Featured, Mass Torts Update - Monday, August 9, 2010 16:26 - 0 Comments
FDA Panel Votes To Restrict Avandia
A federal medical advisory panel recommended last month that the diabetes drug, Avandia, should either be withdrawn from the market or have sales severely restricted because it increases the risk of heart attacks. The panel listened to two days of intensive scientific discussions before its members took a vote. GlaxoSmithKline, which makes Avandia, claims that the drug is a safe and a needed option in treating diabetes. But there have been serious safety concerns by a tremendous number of medical professionals.
Panel members voiced great skepticism about the company’s trustworthiness after questions were raised about its clinical trials. Continue…
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Gulf Coast Disaster - Aug 9, 2010 16:12 - 0 Comments
BP Is Planning Its Legal Defense
While the victims of the massive oil spill are suffering and see little hope for their future, BP has been busy planning its defense to their victims’ claims. For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities in the Gulf Coast states to work on its defense against spill litigation. Part of the defense plan is to put in a conflict situation all potential experts who might work for victims’ lawyers. For example, BP tried to hire the entire marine sciences department at The University of South Alabama. To its credit, the university declined because of confidentiality restrictions that BP sought on any research done.
The Mobile Press-Register obtained a copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP. It prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data they collect for at least the next three years. Continue…
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Gulf Coast Disaster, Health Care Issues - Aug 9, 2010 15:29 - 0 Comments
Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Reporting Illnesses
Since the oil spill in the Gulf began in April, there have been thousands of workers deployed to aid in cleanup efforts. At least 200 of these workers have been hospitalized as a result of exposure to the oil and dispersants. The symptoms the workers are experiencing are typical of those associated with chemical exposure and include headaches, nausea, gastro intestinal distress, respiratory problems, and the like. While these symptoms tend to subside once the exposure to the oil and dispersants ends, many of the workers and health officials worry about the long-term effects of exposure.
To date, there is little information on the long term effects of the dispersants, especially given the large quantities being pumped into and sprayed in the Gulf. Continue…
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Toyota Litigation Update - Aug 9, 2010 16:19 - 0 Comments
Toyota Has A New Product
In his book, Doubt is Their Product, former Assistant Secretary of Energy, David Michaels, explains his firsthand account of how clever public relations by corporations and industry used multi-million dollar tactics to magnify scientific uncertainty and influence policy decisions related to dangerous products. Mr. Michaels quotes a cigarette executive as saying, “Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of facts’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.”
According to Mr. Michaels, defense consultants have increasingly worked to skew scientific literature and magnify scientific uncertainty to distort public opinion and prevent public policy changes that would require manufacturing and products to become safer. Continue…
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