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I could not believe my eyes when I read on July 24th, The first lawsuit from the Colorado shooting has been filed by an uninjured man. I struggle to see how anyone could sue over this tragic…
In a Boston federal court on Thursday, British drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline, entered into a guilty plea, and agreed to pay $3 billion for criminal and civil violations involving ten drugs. As part…
This is a story about how the pharmaceutical industry pollutes the safety and efficacy regulatory process by the use of kickbacks and aggressive consumer marketing, including celebrity…
The lawsuits filed on behalf of retired National Football League players against the NFL are getting a lot of press. The retired players accuse the NFL of knowing that repeated concussions…
Almost 16,800 adverse events associated with metal-on-metal hip implants were reported ito the FDA from 2000-2011. This number does not account for the under-reporting phenomenon whereby, it is…
According to an AP article today, predictions that multitudes of unmanned drones could be flying here within a decade are raising the specter of a “surveillance society” in which no…
Every parent knows that teenagers love video games. So, what better way to teach teen drivers about the dangers of texting while driving or other forms of distracted driving than by having them…
Thiazolidinediones is the name for a class of drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes. The class incudes Actos and Avandia. A new study published in The Archives of Internal Medicine involving over…
There are over 1,000 lawsuits in the DePuy Pinnacle hip MDL, the multi-district litigation set up by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. This MDL is being overseen by U.S. District…
Virginia, like many states with aging infrastructure, is facing a dangerous combination. There are more drivers on the roads each year. More of those drivers are distracted by the use of…
It turns out that it is true that teenage behavior can sometimes be explained by underdeveloped frontal lobes. This also explains why teenagers are more vulnerable to concussions or mild…
A recent British Medical Journal/BBC Newsnight investigtion published at BMJ2012,344:e1410doi: 10.1136/bmj.e1410 (2/28/12) and entitled, How safe are metal-on-metal hip implants?, reveals the…
