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• Bausch & Lomb Permanently Pulls Contact Lens Solution From Market

  David Lowe | May 15, 2006 1:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Follow-up: Bausch & Lomb has reached the decision to remove its contact-lens solution ReNu from the market because of its association with a fungal infection that can cause blindness. Here is the AP story as reported in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel website: ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Bausch & Lomb Inc. said Monday it has permanently removed from markets worldwide a contact-lens solution linked...

• Ignore The Spin: The Math Shows That Medical Malpractice Cases Are Mostly Well Founded

  David Lowe | May 11, 2006 9:20 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  It is amazing how different news organizations will report on the same study and spin completely different slants for their readers. A prime example concerns the AP story yesterday reporting about a study published in the May 11, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, from a panel of physicians, headed by David Studdert, an associate professor of health policy and management at...

• FDA Asked to Ban Antibiotic Tequin

  David Lowe | May 01, 2006 9:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to ban Bristol-Myers Squibb's drug Tequin (gatifloxacin) because it is believed to be linked to 400 blood sugar abnormalities resulting in over 150 hospitalizations and 20 deaths. According to Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group: More than half a dozen other...

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Slings Mud At Wisconsin Court System

  David Lowe | May 01, 2006 3:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, attack dog for big business, has launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign that purports to identify states that supposedly favor accident victims over corporations. The Chamber's campaign has been purveyed in full page ads in national circulation newspapers, on the internet, and in local papers in key states. The Chamber's efforts, and the response of the...