Miscellaneous

• Toxic Toothpaste

  Susy Owen | July 20, 2007 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Fake Sensodyne toothpaste, the toothpaste made for sensitive teeth, has surfaced in the United Kingdom. The toothpaste is contaminated with the toxic chemical Diethylene Glycol.GlaxoSmithKline is the manufacturer of the legitimate product. And according to them this defective product has high levels of the toxic chemical, Diethylene Glycol. The toothpaste in question has both English and Arabic...

• Secret Police Misconduct List May Go Public

  Susy Owen | July 15, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  There is a list of more than 600 Chicago police officers who have a complaint list that contains no fewer than 10 citizen complaints on each one of the officers. Attorney Craig Futterman, who is representing a woman that is claiming abuse, said that the release of the list to the public will shed light on exactly who the offenders are. Recently, a federal judge ruled that the documents regarding...

• Chinese Chemical Kills 94 and Counting

  Susy Owen | July 08, 2007 6:38 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  It has recently come to light that in Panama, a chemical that was made in China and was fraudulently passed off as a product that is 99.5 percent pure glycerin - a sweetner commonly found in drugs- is responsible for the deaths of 94 people. Prosecutor Dimas Guevara, a top Panamanian prosecutor said " tests show at least 94 people have died from taking medicine contaminated with diethylene...

• Avandia Hearing - FDA Exposed as Negligent

  Susy Owen | June 17, 2007 12:52 PM | 2 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Avandia is a type 2 diabetes drug that has been taken by a millions of people all over the world. According the IMS Health, a medical tracking firm, in 2006 alone, US doctors wrote 13 million Avandia prescriptions. It is known that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ignored repeated warning pertaining to increaded cardiac risks associated with this drug for years. The numbers are really...

• Defective Product Feared Toxic

  Susy Owen | June 14, 2007 3:13 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Of late, it was made public that there is contaminated toothpaste on the market, which was imported from China. Today the Colgate-Palmolive Company announced that a defective, counterfeit product in the form of toothpaste falsely packaged as "Colgate" has been found in several dollar-type discount stores in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The counterfeit toothpaste was...

• BSU Spends $850K Defending Wrongful Death Action

  Susy Owen | June 14, 2007 2:12 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  The family of a former 21-year-old Ball State University student has filed a $100 million civil rights lawsuit against the school. It seems that a rookie campus officer shoot a 21-year old student, Mike McKinney. The family filed the suit in spite of the fact that a Delaware County grand jury cleared Officer Robert Duplin of any wrongdoing. The shooting took place in November of 2003. The judge...

• Avandia Research - Doctor is Threatened

  Susy Owen | June 06, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Avandia is a diabetes medicine and is GlaxoSmithKline's second-bestselling drug. We know that worldwide more than 6 million people have taken Avandia or Avandamet, since 1999. Additionally, there was $2.2 billion in U.S. Avandia sales reported by Glaxo and that is just for the year 2006.After conducting 42 clinical trials, The New England Journal of Medicine published doctor Steven Nissen's...

• Auto Accident Becomes a Hit-and-Run

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 2:03 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  Early this morning in San Francisco, a 70-year-old male pedestrian was struck by a hit-run-driver. After the auto accident, San Francisco police Sargent Neville Gittens said "He ended up on the hood of the vehicle and the vehicle continued for about 25 feet with the victim on the hood. "The suspect stopped the vehicle, and the victim rolled off the hood onto the street." Imagine, the driver only...

• Another Defective Product Leading to Eye Disease

  Susy Owen | June 01, 2007 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  This is not the first time that contact lens wearers have been told that they have a defective product on their hands, or rather in their eyes. Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has pulled Complete MoisturePlus from the shelves globally. Apparently, they have received reports that 21 users have contracted Acanthamoeba, a water-borne parasite that occurs naturally but in the human eye can lead to...

• Defective Drugs and the Purdue Frederick Co., Inc

  Susy Owen | May 17, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  It was announced today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI), that the Purdue Frederick Company, Inc. will pay more than $600 million in order to resolve criminal charges in addition to civil liabilities stemming from their scheme to promote and sell the pain reliever OxyContin.Purdue Frederick Company, Inc. actually trained its sales...