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Most of us have seen and heard news about prescription errors that have caused over 7,000 deaths, annually. However on April 25, 2008 Actavis Totowa, LLC, subsidiary of Iceland’s Actavis Group finally identified a very unusual problem. Actavis initiated a class I US Nationwide recall of its digoxin based cardiac […]

Trasylol® (Aprotinin injection) is an amino acid that Bayer manufacturers, deriving it from the lung tissue of cows. In many instances doctors inject Trasylol to reduce blood loss and to lessen the need for blood transfusions during coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Over the years, Trasylol® has garnered much […]

What is Big Tobacco doing in the Florida tobacco litigation now? They are sending out teams of lawyers and investigators to track down and interview each smoker’s sons, daughters, grandchildren, Aunt Mary, Uncle Bob, the third cousin twice removed, the neighbors, the neighbors neighbors—you get the idea.

Are They Timely Ortho-FDA Collaborative Warnings, Or Are They FDA Sanctioned Excuses for the Manufacturer The FDA has been in the news quite often, recently. Lately, consumers have seen news about caustic and blinding eye care solutions (Bausch & Lomb’ ReNu MoistureLoc and AMO’s Complete MoisturePlus), E. coli in spinach, […]

So, what is Big Tobacco doing these days in the Florida “Engle” litigation? Are they aggressively trying to bring cases to trial so they can be vindicated? Are they conducting important investigation and discovery in an effort to further justice? Ah, not so much. I speak with clients each day […]

Several companies, including Stryker, BREG, Inc., I-Flow and DJO, Inc. have manufactured and distributed high volume pain pumps. During surgery and for up to three days afterward, doctors use a variety of pain pumps to deliver anesthesia to shoulder joints. These pain pumps have catheters that surgeons can implant into […]

Let’s take a closer look at one of the Davol patents, which provides the “blueprint” for the Kugel Mesh Hernia Prosthesis (Canadian Patent CA 2 357 020). A brief review of Davol’s patent shows that the oval shaped Kugel Patch is made from a mesh that will not dissolve, and […]

Not necessarily. The herbal product industry is still a largely unregulated industry and historically we know that many of America’s Corporate Citizens have a hard time policing themselves. When those spreadsheets hit the boardroom tables in Big Corporations, it can be difficult for them to consider safety and not focus […]

On a recent trip to the supermarket I noticed that the price of bananas is over 50¢ a pound, and in my home that’s a serious expense. Unlike the cause for the drastic increase in food goods related to higher fuel costs and a depletion of food storage reserves through […]

The St Petersburg Times published an article today with a very well written and poignant story about a victim of Big Tobacco. The story was about the progressive illness and death of a popular area TV personality, John Eastman. He was known as the dean of Tampa Bay talk radio. […]