Recent Posts in May, 2012

• Pfizer Executives Can Run, But They Can't Hide!

  May 31, 2012
  When Pfizer marketed the pain killers Bextra and Celebrex, they conveniently failed to inform the FDA and public of studies showing that the drugs ...
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• Who Will Protect the Children from Prescription Drug Deaths?

  May 29, 2012
  We recently came across three articles highlighting how the youngest people of out country are subject to dangers from prescription drugs. Reuters ...
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• Medtronic Voluntarily Pays $23.5 million Fine to the U.S. Justice Department; Whistleblowers Crucial

  May 29, 2012
  A common, yet highly illegal, practice by large medical device manufacturers such as Medtronic is to offer financial kickbacks to doctors who use ...
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• Adverse Tissue Reactions to Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants: New Study Confirms Metallosis Reactions in the Taper Area

  May 29, 2012
  The Journal of Arthroplasty in May, 2012, published a study titled "Metal-on-Metal Local Tissue Reaction Is Associated With Corrosion of the Head ...
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• NuvaRing Clotting Risk Doubled When Compared to Other Hormonal Birth Control

  May 29, 2012
  Our firm was the first to file NuvaRing suits in state and federal courts. Before any national or global attention was drawn to a higher incidence of ...
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• Update on the Johnson & Johnson DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-Metal Implant Litigation

  May 29, 2012
  DePuy has been selling the Pinnacle hip implant longer than its ASR counterpart, although it has not been recalled. Nonetheless, adverse event reports ...
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• INSULATION FAILURES IN ROBOT SURGERY

  May 24, 2012
  Posted on behalf of Paul Rheingold, Esq. There is a serious risk of bowel burns , sometimes fatal, in doing robotic surgery if there is an insulation ...
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• Dirt Bikes Made by Baja Sports Recalled Again

  May 22, 2012
  After a March 2011 recall of 4,300 Baja Sports Dirt Bikes, bikes are being recalled again due to a fuel tank leak posing a fire and burn hazard to ...
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