It is clear that the decline of hormone therapy use has saved lives. Recently released research from the University of Wisconsin puts the number of women who will be spared invasive breast cancer this year at 6,000. Based on the study done by the Women’s Health Initiative, the numbers of […]
Nearly 51% of all FDA approved drugs have serious adverse effects not discovered by the FDA until after the drug is approved and on the market. How does this happen? The FDA is not meant to be a true filter for the efficacy of drugs. They have neither the staff […]
In the Palm Beach County area, numerous events are scheduled to support the Toys for Tots effort. Below are some of those scheduled in the near future. Drop off locations in the Palm Beach County area include the businesses kind enough to be able to provide their businesses for this […]
I wish every child slept in a bed and had a chimney from which to hang stockings. I wish every child dreamed of sugar-plums dancing. I wish every child could imagine that chubby and plump figure driving out of sight into the wintry air. I wish every child could hear […]
There is a season in which we all think about taking the time to care about others; a season when many of us are perhaps more likely to reach into our pockets and lend some help those less fortunate. That season is now. I think an increasing number of us […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently inspected the Mounds View, Minn., location of Medtronic’s heart implant division and found problems with the company’s procedures for “preventing and identifying problems with its devices, documenting those problems, and the speed with which it informs the FDA of any issues,” says a […]
Wyeth chose to hide, obscure and contain the dangers of PremPro and other HRT (hormone replacement therapy drugs). A Florida lawsuit will result in requiring that Wyeth (a division of Pfizer) must “litigate in the sunshine”. Florida has a statute, which requires products in the nature of a public hazard […]
The laws labelling dogs “dangerous” have been tightened in Palm Beach County and across the nation. When a dog is declared dangerous it must be kept away from public places, on a walk it must be muzzled and on a leash and such canines cannot be left to roam freely […]
You have to love Big Tobacco. Nothing gets them down – no sir! They can cry foul with the best of ’em; even when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. First, a jury sees through their smoke and mirrors in a trial down in Fort Lauderdale, […]
Today, a Broward county jury delivered a verdict against Big Tobacco that should have sent a message. When jurors in good faith hear the evidence of misconduct, fraud, and deception practiced by the tobacco industry for decades, jurors are willing to render a verdict that relates to the egregious nature […]
