Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, Litigation, Product Safety on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
From Graham Steele and David Arkush @ Watchdog Blog: Far too often, the press covers civil justice issues purely as battles between special interests — business versus “the trial lawyers” — without much discussion on how the policies at issue would affect the public. We weren’t surprised when the Wall Street Journal presented our opposition [...]
Posted in Auto Safety, Congress, Consumer Protection, Product Safety, tagged Auto Safety, NHTSA, roof crush on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
It looks like we’ll have to wait until October for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new vehicle roof crush standard, after rumors of a delay have proven true.
Consumer Affairs reports this afternoon that the Department of Transportation informed Congress of the delay with hours to spare before the deadline.
Of course, a delay doesn’t signify [...]
Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, Health, Litigation, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Maybe, the founding fathers actually knew what they were doing when they set up a system of checks and balances that ensure that no one branch of our government can become too powerful. We see examples all the time where the President and Congress clash over issues or where the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in [...]
Posted in Consumer Protection, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If the British recognize that the drug propoxyphene is too dangerous to prescribe to patients, what’s keeping Americans from realizing the same thing?
The U.K. began a phased withdrawal of Darvocet, which contains propoxyphene, from the British market in 2005, after the U.K. Committee on Safety of Medicines recommended that they do so. In its report, [...]
Posted in Auto Safety, Congress, Consumer Protection, Product Safety on June 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photo by Frank Rogers
David Garcia (top) was 29 when he was in a rollover crash that left him a quadriplegic. On Wednesday, he spoke before a U.S. Senate committee to urge Congress to come up with a stronger roof crush standard for vehicles. A new standard proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is [...]
Posted in Consumer Protection, Product Safety on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, I like to make fun of people wearing Crocs but, hey, I don’t wish them any harm. So, if you’re a Crocs wearer, you might want to check out this item posted on the Consumer Reports blog about people wearing Crocs and other similar “soft” footwear getting caught in escalators. According to Consumer Reports, [...]
Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, Product Safety on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photo by Joe Newman
Right now, leaders in the House and Senate are preparing to make decisions behind the scenes that will have a tremendous impact on consumer protection in this country. If they can put aside partisan differences and ignore the lobbyists from the manufacturing industry, they have a chance to craft a bill that [...]
Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, Health, Litigation, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety, tagged celebrities, Dennis Quaid, drug safety, FDA, Heparin on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Taking a mislabeled drug or using a defective medical device is a dangerous thing. Just ask actor Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly.
In November 2007, their newborn twins were given a massive overdose of Heparin, an anticoagulant drug. The twins were supposed to receive another drug that would ease the intravenous administration [...]
Posted in Health, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Developing a product that could be used as a blood substitute — one that has a long-shelf life and doesn’t require refrigeration or cross-matching — would be a great medical advance. Imagine the use of it in battlefield M.A.S.H. units or in times of natural or man-made disasters. But a new study by researchers from [...]
Posted in Health, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There was a scathing indictment of Merck in yesterday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Sadly, it’s not a great shock to hear that the pharmaceutical company held back important information about deaths related to Vioxx or that it practiced widespread scientific fraud. David Brown’s story, “Maker of Vioxx is accused of deception,” in the [...]
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