October 04, 2013
Gil Marquez to Address Technology for Lawyers at Bench-Bar & Annual Conference in Atlantic City
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Event Location: REVEL Atlantic City Technology Tips for Managing Your Practice: From Desktop to Mobile Gilbert J. Marquez , Law Firm Administrator, will be spea…
View MoreOctober 02, 2013
After Tort Reform: Texas Doctors Operate without Oversight
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Largely in line with the mission of this firm, pro-civil justice blog The Pop Tort recently featured an article about regulation in the health care industry, wr…
View MoreSeptember 25, 2013
FDA Delays on Sutent Side Effects Warning
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Sutentis a drug manufactured by Pfizer is prescribed by doctors to treat cancer of the pancreas, stomach, bowels, and kidney. Recently, however, Sutent has been…
View MoreSeptember 18, 2013
Anti-Epilepsy Drugs Pose Health Risks to Some Patients, Many Doctors Unaware
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A study published on August 14 by Johns Hopkins Medicine (in the journal Epilepsy and Behavior) suggests that American neurologists’ pharmaceutical knowledge ma…
View MoreSeptember 11, 2013
House-Approved REINS Act Threatens to Stall Regulation and Oversight
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Imagine a nation in which every “economically significant” regulatory measure–whether related to healthcare, environmental protection, air travel, pharmaceutica…
View MoreSeptember 05, 2013
Infant Sling Death Lawsuit Ends in $8 Mil. Settlement
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By P.J. D'Annunzio, Legal Intelligencer Writer The mother of a child who died in a shoulder-sling infant carrier has agreed to settle her lawsuit with the manuf…
View MoreSeptember 04, 2013
Prolific Plastic Products Pose Problems — FDA Fails Again
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Early this past spring, we published an article titled “The Slip between the Cup and the Lip: The FDA’s Lax Regulation of Potentially Harmful Products,” which e…
View MoreAugust 28, 2013
On Roller Coasters and Regulation
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In May of this year, we posted an article about the surprising prevalence of injuries to children at amusement parks. In the first study of its kind, a team of …
View MoreAugust 21, 2013
Doctors Receiving Kickbacks May Be Persuaded to Prescribe
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The blog aboutlawsuits.com recently published a blog post by Irvin Jackson about a new study that deals with doctors receiving “kickbacks” from pharmaceutical c…
View MoreAugust 14, 2013
British Study Reveals Role of Technology in Surgical Errors
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The British Medical Journal: Quality and Safety recently published a study evaluating the role equipment and technology play in surgical mistakes. The article a…
View MoreAugust 09, 2013
State and City Officials Need to Fix Roosevelt Boulevard
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Broken Boulevard “ State and City Officials Need to Read The Inquirer."Jason Daria - Inquirer Op-EdStaff Photographer Ron Tarver’s photographs, taken at the fun…
View MoreAugust 07, 2013
NuvaRing Plaintiffs Will Soon Get Their Day in Court
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Last July, we posted our first article on the potential dangers of the NuvaRing method of birth control (manufactured by Merck) a vaginal ring that patients wea…
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