In a move to make the relationship between the FDA and the outside advisors more transparent, the FDA will require them to disclose potential financial conflicts of interest in writing. In 2006, a study found that a quarter of all experts the FDA relied on for advice on drugs, including whether or not to approve them for public use, had a financial conflict of interest. The proposed changes...
The weather in Florida has turned cold quickly. Many families may not be prepared for the sudden blast of cold air from the north and will go to any means to keep their family warm. However, this does not mean you can fore go safety just to stay warm.A family of six in Jacksonville was hospitalized overnight due to carbon monoxide poisoning. For whatever reason, they had a generator running...
It is a great business model if you can achieve it. Keep your profits up and keep your costs down.And that is apparently what Florida's largest medical malpractice insurance companies have been doing. They have been paying out less in claims. With a cap of $500,000 and medical malpractice lawsuits expensive to bring, many just aren't filed. And many patients who are hurt by hospitals and...
Baseball, apple pie, and Wal-Mart-how much more American can you get? Yet the All-American Wal-Mart just recently made a potentially killer toy, Aqua Dots, one of its list of 12 top Christmas toys. How can we as consumers know that toys we buy our innocent children are potential killers? Aqua Dots are just the latest in a list of Chinese produced toys to be marked by the Consumer Product Safety...
A Jacksonville, Arkansas toddler is among the children harmed by yet another recalled Chinese manufactured toy. The child was playing with the toy when the mother noticed him stumbling and vomiting. The child was rushed to Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas when he began losing consciousness.The sudden illness has been linked to the chemical coating on the beads , which when ingested,...
Last Friday the student pilot of a Cessna 150, David Terrill, and his instructor/passenger Dennis Covel, were hospitalized after crash landing on the Palmer Golf Course. They struck a tree on approach to the Palmer airport and had to put the plane down. Cases such as this are complicated and require retention of a skillful attorney.Normally the pilot, responsible for the safe operation of the...
Sometimes they call it a head injury and other times a brain injury but to the person suffering from the effects it's no joke. Learning to live with a brain injury is perhaps the hardest thing anyone can ever hope to achieve. With 26 years of practicing personal injury law I've seen more than my share of cases where we have a brain injury. The older you get the harder it is to adjust to....
With over 2 million cosmetics surgeries a year, including breast reductions and enhancements, as well as "tummy tucks", it is about time the public was made aware of the risks of these procedures. That's a 446% increase since 1997. TV shows glorify these procedures as simple and everyone thinks they can have them done with no problem. In truth, every surgical procedure carries with it...
It is a story we report here all too frequently.As SUV's get bigger, children stay little and difficult to see near the road. That's what happened to Shykeria Bynes.Last month she was crossing the street with her brothers to go to a nearby Gate gas station to buy candy with $1. The 6-year-old was holding their hands near 45th Street and Moncrief Road in Northwest Jacksonville. Shyshy as she...
At least 630 patients may be at risk for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C after a Long Island doctor reused needles and syringes on patients, states new York health officials.The at risk patients were only notified of the problem last week after a three-year investigation was finished. It is known that at least two of the doctors patients have already contracted hepatitis C, which is an...
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