Case Review: Recent Client Results Mesothelioma and asbestos compensation amounts vary greatly, based on factors like age at diagnosis, the extent of injury, and the laws in various states. Our asbestos lawyers would be happy to discuss your case with you in more detail so as to provide an idea of what similiar cases to yours have […]
Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix: Emotional Side Effects
Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix: Emotional Side Effects Smoking cessation drug Chantix has been under scrutiny in recent months as links to dangerous side effects emerge. Made by drug manufacturer Pfizer, Chantix was approved by the FDA in 2006 and quickly became a top seller, amassing $883 million its first year on the market. Chantix […]
Asbestos Legislation: Bruce Vento Ban Asbestos and Prevent Mesothelioma Act
Asbestos Legislation: Bruce Vento Ban Asbestos and Prevent Mesothelioma Act After six years, the U.S. Senate finally, and unanimously, passed Senator Patty Murray’s Ban Asbestos in America Act last October. The act prohibits asbestos where present at more than 1% by weight, calls for a public education campaign about the dangers of asbestos exposure, and […]
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Chantix: Agency requests that manufacturer add new safety warnings for smoking cessation drug
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Chantix: Agency requests that manufacturer add new safety warnings for smoking cessation drug The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a Public Health Advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and caregivers to new safety warnings concerning Chantix (varenicline), a prescription medication used to help patients stop […]
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Chantix: Agency requests that manufacturer add new safety warnings for smoking cessation drug
FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Chantix: Agency requests that manufacturer add new safety warnings for smoking cessation drug he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a Public Health Advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and caregivers to new safety warnings concerning Chantix (varenicline), a prescription medication used to help patients stop […]
CDC: Investigation of Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy Among Swine Slaughterhouse Workers – Minnesota, 2007 & 2008
CDC: Investigation of Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy Among Swine Slaughterhouse Workers – Minnesota, 2007 & 2008 On October 29, 2007, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) was notified by a tertiary-care provider of unexplained neurologic illnesses among workers in a swine slaughterhouse (plant A) in southeast Minnesota. As a result, MDH initiated a detailed investigation at […]
Quality Pork Processor Worker Neurological Illnesses Update
Quality Pork Processor Worker Neurological Illnesses Update The Minnesota Department of Health has learned that the Indiana Department of Health and CDC are investigating illnesses in several plant workers at a pig slaughtering plant in Indiana to determine if their illnesses are similar to what has been found in Minnesota. MDH continues to investigate a […]
Minnesota health officials investigate illnesses at Quality Pork Processors in Austin; No evidence to suggest general public or food supply at risk
Minnesota health officials investigate illnesses at Quality Pork Processors in Austin; No evidence to suggest general public or food supply at risk The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is investigating a cluster of 11 cases of neurological illness in workers at Quality Pork Processors, Inc. (QPP) in Austin, Minn. QPP staff and physicians in the […]
FDA Adds Boxed Warning for Heart Attacks to Anti-Diabetes Drug Avandia; Agency says drug to remain on market, while safety assessment continues
FDA Adds Boxed Warning for Heart Attacks to Anti-Diabetes Drug Avandia; Agency says drug to remain on market, while safety assessment continues The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that the manufacturer of Avandia (rosiglitazone), a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, has agreed to add new information to the existing boxed warning […]
Defribrillator leads recall: Sprint Fidelis lead fractures
Distribution of two types of defibrillators, Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Defibrillators (CRT-Ds), is being suspended by Medtronic as a result of lead fractures. If a lead fractures, defibrillators may deliver unnecessary shocks or may not function at all. Issues with the leads was first noted in March and physicians were notified. Data […]