The Texas Medical Board has named Alan T. Moore, M.D., as interim medical director of the agency. Dr. Moore graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and received his medical degree from the U.T. Southwestern Medical School, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor…
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is planning to rewrite a wide array of federal rules with changes or additions that could block product-safety lawsuits by consumers and states. The administration has written language aimed at pre-empting product-liability litigation into 50 rules governing everything from motorcycle brakes to pain medicine. This…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is failing to stem the pollution washing into waterways from cities and suburbs, the National Academy of Sciences reported this week. According to the report’s authors, there needs to be “radical changes” in the way the federal government regulates stormwater runoff so that all waters…
BRUSSELS – European scientists warned that many teenagers across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week. The risk for hearing damage depends on sound level and exposure time. If they…
A New York jury has awarded nearly $11 million to a woman who suffered a stroke after waiting two hours for a hospital brain scan. New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens was found by the jurors to be negligent in the medical treatment of a 71 year old woman…
GlaxoSmithKline PLC agreed to pay $40 million to settle claims in a class-action lawsuit that it improperly marketed the antidepressant Paxil for use in children. The suit claimed Glaxo had withheld information that the drug was neither safe nor effective in this age group. The money will be used to…
Eli Lilly & Co. has agreed to pay $62 million to some states, to settle claims it improperly marketed Zyprexa, its top-selling drug, to patients who did not have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, its only approved uses. Attorneys general from several states had accused Lilly of marketing Zyprexa for off-label…
At its October 9-10 meeting, the Texas Medical Board took disciplinary action against 34 licensed physicians. The actions included three violations based on quality of care; two actions based on unprofessional conduct; one action based on violation of probation or prior order; one action that terminated a prior suspension; two…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued new air quality standard for lead that is expected to have a major impact in Missouri, in the heart of the nation’s lead belt. The new standard is 10 times more tougher than the old standard for lead, a toxic metal which known…
According to court recordsJohnson & Johnson has spent at least $68.7 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits filed by women who suffered blood clots, heart attacks or strokes after using the company’s Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Majority of users claimed that the patch caused deep-vein thrombosis, (blood clots in the…