According to World Health Organization (WHO) there are one billion overweight adults worldwide and 300 million are categorized as obese. The World Health Organization cited several contributing factors among which are: “increased consumption of energy-dense foods high in saturated fats and sugars, and reduced physical activity, Economic growth, modernization, urbanization […]
Category: Mass Torts
The Food & Drug Administration has recently notified Eli Lilly & Co. and Bayer Healthcare that it has objections to ads used for some of their drugs. For Eli Lilly, it was print advertisements for its depression drug, Cymbalta. Print ads used on WebMD Little Blue Book; a publication to […]
You just have to love Big Tobacco. Produce a product you know kills people; hide or deflect all the information that would alert the public of the totality of the dangers; engineer nicotine delivery in a way that maximizes addiction and write memos talking about the whole scheme as if […]
Wyeth’s marketing “revolution” called Premarin has been proved responsible for the deaths and injury to women across the country. In documents released in court litigation, Wyeth demonstrates absolute giddiness over their “revolution” to sell, sell, sell Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to all women everywhere. What Wyeth and other HRT manufacturers […]
“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” Henry Thoreau. Things must be tough for Big Tobacco; 8000 plaintiffs, so much truth, so little defense. As I have previously written, I felt Florida would be a little too hot for those boardroom lawyers representing Big Tobacco and it appears I may […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
