Problem with the FDA

Google Search:: "Risks vs. benefits
News-Leader.com, MO - 7 hours ago
The removal of painkiller Vioxx shows no drug is perfect. It is linked to heart attacks and strokes, but it has helped many. Patients ...

FDA Defends Treatment of Whistleblower
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO - Dec 3, 2004
WASHINGTON - The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration, which has been accused of intimidating a whistleblowing employee who raised early concerns ...

FDA Chief to Meet with Top Lawmaker Regarding Vioxx
Yahoo News - Dec 3, 2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford on Friday agreed to meet with a top Republican ...

COMMENT: FDA is just another agency too lax to demand ...
Detroit Free Press, MI - Dec 2, 2004
BY JAY BOOKMAN. After the US Food and Drug Administration discovered unsanitary conditions at a plant producing flu vaccine for the ...

More experts question drug safety system
MSNBC - Dec 2, 2004
BOSTON - In a sharp pivot, many medical authorities are questioning the fundamental safety guarantees for American drugs, threatening to dull the national ...

FDA needs more power, resources to ensure safety of drugs
Canton Repository (subscription), OH - 2 hours ago
By William B. Schultz The Washington Post. It has been a tough three years for the Food and Drug Administration, which until recently ...

Time for a change ?
Orlando Sentinel (subscription), FL - 6 hours ago
A spate of safety lapses is leading to pressure to reform t"

FDA Defends Itself

Google Search:: "Risks vs. benefits
News-Leader.com, MO - 7 hours ago
The removal of painkiller Vioxx shows no drug is perfect. It is linked to heart attacks and strokes, but it has helped many. Patients ...

FDA Defends Treatment of Whistleblower
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO - Dec 3, 2004
WASHINGTON - The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration, which has been accused of intimidating a whistleblowing employee who raised early concerns ...

FDA Chief to Meet with Top Lawmaker Regarding Vioxx
Yahoo News - Dec 3, 2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) Acting Commissioner Lester Crawford on Friday agreed to meet with a top Republican ...

COMMENT: FDA is just another agency too lax to demand ...
Detroit Free Press, MI - Dec 2, 2004
BY JAY BOOKMAN. After the US Food and Drug Administration discovered unsanitary conditions at a plant producing flu vaccine for the ...

More experts question drug safety system
MSNBC - Dec 2, 2004
BOSTON - In a sharp pivot, many medical authorities are questioning the fundamental safety guarantees for American drugs, threatening to dull the national ...

FDA needs more power, resources to ensure safety of drugs
Canton Repository (subscription), OH - 2 hours ago
By William B. Schultz The Washington Post. It has been a tough three years for the Food and Drug Administration, which until recently ...

Time for a change ?
Orlando Sentinel (subscription), FL - 6 hours ago
A spate of safety lapses is leading to pressure to reform t"

Bridgeatone Firestone Knew the Tires Could Explode

law.com - Article:

"A Florida mother and two children who were involved in a blowout-rollover accident caused by the failure of their Bridgestone/Firestone tires may sue the company for punitive damages, a state appeals court has concluded.

In a Nov. 24 opinion, the state's 4th District Court of Appeal ruled that evidence offered by the Broward County plaintiffs showed that Firestone knew about defects in its tires but delayed warning the public in order to protect its own financial interests. "

DaimlerChrysler hit with $105 million verdict in minivan seat trial

DaimlerChrysler hit with $105 million verdict in minivan seat trial:

"'Daimler has known for over 20 years that these seats are deadly dangerous and never warned anybody,' said James Butler, an attorney who represents Joshua's parents, Jeremy Flax and Rachel Sparkman. 'Instead they continue to claim there's nothing wrong and try to mislead the press, public and juries.' "