Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers sell their wares for a profit. Nothing wrong with that. If I sold widgets, I would certainly want to generate a profit. If my widgets carried with them the potential to cause severe injury and death though, I would have the absolute responsibility to not […]
Category: Product Defect
There are certain drug compounds that I, as a consumer, can not purchase without the permission (think prescription here) of a licensed physician. There is very good reason for this. There are drugs for which the use must be weighed and evaluated by trained medical people. In some cases the […]
A recent study published by scientists in Victoria, Australia provides even more compelling evidence that post-operative use of pain pumps in patients undergoing shoulder surgeries is a bad idea. A number of researchers have noted that patients who utilized post-operative pain pumps which bathed their shoulder joints with anesthetic drugs […]
I saw recently that a U.S. Senator had sponsored a bill to have the FDA regulate the Tobacco companies. According to an article in June 12, 2009 Washington Post newspaper, the bill was sponsored by Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. It seems the FDA has had poor success in regulating […]
On 6/17/09 the FDA issued a “warning” to the Zicam manufacturer Matrixx after receiving a number of reports through MedWatch of serious injury or illness. MedWatch is the FDA’s “new and improved” reporting mechanism, cited in the three-page letter to Matrixx they have received in excess of 130 reports of […]
The news spread like wildfire of the voluntary recall by Iovate of Hydroxycut due to reported cases of serious illness, death, or liver failure . The confusing part for consumers is that Iovate voluntarily recalled a number of their products and that the FDA did not institute a ban as […]
For a consumer, a press release of a recall or ban of a product is thought to be in real time, when in fact some perceived “recalls” or “bans” have been years in the making. Another not well known fact is that a perceived recall or ban may be neither. […]
A cosmetic surgeon once told me that anorexia nervosa was not a disease in this country until the fashion industry made “thin” good. The look of a Renoir is that for which women used to dream. Now we see news labelling certain States as the 1st most obese, the second, […]
On April 30, 2009, Jardine Enterprises, a major manufacturer of cribs for infants, in conjunction with federal product-safety regulators, expanded a recall of their products. The recall of infant cribs manufactured by Jardine was originally issued last June. This most recent action is the second expansion of the additional recall. […]
It is all about Senate Bill 2198, sponsored by Senator Haridopolos, a Florida State Senator. It is all about justice fairly given out. It is about Big Tobacco being treated just like the rest of Florida citizens. It is about justice. See the full article by clicking here.
