Patrick Albanese, a hand model, actor, musician, and magician, has filed a defective product lawsuit against Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Kmart Corp. over injuries he suffered from using a lounge chair manufactured by Stewart’s company and sold by Kmart. Albanese was moving his Martha Stewart Everyday lounge chair when the front legs broke down, […]
Gardasil Linked to Genital Warts
Gardasil, a vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer in women, has recently been linked to outbreaks of genital warts. Gardasil is generally given to 11 and 12 year-old girls to prevent cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Women who have not yet received the vaccine are still eligible for it through age 26. A […]
Malpractice Claim Filed for Diseased Organ Transplants
The Indiana Organ Procurement Organization faces two medical malpractice claims after two people died from cancerous organ transplants. Both men received organs from the same donor in October 2006. Anthony Taylor received a liver and a kidney, and James Fell received the other kidney. The organ donor had melanoma that had spread to her liver […]
Merck Faces Lawsuits Over Fosamax
Over the next year, Merck will face the first wave in a large set of defective drug lawsuits over their osteoporosis drug, Fosamax. When the pharmaceutical company released the drug in 1995, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that they place a warning on the drug about its potential risk to cause osteonecrosis of […]
Recall Issued for Insulin Syringes
Covidien has issued a recall on 500,000 syringes used by diabetics. The recall is for single-use ReliOn syringes sold at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there has been a mislabeling on these syringes that can cause patients to overdose by 2.5 times the appropriate dosage. So far, only […]
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