When he began getting weak, 61-year-old Ronald Beaver figured he might just be feeling his age. Eventually his problem was traced to a serious blood disorder caused by low levels of copper. It wasn’t until several weeks later — after the man from Tamarac, Fla., started getting daily doses of…
Oklahoma brought a pollution lawsuit in 2005 against the Arkansas poultry industry, suggesting the threat of legal action may have spurred the companies to do better at policing themselves. ”The water quality is getting better, and this year, especially, we had very little algae,” said Archie ”Trey” Peyton III, 35,…
An AstraZeneca Plc saleswoman told a U.S. doctor the antipsychotic Seroquel didn’t cause diabetes almost four years after the company warned Japanese physicians about the drug’s links to the disease, internal documents show. Nancy White, the saleswoman, and a colleague met with an unidentified doctor in July 2006 who reported…
Yasmin (also known as Yaz/drospirenone/ethinyl Estradiol. Generic : Ocella) is a birth control pill developed and manufactured by Bayer, AG. The medicine works by disrupting a woman’s natural menstrual cycle and providing a daily dose of hormones to regulate a new menstrual cycle. Bayer AG has been involved in a…
A Brooklyn man brought to Maimonides Medical Center with chest pains in July 2008 endured what his family now calls a tragedy of errors that led to his death. Jacob Goldbrenner was sent to the Brooklyn hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab so doctors could treat his ailing heart. But they couldn’t…
A Tarrant County jury has awarded more than $11 million to the family of a boy who was seriously injured after being struck by a car driven by another child in the parking lot at Texas Motor Speedway. The parents of Ryan Davies, who was injured in 2006, sued the…
GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s scientists were alarmed by a rising number of birth defects among pregnant women taking the antidepressant Paxil in 1997, according to internal documents revealed in a trial in Philadelphia. There was a 13.3 percent rate of incidence for congenital abnormalities as of November 1997, according to the documents…
New environmental tests confirm extremely high levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where American troops stored the herbicide during the Vietnam War. “Time is of the essence” to finish cleaning up the site, now home to…
Doctors should prescribe the birth- control pills that are the least likely to cause blood clots, according to a study of more than 3,000 women published in the British Medical Journal. Oral contraceptives containing levonorgestrel and a low dose of estrogen, such as Bayer AG’s Microgynon 30, were associated with…
Forty years ago, on September 4, 1969, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared the new birth control pill to be “safe” for use by women to regulate births. Forty years later, the true safety of oral contraception is still in question. In 1951, steroid biologist Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus…