In this Issue: Seven-Month Delay in Diagnosis Results in Loss of Breast Beware of What You Sign At Your Doctor’s Office Litigation Updates: – Bausch & Lomb Renu with MoistureLoc – Tobacco and the recent Florida Supreme Court decision Known Defects in SUV Cause Tragic Crash Careless Trucker Causes Horrific […]

I want “all natural” in everything I consume. Why? Because it is better for you. Right? What does natural mean to us? “Unaffected”, “genuine”, “native” “natural”. All clean feeling words that provide the impression that something is good for you, or at least its natural and so it not bad […]

Is Sponsor-Submitted Clinical Data Safe? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a tricky task at hand when it comes to reviewing, evaluating, investigating and eventually approving prescription medications. Yes, the agency has a mission to ensure patient safety, and yes, a formal process must be followed before a medication […]

The road to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pharmaceutical manufacturers’ medications is a long and winding one. A dynamic process tinged with favorable – and unfavorable – factors can take a drug from lab to label in 10 months or less. Consumer clarity on how certain products make […]

An all too familiar campaign of denial. It seems like every week a different retired football player from the National Football League publically reveals their private struggles with post-football related health issues, and particularly those attributable to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE.  CTE is a progressive degenerative disease found in […]

Cyber attacks have broken free from their initial molds of carting off with consumer credit card numbers or stealing someone’s identity. The act of digitally digging into cyberspace has hit the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and some of its 11 government agencies. Instead of hackers hounding out […]

The nominee for the top job at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is being held hostage by Congress until the agency agrees to revamp its approval process for opioid painkillers. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has led the delay in appointing Robert Califf to the position of commissioner until the […]

One of the foremost father figures in the history of medicine famously said, “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician revered for high ethical and moral standards that are the reason every doctor in America pledges […]

Gone are the days when smoking cigarettes was universally viewed as a sign of strength, sexiness or sophistication. The tobacco industry’s effective—and deceitful—advertising campaign rolled out over the last century finally came under fire as more and more studies revealed the dangers and addictiveness of smoking . Instead of being […]

Florida lawyers are once again at the forefront of litigation against Big Tobacco, as last week a class action lawsuit against the maker of American Spirit cigarettes, and its parent company, was filed in Federal Court in Miami. American Spirit cigarettes are made by Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (SFNTC), […]