If you’re feeling down, or if you’re a woman with difficult menstrual cycles, or if you can’t concentrate, Paxil will help you feel better and focus more clearly. That’s the marketing message for the highly prescribed and hugely profitable SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) from GlaxoSmithKline. What the marketing hype tries to hide is that […]
Fen-Phen California Warning: Silent Injury – Secret Disease made worse by California’s Two Year Statute of Limitations that Starts Running When Injury is First Suspected
California’s two-year statute of limitations in personal injury cases begin to run upon the date of the injury or when a person discovers an injury has occurred. Anyone with a valid, enforceable and collectible claim, who files one day after the two year statute of limitations period, is facing dismissal of an outlawed claim. But, […]
Les Ethers de Glycol: les risques et les enjeux pour la Sante
Originally presented at “Conference: Sante et Travail” sponsored by CGT, and the Mutuelle Familale des Travaeilluers, Chartres, France, November 16, 2000. I am an American attorney. I represent workers and the children of workers injured by exposure to toxic chemicals. I am pleased to provide CGT, and the Mutuelle Familale des Travaeilluers with this report […]
Environmental Exposure to Toxic Chemicals Cause Cancer: Research Report
Environmental exposures far outweigh the role of heredity in causing cancer according to The New England Journal of Medicine of July 13, 2000 publication of the research of Drs. Lichtenstein et al who studied 44,788 pairs of twins listed in the Swedish, Danish, and Finnish twin registries. The purpose of the research was to assess […]
Carcinogens to be Avoided Toxic Exposures in the Construction Industry
The World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. reports that cancer mortality is increasing with little explanation of the cause. The first step in preventing cancer is identifying known carcinogens, many of which readily are found in the workplace. The second step is empowering our system of civil justice to hold accountable the manufacturers and distributors of […]
