Patients who undergo shoulder, knee and ankle surgery often experience significant pain; particularly immediately post surgery. To try and manage that pain, physicians have often employed the use of pain pumps. These pumps inject pain killer into the body in a regulated fashion to minimize pain, while controlling the tendency […]
Caffeine, hands down, is the most popular, legal and widely abused drug on the planet. It’s in everything including: caffeinated snacks; soft drinks; alcoholic beverages; over the counter supplements; not to mention popular face cream and products that boast a remedy for cellulite. Caffeine is legal, but even too much […]
In the last couple of years, it seems as if there has been an increase in the recalls issued by the FDA; contact lens solutions, tainted meat, poisonous vegetables, toxic toys and poisonous pet food to name just a few. In response to concerns over the recent headlines“Infant Formula from […]
There is no question that technological changes have revolutionized discovery in civil litigation, particularly in cases where the parties seek large volumes of documents from their opponents. Medical device and pharmaceutical litigation come to mind. How to manage so-called “e-discovery” is on the minds and lips of many lawyers. In […]
You may want to put your fork down for this one. On August 5, 2008 the division of the USDA Department of Agriculture National Organic Program (NOP) governing Organic foods made an announcement “that 15 of the 30 accredited organic certifiers they recently inspected failed the USDA audit. It is clear […]
More than six years after the Women’s Health Initiative Study was suspended due concerns regarding the long-term health risks associated with the drugs new information continues to emerge. The newest evidence, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was noted in the Nurses’ Health Study, a study involving 51,637 postmenopausal nurses […]
In an effort to improve our nation’s beleaguered drug safety system, the Food and Drug Administration plans to post quarterly lists of drugs that are being investigated by the Agency due to safety concerns. The FDA cautioned that the fact that a drug is included on the list only means […]
Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, a federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia, has been selected to oversee pre-trial coordination of the Digitek litigation. Judge Goodwin will hold the first hearing to begin the ambitious process of organizing the discovery and pre-trial procedures for all of the Digitek claims on October 10, […]
On August 28, 2008, I posted a story about Medtronic’s defective Sprint Fidelis defibrillator leads on InjuryBoard.com. The story mentioned the difficulty surgeons would encounter in removing the defective Medtronic leads. In the meanwhile, the FDA and Medtronic have been cooperating to arrive at a workable interim solution to enable […]
What do we look for when we go buy a new car? Price is certainly an important consideration and, of course, utility; will it fit everyone it has to fit? We look at color, interior material, and, currently, the crucial “miles per gallon city” rating. Do we look at the […]
