunction, making these recalled products not approved drugs...

Trucking: Speed Limits to in crease

Posted on December 13, 2009
Image via WikipediaA new law takes effect next month increasing the speed limit for semi truck drivers from 55 to 65 miles per hour, but there are differing opinions on whether the new law is a good one."If everyone goes the same speed, it has to be safer," he said...

FDA Fails to make safety changes Post Vioxx

Posted on December 13, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.That's according to congressional investigators who found that the FDA has yet to follow through on changes suggested in 2006 to help the agency detect problems with drugs taken by millions of Americans...

Voltaren Gel (diclofenac sodium topical gel) 1% - Hepatic Effects Labeling Changes

Posted on December 07, 2009
Endo, Novartis and FDA notified healthcare professionals of revisions to the Hepatic Effects section of the prescribing information to add new warnings and precautions about the potential for elevation in liver function tests during treatment with all products containing diclofenac sodium...

Lawsuit: Denture Cream Caused Illness

Posted on November 30, 2009
From the Denver Post:Doctors and specialists spent two years testing Rae Ann Schmaltz, initially believing she had multiple sclerosis but later looking for anything, including tropical diseases and Lou Gehrig's disease. She endured endless poking and prodding, including 160 blood tests, urine tests, MRIs, even spinal taps...

Federal Rules of Civ. Pro.: Computation of Time/Date Changes on 12/9/09

Posted on November 24, 2009
From the Judicial Conference Report:?The principal simplifying change in the amended time-computation rules is the adoption of a ?days-are-days? approach to computing all time periods. Under some of the current rules, intermediate weekends and holidays are omitted when computing short periods but included when computing longer periods...

Vicks Nasal Spray Recall

Posted on November 24, 2009
The Procter & Gamble Company has announced it is voluntarily recalling three lots of its Vicks Sinex nasal spray in three countries: the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.The company said it is taking this precautionary step after finding the bacteria B...

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