Defective Design

The Food & Drug Administration issued a Notice and Recommended Action letter to all denture adhesive manufacturers on February 23, 2011. A simple product like denture cream. Easy to use. Nothing complicated about denture cream, right? Wrong and it should not have been of any surprise to denture cream manufacturers […]

What if you were prescribed a medicine that actually made your already difficult illness worse? That is precisely what has happened to hundreds of patients suffering from osteoporosis, osteopenia, and other bone loss conditions. Patients who took a class of drug known as “bisphosphonates” have suffered severe bone fractures, such […]

It is disappointing when otherwise intelligent, insightful people simply choose to ignore facts and fail to protect the very people they have sworn to serve. It is no secret that many industry-wed lawmakers have been working for a long time to place damage caps on injuries caused by the negligence […]

Can bath salts cause severe brain damage? Can bath salts cause severe psychotic episodes? Can bath salts kill you? Not the type of warnings you will find on “bath salts” or, for that matter, the types of warnings I would have ever imagined appearing on bath salts. But, these are […]

Yesterday, the administrator of the 20 Billion dollar Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund, Ken Feinberg, was attending town hall meetings in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and will be addressing certain affected industries in Tampa, Florida.  He noted that over 70,000 people have filed for “quick claims” with the fund, an […]

When my 47-year old friend from my college days had to have her hip replaced last year, because of wear and tear on the joint, I doubt very much that anyone said to her, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news.  The good news is the state-of-the-art in […]