HEALTHCARE LAW

WASHINGTON (AP) – May 7, 2005 – What Merck & Co. calls good salesmanship – emphasizing the positive in selling the painkiller Vioxx – a Democratic congressman says is disinformation designed to deflect safety concerns. The public got an extraordinary glimpse this week into the world of drug marketing, as lawmakers released confidential Merck documents that detail how a […]

Book Title: Auto Accident Personal Injury Insurance Claim: (How to Evaluate and Settle Your Loss) (Paperback) by Baldyga Dan Editorial Reviews: From the Publisher This book covers every strategy, from the initial telephone calls to the medical examination and then finally the actual settlement, one should employ to obtain the best possible settlement of their […]

September 2000 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today September 28, 2000 approved the abortion drug mifepristone – known as the abortion pill – for sale and prescription in the United States. Women in Europe have been able to use mifepristone – known there as RU-486 – for 10 years as a pharmaceutical alternative to surgical abortion during early […]

September 2000 – Want to track your Social Security benefits? Need to apply for a federal student loan? Having trouble surfing the Internet to find the nearest veterans hospital? Want to reserve a campsite at a national park? Now, Americans can do all these things by logging on to a single U.S. government Web site: http://firstgov.gov. […]

Mad cow disease is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE, is linked to a similar form of the incurable and fatal brain-wasting disease in humans, called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or vCJD. There have been a small number of cases of vCJD reported worldwide, primarily in the United Kingdom, in people who ate […]

At least 200 North Americans have contacted lawyers in California and elsewhere about joining class actions that allege Mirapex caused them among other things to gamble, shop, paint and eat compulsively. More lawsuits seem likely against the drug companies Pfizer Inc. of New York and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. based in Ingelheim, Germany. Some news […]