Craig Kelley |
January 25, 2013 2:57 PMCouncil Bluffs, IA
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
The serious—sometimes life threatening—problems of metal-on-metal hip replacement devices has been a major news story ever since several of the manufacturers issued recalls of...
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David Mittleman |
May 22, 2013 9:58 AM |
Lansing, MI
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
I was truly humbled and impressed by the victim of the macabre face-chewing attack, Ronald Poppo. You may recall that about a year ago, a man who was high on so-called bath salts attacked another...
Jackie Fedeli |
May 22, 2013 12:30 PM |
Central Pennsylvania, PA
Category:
Medical Devices & Implants
The old phrase “To err is human” helps us to understand that even doctors make mistakes. While it is acceptable that humans make mistakes, surgical mistakes are not something that...
Steve Thomas |
May 22, 2013 10:57 AM |
Houston, TX
Category:
Medical Devices & Implants
Based on common “factual allegations” among plaintiffs in dozens of Mirena IUD lawsuits, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in April consolidated claims against...
Michael Phelan |
May 22, 2013 9:51 AM |
Richmond, VA
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Back in the early 1990's, Newt Gingrich trumpeted his plan to eliminate the FDA and allow the food and drug industries to self-regulate. Time has revealed this to be a dangerously naive...
Michael A. Stratton |
May 22, 2013 6:53 AM |
Connecticut, CT
Category:
Automobile Accidents
As states take measures to keep drivers from texting and talking while driving, a new report from researchers at the West Virginia University School of Public Health concludes that the laws...
Andrew Cochran |
May 22, 2013 11:19 AM |
Voices
Category:
Toxic Substances
Like many of you, I come from a family in which someone has proudly served our country in war, so I take veterans' health and civil justice issues very seriously. On Memorial Day, we'll...