InjuryBoard West Palm Beach Archives

• Avandia, Rezulin and Actos: Same Chemical Family; Similar Benefits, and Unfortunately, Quite Similar Risks

  Armand Rossetti | October 31, 2008 3:34 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  I happened to read Tom Lamb’s article (Drug Injury Watch) this morning about Avandia. I learned that Public Citizen’s Health Research Group’s (HRG) has requested that the FDA ban...

• Hope For Patients With Gadolinium-Induced Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis?

  Brenda Fulmer | October 31, 2008 10:39 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  A rheumatologist once told me that scleroderma patients were the “guinea pigs” of the medical world. These are the patients who are suffering the most horrible of diseases for which...

• Will the Supreme Court Listen?

  John Hopkins | October 31, 2008 9:06 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  In the case of Wyeth v Levine, the high court is going to potentially change the entire system that protects consumers from bad drugs and medica devices. They will decide a hot issue concerning...

• What is next with C. R. Bard’s Urethral Bulking agent, Tegress: Is It Too Technique Sensitive and Unpredictable for Continued Effective Use?

  Armand Rossetti | October 30, 2008 5:24 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I have been reporting about problems with tension-free vaginal tape, and approval of vaginal mesh products without tracing the history of submissions to ensure that the initial predicate device was...

• Should Drug Manufacturers have immunity from legal liability if their drugs get FDA approval?

  Vincent Leonard, Jr. | October 30, 2008 4:38 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Well for the health and safety of American consumers I certainly hope not. However, don't take my word for it, even top doctors at the head of the New England Journal of Medicine agree. According to...

• Transmetallation: Which Gadolinium causes NSF, and What about Overexposure in Healthy Individuals Undergoing Multiple Scanning Procedures?

  Armand Rossetti | October 30, 2008 11:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  All FDA approved gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs) combine a single atom of Gadolinium rare earth metal by chelating it with organic chemicals called ligands. More simply, chelation is the...

• Under the RADAR and Over to Market: FDA 510(k) Submissions for Today’s Vaginal Slings are based on an FDA Equivalent Device that Was Actually Defective

  Armand Rossetti | October 29, 2008 4:53 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  Dr. Donald Ostergard is a founding member of the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) who presented the keynote address at the Society’s 27th Annual Meeting, which took place between October...

• Medtronic at it again…This time it’s their Pain Pumps

  Cal Warriner | October 29, 2008 4:09 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  Having been involved in intra-articular pain pump litigation for some time I was quite familiar with the devastating injuries these pumps can cause {link to my post}. I am also familiar through...

• There is a Reason Why the Use of Pain Pumps May Lead to Knee Joint as Well as Shoulder Joint Chondrolysis

  Armand Rossetti | October 29, 2008 10:40 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  On August 28, 2008, Attorney Calvin Warriner posted two articles. The first was about pain pumps that cause devastating shoulder injury and the second addressed a 2008 Stanford University study that...

• An Aspirin is an Aspirin; Or is It?

  Armand Rossetti | October 28, 2008 2:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Today, the FDA released informatioin concerning Bayer HealthCare and its illigal marketing of two aspirin based drugs: Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage and Bayer Women's Low Dose Aspirin +...

• Recall: Medtronic Reports Problems with IsoMed and Synchromed Intraspinal Pain Pumps

  Armand Rossetti | October 27, 2008 5:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  Medtronic’s SynchroMed and IsoMed intraspinal pain pumps consist of an abdominally implanted drug fluid reservoir equipped with a catheter. The catheter leads to and a tip, which the surgeon...

• Oops, They Did It Again! Dangerous Drugs and Preemption

  Brenda Fulmer | October 20, 2008 10:59 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  On October 16, 2008, the FDA announced the recall of dextroamphetamine sulfate tablets manufactured by ETHEX Corporation. Apparently, these tablets were sold for more than a year (from January 2007...

• Stealth Preemption by Preamble

  Armand Rossetti | October 16, 2008 11:18 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  What is the most rapid and effective way to advance preemption? Answer: preemption by preamble. It seems that the concept doing it the traditional way; first approaching Congress, or having...

• Profit Over Safety in a World of Rapid Research and Development: A Few Comments about Guidant and Medtronic

  Armand Rossetti | October 10, 2008 3:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  Profit Over Safety in a World of Rapid Research and Development: A Few Comments about Guidant and Medtronic There is always an ounce of concern among manufacturers about consumer safety, and a...

• The Long Journey to the Aftermath of Pain Pump Induced Shoulder Joint Chondrolysis

  Armand Rossetti | October 06, 2008 11:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  Several companies, including Stryker, BREG, Inc., I-Flowand DJO, Inc. have manufactured and distributed high volume pain pumps. During surgery and for up to three days post, surgeons may use a...

• Thoughts about a Possible Common Thread Running Through Drugs that Cause Devastating Skin Disease

  Armand Rossetti | October 02, 2008 10:58 AM | 3 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) is an analogue of Thalidomide that that doctors prescribe to many patients with multiple myeloma.  Lenalidomide works within the bone marrow to...