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• FDA Bans 28 Drugs Made By Indian Drug Manufacturer

  Greg Webb | September 30, 2008 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is halting the importation of twenty-eight drugs made by Ranbaxy Laboratories, a giant Indian generic drugmaker, due to deficiencies in manufacturing at two of...

• Government Warns Of Potential Fire Hazard In Recalled Ford Vehicles

  Greg Webb | September 29, 2008 5:19 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The government is asking owners of five million recalled Ford vehicles to bring their automobile to a local dealership to have a cruise control switch system repaired since the problem is tied to...

• Government Says Quigley and Pfizer Made Secret Deal Over Asbestos

  Greg Webb | September 29, 2008 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Pfizer Inc’s bankrupt Quigley unit cannot reorganize as planned because the drug manufacturer arranged the bankruptcy to protect itself from asbestos liability. Quigley filed for bankruptcy...

• Serious Brain Damage May Not Show Up On MRI

  Michael Phelan | September 27, 2008 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Boston University Medical School's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy has been studying the brains of former NFL players who donated their brains for medical research. The Center has...

• Soccer Goal Net Recalled Due To Strangulation Hazard

  Greg Webb | September 25, 2008 9:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with manufacturer Regent Sports Corporation, has issued a voluntary recall for about 190,000 models of MacGregor...

• Medtronic Accused by Own Lawyer of Pervasive Kickbacks to Physicians

  Michael Phelan | September 25, 2008 4:18 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  A qui tam lawsuit filed against medical device maker, Medtronic, by its former senior legal counsel was recently unsealed, and it provides detailed insight into the unsavory way in which surgeons...

• The Costs of Going to Court

  Melissa Landau | September 25, 2008 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  At Abrams Landau Ltd. we get a large number of calls from people who have been injured and want Doug Landau’s representation in court. Sometimes we must decline and it disappoints the injured party....

• Another Hospital Emergency Room Death!

  Dan Frith | September 25, 2008 10:07 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I live in Roanoke, Virginia, a city of about 150,000 people tucked away in the beautiful Appalachian mountains. It is a great place to live...unless you need good, prompt, and affordable medical...

• Obtain policy limit information before you file

  Doug Landau | September 24, 2008 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  It's difficult to keep up on the latest and greatest changes in the law as an attorney and even more difficult if you are the injured party. A change made this year in the Virginia Code is...

• Concussions - Even the pros get them

  Doug Landau | September 24, 2008 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  In order to further the study of brain injury and concussions, 12 professional athletes have agreed to leave their brains to medical science. The research will be conducted at the Boston University...