Antidepressants Raise Risk of Bone Fractures in Menopausal Women
Antidepressants have helped millions of people who suffer from conditions such as depression, anxiety, and other afflictions dramatically enhance the quality of their lives, but these drugs are also...
View ArticleAlabama Man files Bair Hugger Lawsuit after MRSA Infection
A man and his wife are the most recent in a growing number of plaintiffs who claim that use of the forced air system known as the Bair Hugger during their surgical procedures led to the onset of a...
View ArticleEPA causes Massive Wastewater Spill, Turns Rivers Orange
Multiple communities in Colorado as well as two Navajo Nation towns in Utah have declared a state of emergency following an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) blunder that caused roughly millions of...
View ArticleAnimas River Contamination affects Navajo Nation Food Sources, Spirituality
For most of the communities near the Animas and San Juan Rivers, the August 5 spill of 3 million gallons of wastewater from an old mine is little more than an inconvenience. These communities don’t...
View ArticleOxyTOTE Portable Oxygen System Recalled due to Fire Risk
Recently, the FDA issued a Class I recall of the OxyTOTE portable oxygen unit because this device may burst into flames when it is dropped. The OxyTOTE recall was issued on January 31, 2015 because the...
View ArticleFDA Continues to find Violations by 3 Makers of Medical Scopes which Spread...
Three manufacturers of a medical device known as a duodenoscope are under fire from the FDA for multiple violations of patient safety laws which are linked to outbreaks of “superbugs” in hospitals in...
View ArticleChild’s Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Lawsuit appears before Federal Jury
Earlier this week, the trial began for a lawsuit filed by a family that claims that their daughter’s painful and debilitating struggle with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) was caused by Johnson &...
View ArticleVolkswagen ordered to pay $4.8M to Victim in Passat Sudden Acceleration...
A Georgia jury recently awarded $4.8 million to a woman who suffered serious injuries when the Volkswagen Passat she was driving accelerated out of control. Cheryl Bullock filed her personal injury...
View Article3M Not in Favor of Bair Hugger Lawsuit Centralization
3M, the company which now owns rights to the Bair Hugger forced air warming blanket, stated earlier this week that they opposed to centralizing all Bair Hugger lawsuits before a single judge....
View ArticleFDA Issues Class I Recall for Artificial Heart
Last week, the FDA issued a Class I recall for an artificial heart system which could experience a power fail resulting in serious injury or even the death of a patient. The initial recall for the...
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