- Robert Blanchard | February 28, 2006 3:40 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeA recent report confirms - Medical Malpractice Insurance 'Crisis' Is Over. Why then the continued cries to the contrary. Why are politicians trying to win votes with lies, and all the while taking your rights away. This kind of stuff makes you mad when you have to talk to people every day who have been injured by stupid doctors. Most physicians are excellent, but the bad ones are getting away...
- Robert Blanchard | February 28, 2006 3:33 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsAll the recent attorney advertising has generated a lot of calls. It appears the most common complaint was excessive bleeding and, more often than you would guess, unwanted pregnancy. We will still continue to take cases where blod clots resulted in medical treatment, because that is very serious. I hope the FDA will look at these other problems.
- Robert Blanchard | February 27, 2006 9:35 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsI read with interest notice of a recent recall, because it wasn't clear what problem the product was causing. The recall pertained to an estimated 1 million units of balanced salt solution distributed between December 2003 and December 2005 under the brand names AMO Endosol (Advanced Medical Optics), Cytosol Ophthalmics (Cytosol Ophthalmics), and Akorn (Akorn Inc). The US Food and Drug...
- Robert Blanchard | February 21, 2006 10:26 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeUnder an agreement on medical-malpractice laws in Washington State, which expected to be enacted into law, doctors would be able to apologize for a medical mistake without it being used against them in court. Mediation would be mandatory before a lawsuit could proceed, and if it went forward, both sides could agree to binding arbitration to avoid costly litigation. Juries also would be able to...
- Robert Blanchard | February 20, 2006 3:19 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsWhat can be worse than your jaw rotting away and dying while it is still in your face? Other drugs in the same class as Fosamax(R) warn of this potential outcome. See article at Cancer Drug Causes Bone Problems in Jaw. In the U.S. Package Inserts for both Aredia and Zometa, the following information on osteonecrosis had previously been added to the Adverse Reactions section under Post-Marketing...
- Robert Blanchard | February 20, 2006 3:14 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe makers of the only birth control patch announced last week that new studies have shown that their Ortho Evra birth Control Patch is having twice the problems of the standard oral dose. Ortho Women's Health & Urology is the maker of the ORTHO EVRA (R) (norelgestromin/ethinyl estradiol transdermal system) birth control patch and it has received findings from two separate studies that were...
- Robert Blanchard | February 13, 2006 10:05 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe Food and Drug Administration issued a Public Health Advisory alerting doctors who perform heart bypass surgery, and their patients, that Trasyolol (aprotinin injection), a drug used to prevent blood loss during surgery, has been linked in two scientific publications to higher risks of serious side effects including kidney problems, heart attacks and strokes in patients who undergo artery...
- Robert Blanchard | February 13, 2006 9:45 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeA serious infection of the heart may too often go untreated, because many patients present with a nonspecific illness characterized by fatigue, mild dyspnea, and myalgias. A few patients present acutely with fulminant congestive heart failure (CHF) secondary to widespread myocardial involvement. Many cases of myocarditis are such that the patient rarely seeks medical attention during acute...
- Robert Blanchard | February 13, 2006 9:37 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe FDA and the drug companies have downplayed the link between Viagra and ION, stating, correctly, that the disease also occurs in men with cardiovascular risk factors who do not take erectile dysfunction drugs, but implying that the cause is cardiovascular risk, not the drugs. To test this, Public Citizen's Health Research Group compared the rate of reports of ION, per million prescriptions...
- Robert Blanchard | February 01, 2006 3:16 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsRecent reports about this drug are truly shocking. Trasylol is used during heart operations to control bleeding - important to be sure - but it turns out that while this drug destroys kidneys, two readily available and less expensive, generic drugs work just as well without the risk. A major indepedent study found that the risk of kidney failure and strokes is doubled with Trasylol. We have to...