ABC World News (6/28, story 7, 2:20, Sawyer) reported, “Two major studies have found the medicine called Avandia [rosiglitazone] could create a significant new risk of heart attack and other serious problems.” The Washington Post (6/29, Stein) reports that one study, “involving more than 35,500 people, found that Avandia significantly…
A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Cincinnati police and the University Hospital in the Taser death of a psychiatric patient. Kelly Brinson was tased by police officers while under restraints at the hospital, the lawsuit claims, sending him into cardiac arrest and killing him three days later.…
The diabetes drug Avandia, once the world’s top-selling diabetes medication, took two more hits with one new study linking it to an increased risk of heart attacks and a separate study linking it to an increased risk of heart failure and stroke. The research comes only weeks before an upcoming…
A settlement has been reached between Bethany First Church of the Nazarene and Southern Nazarene University and five young girls who claimed to have been molested by the church’s elementary pastor. The lawsuit claimed that Ryan Martin Wonderly molested the girls sometime before 2003 and that church and SNU officials…
In the first frantic days after the blowout of the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, crisis managers in Houston, concerned about the potential for an even greater catastrophe, weighed the risks of using more aggressive methods to try to control the well or leaving it alone, according to…
The Los Angeles Times (6/28, Weber, Ornstein) reports that California’s “Board of Registered Nursing has discovered that some 3,500 of its nurses have been punished for misconduct by other states — hundreds even had their licenses revoked — while maintaining clean licenses in California.” Now, “as many as 2,000 of…
A jury has ruled that Enterprise Rent-A-Car must pay $15 million to the family of two girls who died in a fiery car crash in 2004 in one of the company’s rental cars. Raechel and Jacqueline Houck were riding in a rented Chrysler PT Cruiser when the car crashed, killing…
Bloomberg News (6/18, Feeley) reported, “Pfizer Inc. faces a Texas trial over its hormone-replacement drugs after a court overseeing lawsuits over the medicines sent 200 cases back to their home courts.” At issue in the suit is whether “the Prempro [conjugated estrogens and medroxyprogesterone] menopause drug helped cause” the plaintiff’s…
The city of New York has agreed to a $750,000 settlement with a Queens woman who was mauled by a pack of wild dogs in 2001, leaving her with severe scarring and post-traumatic stress disorder. Marlene Fils-Aime was trying to rescue a man who was being attacked by the dogs…
A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages in the nation’s first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have legal ramifications for thousands of similar cases. The defendant, drywall distributor Banner Supply, is named in thousands…