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• CA Judge Denies Taser's Motion to Dismiss

  Joe Saunders | March 10, 2006 6:45 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A California judge has dismissed Taser International's Motion to Dismiss in a lawsuit arising from a 2004 death of a Monterey CA man who had been tasered. Taser International, Inc., asked the district court to dismiss the claims of the Rosa family, contending that (1) Michael Rosa's death was not reasonably foreseeable, (2) its product is not inherently dangerous, and (3) it had no duty to warn...

• Tasered Inmate Remains in Coma

  Joe Saunders | March 07, 2006 8:48 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A Tennessee man remains in a coma after being tasered while in custody for public intoxication. The FBI has begun an investigation into why the man lapsed into a coma after being tasered by a jail deputy. According to police, an M26 Taser was fired at the man after he became combative.

• Drug Trials Promised but Unseen by FDA

  Joe Saunders | March 06, 2006 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The FDA has reported that 2/3 of the drugs approved by the agency remain untested and unproven. When new drugs are approved for public use, they are supposed to report the results of clinical trials to the FDA. One drug approved in 1955 has still not complied with these tests. These studies are important in that they are intended to reveal if the drugs are working as intended and whether they...

• Obesity Raises Car Crash Death Risk

  Joe Saunders | March 05, 2006 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  If there weren't enough health risks associated with being overweight, along comes another one-maybe one you wouldn't have thought about. If you're male and obese, you're at a significantly greater risk to die as a result of a car crash according to a Milwaukee based investigation. The study cites various factors leading to this increased risk: obesity reduces the body's ability to recover...

• Guidant Officials Worried About Device Defects

  Joe Saunders | March 01, 2006 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  When Guidant Corp. came under fire last year for not revealing to doctors it's problems with its medical device, it remained positive in its public announcements. But newly released documents show that, inside Indianapolis-based Guidant, executives were struggling to contain a mounting crisis.The records illustrate how a series of miscalculations by Guidant, like its misreading of doctors'...

• FDA: Certain Parkinson's Drugs Lead to Greater Risk of Gambling

  Joe Saunders | February 15, 2006 8:34 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The FDA is reporting that certain drugs used to treat tremors associated with Parkinson's disease actually increase the risk of pathological gambling. The latest results are consistent with earlier observations and add to evidence that Parkinson's drugs may lead to impulsive behavior as they make up for depleted dopamine, a brain chemical whose deficiency marks the disease. The researchers...

• "Black Box" Drug Warnings Often Ignored by Healthcare Providers

  Joe Saunders | February 14, 2006 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In a Wall St. Journal article published today, many patients are told to use drugs with black box warning in spite of these drugs being unsuitable for them. A new study of medicines prescribed in the U.S. has found that many patients are told to use drugs with "black box" warnings even though those drugs aren't suitable for their medical needs.In a study to be published in today's Archives of...