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• Ortho Evra and Blood Clots

  Jeremy Thurman | January 05, 2006 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  ORTHO EVRA birth control is a weekly birth control patch that was introduced into the market in November 2001. In 2004, ORTH EVRA accounted for more than 9.9 million prescriptions with sales topping a staggering $411 million. However, in November 2005, the FDA issued a black box warning label for the ORTHO EVRA birth control patch. Black box warnings are designed to highlight special problems,...

• Doctors the third leading cause of death in the US?

  Jeremy Thurman | January 04, 2006 2:15 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  Do you know what the term iatrogenic means? is defined as "induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially to pertain to a complication of treatment." In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a Dr. Starfield has documented an estimation of how many iatrogenic caused deaths occur each year. His report shows that 106,000 deaths are the...

• FDA Updates and Reaffirms its Warnings about Recalled Guidant Defibrillators.

  Denise A. Rubin | December 30, 2005 12:26 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  FDA Updated Warning regarding recalled Guidant implanted defibrillators states no change in the FDAs recommendations from July 2005.The Food and Drug Administration has updated its July 15, 2005 warnings regarding the recall of VENTAK PRIZM® 2 DR and CONTAK RENEWAL® Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators. FDA's warning stated that Guidant Corporation had recalled the above defibrillators...

• U.S. Health Care Most Expensive & Most Error Prone

  Jeremy Thurman | December 30, 2005 10:44 AM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  Not only do Americans pay much more for medical treatment than anyone else in the world, they also bear the brunt of the most medical errors, according to a survey covering the USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Almost 7,000 patients were consulted.The survey supported by The Commonwealth Fund finds that one-third of U.S. patients with health problems reported...

• Unreported Medical Errors Alarming

  Jeremy Thurman | December 28, 2005 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Did you know that statistics on medical malpractice reveal that for every medical error reported, over 50 go unreported? This has to disturbing to anyone who seeks medical treatment. When a doctor fails to render the appropriate medical advice or procedure it can often lead to the disability or even death of their patient. It is imperative that if anyone thinks that they or a family member...

• Erb's Palsy Injury (aka a Brachial Plexus Injury)

  Jeremy Thurman | December 27, 2005 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Recently, Jeffrey A. Guzman, a partner in the law firm Napoli, Bern, Krentsel & Guzman, LLP in Manhattan, New York won a $6.65 Million jury award in favor of an infant client, for an Erb's Palsy Injury. A Westchester County Jury unanimously determined that the defendant obstetrician had departed from good and accepted medical practice during the infant's birth.Brachial Plexus Palsy is when...

• Popular heartburn drugs linked to greater C. diff risk

  Jeremy Thurman | December 21, 2005 12:05 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Watch out for heartburn as you eat away over the holidays. People on popular prescription heartburn drugs - Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium - and some over-the-counter versions seem more prone to getting a potentially dangerous diarrhea caused by the bug Clostridium difficile, new research shows. C. diff, as it's known, can cause severe diarrhea and crampy intestinal inflammation called colitis....

• FDA Orders Withdrawal of Diagnostic Imaging Agent

  Denise A. Rubin | December 20, 2005 12:58 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Diagnostic imaging agent NeutroSpec has been withdrawn from the market by order of the Food and Drug Administration. The drug has been tied to numerous adverse allergic-type responses shortly after injection, including 2 deaths.The United States Food & Drug Administration has ordered the withdrawal of NeutroSpec, a diagnostic imaging agent used for diagnosis of suspected cases of appendicitis in...

• Insurance Company being sued by Trent Lott

  Jeremy Thurman | December 18, 2005 6:28 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Like thousands of other homeowners, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) lost his home when Hurricane Katrina roared ashore. And like thousands of his constituents, Lott has not been able to get his insurer to pay for replacing his house. The insurance companies are alleging the damage from the hurricane is from floods that are excluded in their policies. However, Sen. Lott, like his constituents is...

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  Staff Writer | March 02, 2005 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

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