Texas Personal Injury Updates
The latest injury updates from across Texas
May 09, 2008 5:28 PM
Two weeks after Actavis issued a recall for its heart
medication Digitek, or digoxin, the first lawsuits have been filed. Very little
information has been made available on this recall other...
May 09, 2008 1:19 PM
Public Citizen has filed a petition with the FDA requesting that the Ortho-Evra patch be removed from the shelf within six months. The patch has been found to release dangerously high levels of...
May 09, 2008 12:18 PM
Yesterday Nevada health officials released the findings of a
probe investigating the patients treated at Las Vegas clinics that allegedly
reused single use medication vials and syringes. This...
May 09, 2008 10:39 AM
Two women are suing the popular fast food chain Wendy's after being
hospitalized for several weeks. In June 2006, dozens of people attending an
education conference became ill after consuming...
May 08, 2008 4:10 PM
In November 2006, Agent David Webb was killed in a rollover accident while driving a border patrol vehicle. There were no other vehicles involved and Agent Webb was wearing his seat belt. He was...
May 08, 2008 4:10 PM
Today the watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the U.S.
government to pull the birth control patch Ortho Evra from the market. Ortho Evra has been linked to higher rates of blood clots and...
May 08, 2008 2:55 PM
Suicide has been linked to several medicines over the past few years.
Some of these include Accutane, Chantix, Singular and Paxil. The Food
and Drug Administration has received reports on at least...
May 08, 2008 12:00 PM
Roanoke personal injury lawyers Dan Frith and Laura Ellerman had a post on their blog this week about problems their clients encounter obtaining medical records, and I wanted to echo their concerns....
May 08, 2008 11:06 AM
In February of this year Actavis issued a voluntary recall
of 14 lots of their popular fentanyl transdermal painkilling patch. The patches
are designed to treat chronic pain by slowly...
May 07, 2008 4:08 PM
Today Cardinal Health issued a voluntary recall of affected
lots of alcohol-free mouthwash after it was found tests showed the product was
contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia)....