The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it will require tougher warnings about heart failure for Avandia®, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes.
Ford Explorer Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
On March 15. 2008 the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety issued its Status Report on SUV Rollovers, which confirms defect claims made by the Alexander law firm in numerous lawsuits against Ford for Explorer roofs that fail miserably in rollover crashes. The IIHS reports that the Explorer was among the worst of the 11 SUVs […]
Dangerous Drug Profiteering Inflicts Personal Injuries
It would be comforting to know that the large pharmaceutical companies are wonderful corporate citizens whose primary purpose in life is to develop drugs and medical devices that will improve the quality of life for everyone on earth. And if you watch enough of the drug industry’s incessant advertising and marketing efforts, which now total […]
Teach Teenagers How to Drink: Preventing Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Our current approach to teaching young people the truths about alcohol and our efforts to instill in young people responsible attitudes toward drinking simply do not work. The body of evidence that reveals our failures is huge. Binge drinking by college students, fraternity hazings that involve poisonous quantities of alcohol, deaths from massive alcohol consumption […]
Personal Injury Prevention: Sit Back from Air Bags, Children in the Backseat
Air bags and seat belts save lives. But airbags can cause permanent injuries and death from spinal cord and brain injuries, especially in children and anyone of short stature who sits in the front seat close to the steering wheel or dashboard. Massive decelerations in crashes occur in one-tenth of a second. That is faster […]
