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Baum Hedlund Files Three Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits in Los Angeles
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Baum Hedlund Files Three Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits in Los Angeles

Three Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits in Los Angeles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Los Angeles, California, December 29, 2011 – -  Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, P.C. (www.baumhedlundlaw.com) has filed three lawsuits today against Japanese-based Takeda Pharmaceuticals and its subsidiaries on behalf of three California residents and their spouses alleging the diabetes drug Actos caused their bladder [...]

Published by on December 30, 2011 5:37 am
EPA Finds Potential Link between “Fracking” and Well Water Contamination
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EPA Finds Potential Link between “Fracking” and Well Water Contamination

Pavilion, Wyoming located about 230 miles northeast of Salt Lake city is a small community surrounded by a natural gas well field, (up to 150 wells), owned and operated by Alberta based Encana Corporation. Encana uses hydraulic fracturing or “Fracking”, a controversial technology employed to recover and enhance natural gas​ and oil production from deep [...]

Published by on December 12, 2011 1:04 pm
Reason Magazine Perpetuates False Information About Safety and Efficacy of Antidepressants
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Reason Magazine Perpetuates False Information About Safety and Efficacy of Antidepressants

by Bijan Esfandiari The September 27, 2011 edition of Reason Magazine reported on a “new working paper” from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), suggesting that the FDA’s 2005 black box warnings concerning antidepressants and the risk of suicidal behavior in adolescents and teenagers caused a dramatic drop in antidepressant use and, consequently, a rise [...]

Published by on October 26, 2011 1:31 pm
CooperVision`s Avaira Toric Contact Lens Causing Vision Problems
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CooperVision`s Avaira Toric Contact Lens Causing Vision Problems

Amid growing reports of eye problems ranging from blurry vision to torn corneas, federal health officials are threatening to issue a public warning about recalled contact lenses manufactured by CooperVision Inc. and sold widely at stores such as Costco, Wal-Mart and LensCrafters.Specific lots of  the company`s Avaira Toric Contact lenses were recalled quietly in August because [...]

Published by on October 11, 2011 2:13 pm
New Research Shows Strong Link Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Onset of Dementia
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New Research Shows Strong Link Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Onset of Dementia

New research presented in July at the Alzheimer’s Association® International Conference 2011 (AAIC 2011) in Paris, France, reports that older war veterans who experience traumatic brain injury show a more than two-fold increase in the risk of developing dementia. Researchers analyzed medical records of U.S. veterans aged 55 or older who had received medical care [...]

Published by on October 6, 2011 11:57 am
FDA Issues Yet Another Warning over Celexa Use
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FDA Issues Yet Another Warning over Celexa Use

The FDA has issued a drug safety alert for the antidepressant Celexa (citalopram, also available as a generic), reducing the recommended maximum daily dosage to 40 mg/day. The alert is due to a new study which found the previously recommended higher dose of 60-mg/day can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart. [...]

Published by on October 3, 2011 3:57 pm
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