- Greg Webb | January 30, 2012 8:00 AM | Charlottesville, VA
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Medical Devices & Implants
According to a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article (Jan. 12) by Michelle Fay Cortez, Michael Carome, deputy director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group and author of a petition to...
- Greg Webb | December 19, 2011 8:00 AM | Charlottesville, VA
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Women and men who have pursued elusive weight loss regimens by injesting potions, pills and protein-powdered drinks—more than likely have tried HCG. HCG or Human Chorionic Gonadotropin is a...
- Doug Landau | November 12, 2010 8:06 PM | Fairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA
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Automobile Accidents
Chiropractic strokes and other injuries caused by neck manipulation is not something Herndon and Reston lawyer Doug Landau had been warned about at the many sports expos where chiropractors offer...
- Greg Webb | October 04, 2010 9:00 AM | Charlottesville, VA
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Avandia, a diabetes drug used to control blood sugar levels, faces severe new limitations. The U.S. and Europe both announced new policies for the drug in late September. The sale of Avandia will be...
- Michael Phelan | September 02, 2010 9:19 AM | Richmond, VA
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Are we looking at Fen-Phen all over again? This month the FDA will decide the fate of the controversial diet pill Meridia [sibutramine], America's second-most popular prescription diet drug. That...
- Greg Webb | July 01, 2010 1:25 PM | Charlottesville, VA
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Diabetes medication Avandia is under fire for its potential relationship to an increase in heart problems and strokes for those who take it. One study involving 35,500 participants revealed Avandia...
- Doug Landau | November 21, 2009 12:17 AM | Fairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA
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Head & Brain Injuries
With a stroke, time lost is brain lost
This was the crux of a notice Ashburn, South Riding and Broadlands brain injury lawyer Doug Landau received in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Stroke...
- Rick Shapiro | October 27, 2009 8:19 PM | Norfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA
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Medical Devices & Implants
Hospitals routinely struggle to keep their patients motivated and active in the traditional rehabilitation routine. Why? Because most routines are repetitive, cause pain, and are not very...
- Rick Shapiro | October 01, 2009 9:33 PM | Virginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Yaz and Yasmin, the two most popular birth control pills in the United States, are not perfect prescription drugs. In fact, the side effects they inflict on young women can be horrendous, even life...
- Dan Frith | May 09, 2008 6:19 AM | Roanoke, VA
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The reports are begining to be circulated that another member of "Big Pharma", Pfizer, Inc., has settled a group of cases with plaintiffs who allege the painkillers, Celebrex and Bextra, caused...