Posts tagged drug

• Infected Patients and Caps on Damages

  Jon Lewis | March 30, 2011 5:36 PM | 12 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It is always good when you can relate real life examples to current proposed legislation. Today, the Birmingham News reported a tragic incident involving approximately six hospitals and a...

• Kickback Schemes or Legitimate Marketing?

  Billy Cunningham | February 06, 2010 12:42 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  The Washington Post a few weeks ago reported that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to boost sales of its drugs in nursing homes, including an antipsychotic that...

• Medical reform

  Pete Burns | June 22, 2009 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We must be alert that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries do not further limit the rights of victims of medical errors to recover fair compensation. No one knows who will be the victim of...

• Off Label Uses of Prescription Drugs

  Pete Burns | October 09, 2008 1:50 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Off label use is a drug is prescribed for a purpose, at a dose, or through a route of administration that has not been approved by the FDA. After clinical testing the FDA approves drugs for specific...

• FDA shows caution in evaluating new heart drug, delays report

  Wendi Lewis | September 29, 2008 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Could the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) finally be showing caution in its evaluation of potential new medications? After being thrashed by the media and the public in recent months for...

• FDA begins posting list of drugs with potential safety issues on its web site

  Wendi Lewis | September 08, 2008 4:42 PM | 2 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A list of prescription drugs currently under investigation by the FDA for safety issues is now available online. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration began posting the list on its web site in...

• Physicians say litigation helps ensure drug safety

  Wendi Lewis | August 18, 2008 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Attorneys who take on the pharmaceutical industry as a voice for consumers injured by medications found an unlikely ally this week, in doctors. Noting that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is often "overwhelmed" by drug safety problems ranging from serious side effects to unsafe manufacturing facilities, editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said patients benefit from information uncovered by attorneys during liability investigations, according to an Associated Press report released Friday.

• Dangerous Products: Airline Safety; Medical Safety; Food Safety; Auto Safety; Environmental Safety

  Greg Cusimano | June 24, 2008 5:58 PM | 3 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Can Our Government Protect Us From Dangerous Products and Activities? Can We Rely on Our Government? Should Our Citizens Have Input as Jurors? How safe are we? Do we need citizen regulation?

• Peeemption, Bad Drugs, Devices & Products

  Greg Cusimano | June 12, 2008 8:42 PM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

   “Giving a free get out of jail card to negligent corporations” has been used to describe Preemption.  That would give irresponsible corporations complete immunity from all lawsuits from Americans...

• Urgent Drug Recall -- Digitek

  Tara Helms | May 23, 2008 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsHuntsville, AL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  People are receiving phone calls and pharmacy letters notifying them that their heart drug may be unsafe. Actavis Totowa LLC, a United States manufacturing division of the international...