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FDA Cites Testosterone Gels for Physical Changes in Children

Posted on May 08, 2009
Washington, DC: Children grow up way too fast anyway, without having to contend with enlarged genitalia and other adverse effects caused by secondary exposure to topical testosterone gel products. Yesterday the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that two prescription testosterone medications would be required to carry black box warnings.

First Salmonella Rissen Spice Lawsuit Filed

Posted on May 08, 2009
Houston, TX: The first lawsuit has been filed in the US stemming from a multi-state salmonella spice recall after an outbreak related to Lian How and Uncle Chen's spices manufactured by Union International Food Company of Union City, California. The spices contained Salmonella Rissen - a very rare but potent strain of salmonella.

Hydroxycut, Fen-phen and Ephedra: The Weight Loss Nightmare

Posted on May 08, 2009
Houston, TX: If you have been using dietary supplements to aid in your weight loss, then you are by now probably aware of the recent Hydroxycut recall announced by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Iovate Health Sciences. The recall was announced after the FDA received reports of serious Hydroxycut side effects, including liver failure.

Buffalo Plane Crash Hearings Set to Begin

Posted on May 07, 2009
Buffalo, NY: On May 12, the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) 3-day public hearing into the plane crash in Clarence Center in New York is set to begin. The airplane crash took the lives of all 49 people on the plane and 1 person on the ground...

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Homeowners with Chinese Drywall to Get Assistance

Posted on May 07, 2009
Washington, DC: Congress passed federal legislation today to financially assist homeowners with Chinese Drywall. In an amendment to the "Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act" the legislation calls for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Treasury Department to study the problem and report their findings and recommendations within 120 days-good news for many homeowners faced with foreclosure because of defective drywall.

Michigan Law No Antidote for Levaquin Side Effects

Posted on May 07, 2009
Sheridan, MI: The only thing she did wrong was consent to undergo knee surgery. If it weren't for the surgery, Nancy Luckhurst wouldn't have been prescribed the Levaquin antibiotic that gave her pain in both knees and left her with Levaquin side effects...

Reglan Sickness "A Horrible Feeling"

Posted on May 07, 2009
Lake Isabella, CA: Kathleen E. says she does not believe she suffered the same Reglan side effects that other people have reported experiencing. Such side effects include Tardive Dyskinesia, a serious condition marked by involuntary movement. A Reglan black box warning has been announced to alert patients to the potential for development of Tardive Dyskinesia in patients who take Reglan long term.

Asbestos Mesothelioma and VA Hospital Employees

Posted on May 07, 2009
Murfreesboro, TN: Airborne asbestos fibers are a known cause of asbestos mesothelioma. So, it would follow that reducing the presence of asbestos and any associated risk of airborne fibers would be the safe and sensible thing to do. Recently, it was discovered that the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Murfreesboro has old piping in the basement covered in asbestos, which has likely put hospital employees working in that area at risk.

Concerns after Raptiva Withdrawal

Posted on May 06, 2009
McComb Township, MI: Withdrawing Raptiva from the market due to the possible risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) has left many psoriasis sufferers anxious and concerned. Some users of this psoriasis drug have been taking it for several years and are just now finding out that they might be at risk...

California Labor Law Teeth Worth $13.5 Million

Posted on May 06, 2009
Los Angeles, CA: How effective are California labor laws? When you can ding an employer for $13 million dollars-plus, it suggests ample teeth in California state labor law. But there needs to be, especially when one hears the story of how workers were sorely exploited in direct contravention to California labor employment law.

Two Crossed Wires Can Make a Defective Car

Posted on May 06, 2009
Farmington Hills, MI: The very component that could save your life in a serious vehicular crash could fail due to an auto defect involving various Jeep models. The defective automobile has an issue with an airbag control that could fail and 47,000 units of the defective car have been recalled.

Patients Allegedly Over-Billed for Out Of Network Medical Care

Posted on May 05, 2009
New York, NY: It is probably little surprise to anybody who has dealt with health insurance companies that once again those companies are being accused of less than honest business practices. This time, those practices involve out of network physicians and the ways that insurance companies decide on reimbursement rates for out of network medical care.

"What Percentage of Sulfur is Acceptable in Chinese Drywall?"

Posted on May 05, 2009
Jupiter, FL: Kerrie wants to know what percentage of sulfur in drywall is acceptable; she sent a sample of her drywall to a lab for testing because she is about 100 percent certain that Chinese drywall was used in her five-year-old condo.

Peanut Salmonella Litigation Status

Posted on May 05, 2009
Washington, DC: Increasingly, more individuals across the United States have reported that they contracted Salmonella Typhimurium from peanut butter and peanut products, namely from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), Kellogg Company, and Kanan Enterprises, Inc.

Is Director Overlap on Google and Apple Boards Antitrust?

Posted on May 05, 2009
Washington DC: The presence of two high-powered directors overlapping on 'friendly' corporations that are increasingly competing with one another is raising the yellow flags with watchers of antitrust laws. It was revealed this morning in the New York Times that Google and Apple share two members amongst their boards of directors-a potential violation of antitrust policy where it pertains to the Antitrust Act.

Supplements Containing Ephedra Linked to Serious Side Effects

Posted on May 04, 2009
Jefferson City, MO: The recent Hydroxycut recall may have called into question the safety and efficacy of weight loss supplements, but the truth is that such supplements have been called into question before. In 2003, Hydroxycut, at the time manufactured by MuscleTech Research and Development, faced lawsuits related to the supplement's inclusion of the ingredient Ephedra.

Nissan Infiniti Customers Slam the Brakes on Customer Satisfaction

Posted on May 04, 2009
Franklin, TN: When you buy what is generally believed to be a high-end vehicle, you assume that all components are equally high-end. However that does not appear to be the case with Infiniti G35 and Infiniti brakes, which owners appear to be replacing at a frequency they're not accustomed to...

New Study Links Gadolinium to NSF in Kidney Patients

Posted on May 04, 2009
Washington, DC: New evidence suggests a causal link between Gadolinium Based Contrast agents-(GBCA, routinely used in MRI procedures)-and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with advanced kidney disease. While the risk for complications from Gadolinium MRI scans have long been suspected, this latest data supports a Gadolinium-NSF link.

Avandia Decline Not Affecting GlaxoSmithKline

Posted on May 03, 2009
Philadelphia, PA: While profits may have been down in the first quarter when compared to a year ago, Avandia manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo) appears to be doing well. And while the risk for Avandia heart attack and other Avandia side effects continues for Type 2 diabetes patients-and critics continue to lobby for an Avandia recall-Glaxo's own health appears to be stable, if not robust.

It's a Match - Salmonella from Pistachios Linked to Illnesses

Posted on May 03, 2009
Washington, DC: On March 26, 2009 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed the Center for Disease Control (CDC) that multiple samples of pistachios and pistachio-containing products collected from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc, of Terra Bella, California were contaminated with several serotypes of Salmonella, including Montevideo, Newport, and Senftenberg...

More Drugs Associated with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS)

Posted on May 03, 2009
Washington, DC: A litany of over-the-counter drugs can cause Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), the most common being Ibuprofen, anti-convulsants (such as Dilantin); antibiotics and Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Recently the biopharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc...

Levaquin Patient May Require Surgery

Posted on May 02, 2009
Lepanto, AK: Patients who have taken the Levaquin antibiotic once or twice may know the pain of Levaquin side effects. Levaquin has been linked to an increased risk of tendonitis and tendon ruptures. However, for some people the link between the Levaquin medicine and tendonitis was not made in time...

Hydroxycut Recalled After Death Reported

Posted on May 02, 2009
Washington, DC: The Hydroxycut recall announced yesterday over concern for Hydroxycut liver damage not only serves to mount concern over the Hydroxycut supplement; it also raises the issue of regulatory limitations. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which warned consumers about the dietary supplement yesterday, does not carry the same degree of authority it has over pharmaceutical drugs...

Unum Frowns on Fibromyalgia

Posted on May 02, 2009
Seattle, WA: Tracy suffers from fibromyalgia-a chronic disorder that includes debilitating fatigue, sleep disturbance, joint stiffness and many more symptoms. But Unum sees fibromyalgia syndrome as a "non disease", possibly due to a lack of objective laboratory tests or medical imaging studies to confirm the diagnosis...

"On Call" Restrictions an Issue with California IT Overtime

Posted on May 02, 2009
San Francisco, CA: Alan works for a goliath IT company and he is often required to do 24/7 "on-call" shifts, but the company says they are not required to pay California IT Overtime. This similar rationale applies to just about any position related to information technology...

Dangerous Gas Pedal Revs Up Again

Posted on May 01, 2009
Houston, TX: Thousands of owners of Ford Super Duty Pickup Trucks and Expedition sport utility vehicles will have a chance to make Ford replace the gas pedal in some 300,000 to 500,000 vehicles manufactured between 2001 and 2003, thanks to the relentlessness of attorney Grant Harvey and the firm of Gibbs & Bruns from Houston, Texas.

CDC Sued for Violation of Privacy

Posted on May 01, 2009
Atlanta, GA: This isn't about swine flu, but there are parallels nonetheless. In a modern, democratic society-of which the US is justly proud-the provision for basic civil human rights is a hallmark of life in a respectful and advanced population. When that hallmark is sullied through a breach in civil and human rights, civil rights law is there to protect against the unjust treatment of an individual.

Starbucks Store Managers Yell Unfair

Posted on May 01, 2009
Boca Raton, Fl: You can bet your double latte that some people are wondering why they took that management job at Starbucks. The high-end java shop has been slapped with yet another overtime lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act-this time it's the managers that are complaining that they were, as attorney Adam Chotiner describes it, "little more than glorified baristas...

Rite Aid Allegedly Wrong in its Treatment of Employees

Posted on May 01, 2009
Pittsburgh, PA: Count Rite Aid among the companies that face a lawsuit alleging they did not properly pay employees for overtime hours. A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Rite Aid assistant managers, who say they were misclassified as exempt from overtime pay...

Surrogacy Company and Financial Agents Sued for Breach of Contract

Posted on April 30, 2009
Sherman Oaks, CA: Dozens of would-be parents and the women who were acting as surrogate mothers in California have been left in the lurch after the company that made the arrangements and its financial holding company allegedly misappropriated thousands of dollars...

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