Medical liability cases against obstetricians and other doctors who participate in the birthing process are most often spurred by errors in clinical judgment, miscommunication between doctors, and technical mistakes. All of these errors can potentially result in a birth injury occurring that may remain with the newborn child for their entire lives. According to a [...]
Aside from legal ads on TV, many Americans don’t know what asbestos is or where it can be found, let alone that exposure to this dangerous material can result in the development of an asbestos-related cancer such as mesothelioma. In fact, mesothelioma occurs in such a small number of patients – it’s estimated that only [...]
With Mesothelioma Awareness Day coming up on Monday, September 26th, we thought it apt to highlight the top ten products we were surprised to find that are still being manufactured today with the use of the known carcinogen, asbestos. Asbestos exposure has long been known to cause mesothelioma as well as other cancers and diseases. [...]
Actos Warning : In general, patients with severe mood disturbances (e.g., panic attacks; suicide ideation) require immediate psychological evaluation and treatment to stabilize their acute condition before CAM therapies may be considered. For most patients with mild to moderate anxiety and mood disturbances, CAM therapies are a useful adjunct to conventional treatments for managing psychological [...]
Carrier IQ Lawsuit News – 1/25/2012: In 1999, DoubleClick Inc. became a target of privacy advocates and lawsuits for collecting and selling information on individual Web surfing habits merged with information from other databases to identify users by name and create online customer preference profiles (Straub & Collins, 1990). In 2002, U.S. Bancorp paid a [...]
Actos Lawsuit : You can live without a bladder. However, you still need something that can perform the two basic functions of the bladder: storing and emptying of urine. Physicians have come up with many ways over the years to accomplish these tasks, many of which are still used today. The simplest alternative is to [...]
Cymbalta Lawsuit News- 1/26/2012: Unfortunately, not all birth defects can be corrected. Some are fatal. Indeed, 20 percent of all infant deaths in the United States are linked to certain birth defects. Other birth defects cause longterm disabilities that affect an individual throughout his or her lifetime. Fifteen-year-old Jimmy, for example, was born with spina [...]
Vaginal Lawsuit: Many women complain of persistent urinary problems after pregnancy and childbirth. On closer questioning irritative bladder symptoms may have been present for several years prior to the pregnancy in those women found to have DO. However, both stress and urge incontinence may arise de novo at any time, especially after delivery. Abdominal and [...]
Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit News- 1/24/2012 : The female pelvic organs consist of the vagina, uterus, bladder, urethra, and rectum (Fig. 2.1). All these organs are enclosed in a protective cage called the bony pelvis. The vagina is the birth canal, which the baby passes through during delivery. It is also the organ used during sexual [...]
With the rise and fall of the asbestos industry in Canada making headlines recently, it’d be easy for some to think that the global asbestos problem could immediately be solved with a ban. It sure seems to make sense: if we stopped mining and manufacturing asbestos, we’d be able to prevent deaths from asbestos-related cancers such as mesothelioma forever. Unfortunately, a ban is only step one [...]