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The British Medical Journal reporst that babies left in car seats to sleep may be at risk for suffocation. Apparently, because babies' heads tend to loll forward, pressing the jaw against the chest and this can cause the already relaxed throat muscles to permit severe airway constriction. The study group stressed that the findings should in no way cause people to fail to use car seats for...

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A study by the World Health Organization has concluded that tobacco smoking will kill 50 percent more people than AIDS by the year 2015 and will be responsible for 10 percent of all deaths globally. The report is a chilling prediction of a disease process created and manipulated by Big TobaccoTobacco, currently blamed for some 5.4 million deaths a year, is set to kill 6.5 million in 2015 and 8.3...

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Often I write about Big Corporations who place profits over people. It appears that some of the members of Corporate America can, in fact, demonstrate responsible and prudent conduct. Reuters reported today that Advanced Medical Optics recalled nearly three million units of their Complete Moisture Plus contact lens solution. Chris Muller, a senior marketing executive stated that, although they...

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The US Army has taken to using a drug, used to coagulate blood, in combat field hospitals. The drug, Recombinant Factor VII, is designated for use with rare forms of hemophilia. Hemophilia is a disorder that can cause patients to literally bleed to death from something as incidental as bumping against a table. The drug was the subject of an FDA warning last December in which the FDA said that...

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A California group, Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA), thinks that corporate America needs protection from lawsuits. They fear that Big Business can not continue to reap profits producing products they know are dangerous and so, they intend to continue a campaign to "inform" the public. According to Ralph Shaffer, Cal Poly Pomona Emeritus of History, they intend to continue their campaign of...

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The Palm Beach Post reported that Merck is asking the FDA for approval of a new drug they hope will replace Vioxx; probably both in use and significant sales. The new drug is called Arcoxia and it has been received to very mixed reviews. The physician participating in the clinical trials, Dr. Christopher Cannon, indicated that all the COX-2 drugs probably have some risk of cardiac complications,...

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I could not have said it better than an opinion editorial in the Minnesota Daily did on November 8, 2006. The editor discusses Bausch's less than stellar handling of recall for their ReNu with MoistureLoc no rub contact lens solution. The editorial summarizes the timeline of events and ends with:Would they have pulled the product at all if our country hadn't uncovered the problem? The thought is...

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When multi-million dollar conglomerates send their products out to the trusting public, we expect some level of reasonable testing and safeguarding of the public's health. So, is that really too much to expect? Is the public's reasonable safety from profit motivated products really that insignificant? Is Corporate America really determining what the public should and should not be protected...

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The sky is falling; aliens are orbiting the earth; and Blackberry devices can apparently give you withdrawal sickness. Rutgers just completed a study that concludes the revolutionary devices we all use while trying to walk down the hall or drive a car can cause email and internet addiction.Apparently, these very handy devices are causing users to become so hooked that many can not go for more...

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In an orchestrated, well-choreographed and comprehensive parade of their own corporate opinions in Contact Lens Spectrum's September 2006 edition, Bausch & Lomb appears to have settled upon some of the soundbites we will hear as they defend their corporate arrogance in failing to recall MoistureLok, and the product itself which has blinded some and severely injured others. Bausch never misses...

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Bausch & Lomb seems to be taking a lacksadaisical attitude toward everything these days. In an article today in the Rochester Business Journal, Bausch is seen explaining that documents due within 6 months of the end of last fiscal year will again be delayed as financial discrepancies overseas are being investigated internally.Bausch adopted a similar laissez faire attitude recently when their...

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Bausch ReNu with MoistureLoc is a culprit in Fusarium infections. Poor hygiene is not the reason for the infections, which have led to vision loss and lawsuits.An article appearing in the Bradenton Florida local newspaper gives voice to the possibility that Bausch & Lomb might defend themselves against an onslaught of litigation over its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens cleaning solution, by...

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The Tobacco Industry began marketing "light" cigarettes because? Anybody, anybody? It seems likely that it involved, at least a little, the need to hedge against the increasing sounds being made by the anti-smoking faction; don't you think? Could a fear of shrinking profits have been involved? Could they have had a desire to create the idea that smoking "light cigarettes" was somehow healthier?...

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Smokers came to know that smoking was not good for them, but Big Tobacco had an answer for them: "light cigarettes". Lower in tar; lower in nicotine; keep on puffin'!!That fiction, sold to the public for over 20 years, may actually be exposed by the light of day. Plaintiffs have asked District Couirt Judge Jack Weinstein to certify a class action lawsuit in which the plaintiffs allege that Big...

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As Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise." Having been hammered in Federal Court and again by the Massachusetts Department of Health study finding ever increasing nicotine levels in Marlboro cigarettes Philip Morris denies the validity of the Massachusetts study.At the same time, when asked pointedly whether Philip Morris adds nicotine to its cigarettes, its spokesman withheld...

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