August 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 wear for a period of about three weeks, during which time it slowly releases hormones into the bloodstream.
View MoreJuly 31, 2013
New Research Suggests Failure of FDA Post-Market Oversight System
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This blog has published many posts that mention the United Stated Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and we have on a few occasions taken the position that the organization often fails in its duty to protect consumers from corporations whose goal is the bottom line at the expense of consumer safety.
View MoreJuly 24, 2013
Roosevelt Boulevard — A Death Trap
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Too many tragic deaths have to occur and too many years have to pass before simple changes are made to improve safety on the Roosevelt Boulevard and to protect citizens of the Philadelphia and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
View MoreJuly 17, 2013
Statute of Limitations Amendment, Inspired by Cancer Patient, Dies in NY Legislature
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Lavern Wilkinson of Brooklyn, New York, took a bus to Kings County Hospital’s emergency room in the winter of 2010, experiencing sudden and severe chest pains.
View MoreJuly 11, 2013
Feldman Shepherd Founding Partner Carol Nelson Shepherd Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from The Legal Intelligencer
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On June 27, 2013, The Legal Intelligencer honored Philadelphia medical malpractice attorney, Carol Nelson Shepherd of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP, with a Lifetime Achievement Award presented to a selection of Pennsylvania’s most influential lawyers.
View MoreJuly 10, 2013
Supreme Court Protects Generic Drugmakers from Warning Label Liability Lawsuits
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The pharmaceutical industry in the United States is massive.
View MoreJune 26, 2013
Verdict Announced in First da Vinci Surgical Robot Lawsuit
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One of our past articles on the da Vinci surgical device cited the Chicago Tribune, which quoted Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor Dr.
View MoreJune 19, 2013
After Initial Refusal Chrysler Agrees To Recall up to Three Million Unsafe Defective Vehicles
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Since January of 2013 we have written two posts about automobile recalls: one, “Toyota Settles Class Action Lawsuit for More Than $1 Billion,” detailed the company’s recall of up to 3.
View MoreJune 12, 2013
Number of Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Cases Continues to Dwindle
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The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania, on June 4, published a news article and the title says it all: “Medical Malpractice Case Statistics Show Nearly 45 Percent Decline in Number of Case Filings Statewide.
View MoreJune 05, 2013
Dangerous Drugs — Additional Compounding Pharmacies Implicated in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
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Since October 2012, we have periodically published articles about the fungal meningitis outbreak that began at the New England Compounding Center (NECC) in Massachusetts (see our posts titled, “Fungal Meningitis Linked to Tainted Steroid Injections” and “More Compounding Pharmacies Shut Down in Fungal Meningitis Scare” for an overview both of the ailment itself and this particular story).
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