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Clearly it’s product liability Monday. New Jersey’s highest Court (Supreme Court of New Jersey) has paved the way for mass tort (read class action) litigation against Johnson & Johnson, makers of Levaquin. Levaquin is an antibiotic. A fluoroquinolone, if you need specificity. It was typically precsribed for urinary tract infections. Apparently (or rather allegedly) it also causes [...] The acne “cure” so many teens are familiar with is being pulled from the market. Roche Holding, AG, has taken Accutane off of the US Market following 6 adverse (that means bad for Roche) jury awards of over $33 million for allegations that it caused bowel disease in users. Specifically ulcerative colitis and Chron’s Disease. The [...] Source: JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), August 12, 2009 issue Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) appears to improve the survival rates of patients with non-metastatic (has not spread) colorectal cancer. The 5-year survival rate for patients regularly taking aspirin was 88% vs. 83% for non-aspirin consuming patients. 10-year survival rates were 74% vs. 69% respectively. Aspirin is [...] Source: BBC Salinomycin, an antibiotic, has demonstrated itself to kill breast cancer stem cells more effectively than current chemotherapy drugs. Dr. John Stingl, a British Cancer researcher at Cambridge, has offered the opinion that, “This is one of the biggest advances we have seen this year in this area of research.” This area being cancer stem cells. [...] Source: BBC News No. Unfortunately this is not one of the endless swine flu jokes going around. Apparently, a group of approximately 50 rabbis and “Jewish Mystics” (you know, to single them out from the other mystics) circled Israel by air blowing the Shofar (a religiously connected horn, made of, well, horn) and chanting prayers. Ironic as [...] Source: Circulation; British Heart Foundation A US study of approximately 100,000 women over 8 years, published recently suggests that optimistic women had a 9% lower risk of developing heart disease and a 14% lower risk of dying from any cause. Cynical women who harboured (British Heart Foundation license on the “u”) hostile thoughts or who were generally [...] Source: Reuters Premature babies (low gestational age neonates) are subject to less stress, inflammation and chronic lung disease when 30% oxygen is used instead of 90% oxygen during resuscitation. This according to researchers from University Hospital La Fe, Valencia (yes, like the oranges), Spain. You’d think more oxygen would be better, right? Wrong. The air you are [...] I admit that I am guilty of flaunting my former affiliation with the defense medical malpractice bar. I do so not to give me any particular credibility in discussing or advising on medical malpractice issue but because to not do so would invalidate the past 14 years of my life. Morever, even as a plaintiff [...] Source: July 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD) Separate Research (which I have taken the liberty of combining here) presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Vienna, Austria suggest that regular exercise and a heart health diet slows the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, significantly. If you really must have it separately, a University of [...] Okay, some of you may not get that reference. Too bad. Google is your friend. As part of a class action lawsuit settlement (wonder if they would have been as forthcoming without the lawsuit), Eli Lilly has started to disclose physicians who have received payment from the drug company. Is your doctor among [...] |
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