Amgen, Inc. has announced that their anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen, as well as Johnson & Johnson’s Procrit, have had their black box warnings expanded by the FDA. The warning approved by the FDA in November, 2007, state that using these anemia drugs may increase the risks of death and tumor growth in patients who […]
Misdiagnosis Leads to Blindness
In June, 2006, Juanita Tomlinson went to the Paris (Illinois) Community Hospital emergency room complaining of double vision, a headache and pain in her eyes. The doctors who evaluated Tomlinson diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Shortly after returning home, Tomlinson’s vision failed, and is now permanently blind. […]
Pennsylvania State Trooper on Trial in Wrongful Death Case
Pennsylvania State Trooper, Samuel Nassan, took the stand on Tuesday to explain his actions in the Christmas Eve 2002 shooting death of a 12-year-old boy named Michael Ellerbe. Nassan claims that he shot Ellerbe, in the back while he was running away from an SUV he had stolen, because Nassan’s then-partner, Juan Curry, had just […]
Wrongful Death Suit Hits the College of New Jersey
John Fiocco, Jr., a student at the College of New Jersey, went missing from his dorm room in the early hours of March 25, 2006. His body was found in a landfill a month later in Tulleytown, Pennsylvania. While the cause of Fiocco’s death has not been determined, it is thought he may have somehow […]
Transplant Surgeon Allegedly Hastens Patient’s Death for His Organs
Ruben Navarro, a 25-year-old who suffered a nerve disease for most of his life, died at the beginning of February while in the operating room at a San Luis Obispo, California hospital. In a criminal complaint against Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, prosecutors allege Navarro’s death was hastened by a mix of sedatives usually given to dying […]
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