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• Avandia linked to Heart Attacks

  Jeremy Thurman | May 22, 2007 10:46 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia is linked to a greater risk of heart attack and possibly death, a new scientific analysis revealed, and the U.S. government issued a safety alert Monday. The Food and Drug Administration urged diabetics taking the pill to talk to their doctors, but stopped short of forcing a sharper warning label on the drug sold by GlaxoSmithKline PLC of LondonMore...

• Nursing Home Lawsuit in Nebraska

  Jeremy Thurman | May 16, 2007 2:39 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  A Nebraska nursing home settled a lawsuit claiming that the facility allowed one patient to lie in her own excrement for extended periods following back surgery. The plaintiff alleged that the nursing home, Life Care Center of Elkhorn's, neglect lead to a severe infection that resulted in the removal of most of her colon. The parent company of the facility, Life Care Centers of America, owns and...

• Watonga Car Accident Kills Two

  Shannon Weidemann | May 14, 2007 2:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Two people were killed and one critically injured in a car and semi-truck accident near Watonga. The accident happened on Saturday night in Blaine county. OHP reports said VanCampen's 1998 Dodge Durango was westbound on U.S. 270 and the semi was southbound on Oklahoma 58. The semi failed to yield from a stop sign and was struck by the VanCampen vehicle. After impact both vehicles traveled...

• GLAXO SMITH KLINE DATA LINKS PAXIL TO INCREASED RISK OF BIRTH DEFECTS

  Jeremy Thurman | May 03, 2007 9:03 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  On December 13, 2005, Glaxo Smith Kline released a follow up to a prior study comparing the effects of bupropion to other antidepressants. The preliminary study and it follow up are available on the GSK website [insert link to study]. Though not specifically powered to study the effects of Paxil (paroxetine), GSK concluded "In this study, the use of paroxetine in the first trimester of...

• Increase in risk of Thromobembolism among ortho evra users

  Jeremy Thurman | May 02, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  STUDY FUNDED BY JOHNSON & JOHNSON FINDS A TWO-FOLD INCREASE IN THE RISK OF THROMBOEMBOLISM AMONG ORTHO EVRA USERSIn a study prepared by I3 Drug Safety, a service company for the pharmaceutical industry, the authors found that women using the Ortho Evra birth control were more than twice as likely to suffer venous thromboembolisms than woman using oral birth control. There was not sufficient...

• Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Draconian Tort Reform Bill

  Jeremy Thurman | May 01, 2007 10:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Abraham Lincoln once wrote to a colleague that "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is...