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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 [...]

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 [...]

New UN Report Links Extreme Weather to Climate Change

 AFP has obtained a copy of the IPCC ‘Man-made Climate Change’ draft report’s 20-page Summary for Policymakers, due to be released on November 18, 2011. The report, which is subject to Government revisions before its release, appears to coincide with a series of Global natural catastrophes in the last couple of years that have increased the [...]

Dwarf Planet ‘Eris’ Gives Up More Secrets

Eris, the dwarf planet discovered in 2005,  has passed in front of a star and is providing astronomers with the clearest view of it since it was identified. The planets size and other characteristics have been difficult to measure because it is located nearly three times farther from the sun than Pluto and about 96 [...]

St. Louis Wins Game 6

Texas was leading 7-4 after the 7th inning, but the Cardinals fought back in the 9th and 10th innings to win the game 10-9. The Cardinal’s managed one run in the 8th, then in the bottom of ninth Cardinals third baseman Dave Freese stepped up to the plate and with two out and with only [...]

Madoff Regrets Deceiving Family, Not Clients

Bernie Madoff told Barbara Walters of ABC television that while he suffers from “horrible nightmares” in his North Carolina prison cell and feels despair over his estrangement from family members, he “can live with” the anger of people he defrauded. “Not seeing my family and knowing they hate me” is the worst thing about being [...]