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Yearly Archives: 2008

Pain Pumps and Disappearance of Shoulder Cartilage

07/2/2008
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Several companies, including Stryker, BREG, Inc., I-Flow and DJO, Inc. have manufactured and distributed high volume pain pumps. During surgery and for up to three days afterward, doctors use a variety of pain pumps to deliver anesthesia to shoulder joints. These pain pumps have catheters that surgeons can implant into […]

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What Has Gone Wrong With the Davol Kugel Hernia Patch?

06/23/2008
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Let’s take a closer look at one of the Davol patents, which provides the “blueprint” for the Kugel Mesh Hernia Prosthesis (Canadian Patent CA 2 357 020). A brief review of Davol’s patent shows that the oval shaped Kugel Patch is made from a mesh that will not dissolve, and […]

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“FDA 101” The FDA Wants to Know

06/11/2008
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In the wake of the new Current Good Manufacturing Process (CGMP) the FDA has now posted “FDA 101 How to Use the Consumer Complaint System and Med Watch” to deal with the growing issue of unsafe and contaminated products that include dietary supplements.

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It’s Herbal So It Must Be Safe—Right?

06/6/2008
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Not necessarily. The herbal product industry is still a largely unregulated industry and historically we know that many of America’s Corporate Citizens have a hard time policing themselves. When those spreadsheets hit the boardroom tables in Big Corporations, it can be difficult for them to consider safety and not focus […]

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Herbal Supplements – What you Need to Know

05/21/2008
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A lot has happened since 1994 when the FDA decided to let “their hair down” and deregulate the Herbal Supplement Industry at the pleas of “naturalists” who demanded that the government and pharmaceutical industry were in a conspiracy to keep these less costly “natural products” out of the hands of […]

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An "Unsung" Hero

05/7/2008
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The St Petersburg Times published an article today with a very well written and poignant story about a victim of Big Tobacco. The story was about the progressive illness and death of a popular area TV personality, John Eastman. He was known as the dean of Tampa Bay talk radio. […]

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Bringing Justice to the White House

05/7/2008
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One of the issues that all Americans, and particularly lawyers, should consider in making their presidential pick is which candidate will best serve the interest of “justice for all.”   Recently, while the talking heads continued to focus on the meaning of the word “bitter,” or the sound bites from a […]

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Discovering Knowledge Management

05/5/2008
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We have left the age of “document management” in litigation. The forms that information takes are no longer limited to paper or to the physical world. Rather, information now occupies digital repositories of varying forms and types. We are now faced with obtaining and managing “knowledge”, rather than “documents”; information […]

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