The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it “is reviewing adverse event reports of liver injury in patients taking the weight loss drug orlistat, marketed as the prescription drug Xenical and the over-the-counter medication Alli.” Thus, the poor safety record of weight-loss drugs seems unblemished. Or, more accurately, as filled with blemishes as…
Virginia’s oversight of commercial day care centers for children require a major overhaul, my colleague Jim Lewis notes in his most recent post to the Virginia Beach Injuryboard. EJL
After a man drove the wrong way on U.S. 321, a North Carolina woman has died and two others were injured as he slammed into a pickup truck. It is still not known why the driver ended up going in the wrong direction. According to the Hickory Daily Record 71-year-old Daisy Mae Christopher Buff died…
Civil charges that a Norfolk police officer used excessive force when he repeatedly used his Taser to shock a mentally disabled woman because she would not turn down the radio she played while exercising with a hula hoop near Wards Corner have been settled for $65,000. The Virginian-Pilot reported on Saturday that Pamela Brown’s legal…
An ongoing investigation of improper prostate cancer treatments at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Philadelphia has revealed that nearly all of the men who underwent a radiotherapy procedure received doses that either did them no good or caused potential harm. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week that cases of under- and overdosing radiation for veterans…