If GMOs Are Safe, Why Indemnify Monsanto?
29 Mar (CBS) – Protesters have descended on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House this week, enraged at a potentially health-hazardous provision they allege lawmakers inserted surreptitiously into a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal year. The bill sailed through the Capitol on Friday; President Obama signed it into law on Tuesday. (more…)
G.E. Fails to Warn of MRI Dye Danger, Loses $5 Million Lawsuit
22 Mar (PROPUBLICA) - In a setback for GE Healthcare, a jury today found that the company failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the dangers of its medical imaging dye. The jurors awarded $5 million to the plaintiff and his wife. The verdict, after a two week trial (more…)
Recent Case Connects Autism, MMR Vaccine
14 Jan (SAN JOSE, CA) – Parents who claim their 10-year-old boy developed autism as a result of being injected with an MMR vaccine when he was a baby have been awarded more than £600,000 in a landmark court decision in America. Saeid and Parivash Mojabi claimed that son Ryan suffered a ‘severe and debilitating injury to his brain’ after being administered with two measles-mumps-rubella vaccinations in December, 2003 and in May the following year. (more…)
36 Babies Dead, Hundreds Injured from One GSK Vaccine
16 Dec (VACTRUTH) - A confidential GlaxoSmithKline document recently leaked to the press exposed that within a two-year period, a total of 36 infants died after receiving the 6-in-1 vaccine, Infanrix Hexa. According to the website Initiative Citoyenne who reported the news, the (more…)
Farber Lawsuit Appealed In New York Supreme Court
9 Nov (TRUTH BARRIER) -“We hope the public reads the case file, we want law students to discuss it, we want to open up a dialogue about what is going on in this country behind closed doors, to silence dissenting voices. It shocked us and it should shock all Americans.” (more…)
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Corrupt Doc Celebrates Dubious Victory
2 Nov – A recent profile featured in OpEdNews.com, the Make It Safe Campaign website, and the Whistleblower Support Fund website, claims that Dr. James Murtagh scored a “victory that could change the way U.S. hospitals manage their physicians” with a ruling by the Georgia Co (more…)
Scant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningitis Outbreak
6 Oct (NY TIMES) - Eddie C. Lovelace, a Kentucky judge still on the bench into his late 70s, had a penchant for reciting Shakespeare from memory and telling funny stories in his big, booming voice. But a car accident last spring left him with severe neck pain, and in July and August he sought spinal injections with a steroid medicine for relief. (more…)
Falsely Accused MD Wins Claim Against Medical Board
22 Sep (SPOKANE WA) - A Spokane dermatologist won a $600,000 settlement and rare public apology from Washington state health officials who went public with charges of drug abuse and medical fraud based on a bogus tip from his ex-wife. The payment to Dr William ‘Phil’ Werschler is among the largest settlements in decades by the state Department of Health involving a physician, agency officials said. (more…)
Do Billion-Dollar Judgments Protect Americans?
5 Sep (MERCOLA) - Only weeks after pleading guilty to criminal charges that it promoted its anti-seizure drug Depakote for uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Abbott Labs is being sued again for similar charges with a different drug. The new (more…)
Whitman-Walker, Ex-Patient Settle Wrong HIV Diagnosis Suit
10 Aug (The Washington Post) - A seven-year court battle in the District over an HIV misdiagnosis ended this week when the Whitman-Walker Clinic quietly settled a $20 million lawsuit by a former patient who was mistakenly told he had the virus. In 2005, Terry Hedgepeth, (more…)
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