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A faint rotten-egg smell drifts off a covered lagoon a hundred yards from a well-traveled Missouri gravel road.
This is battleground — ground zero in what some see as a high-stakes fight for the future of Missouri agriculture.
But in Kansas City law offices 80 miles away, combatants prepare for another showdown over the smells drifting from this 80,000-head hog operation.
Is the stench an obnoxious affront to neighbors or simply the “odor of agriculture” that comes with life in the country?
In 2003, GSK initiated a retrospective analysis of women, dating back to 1995, who had taken antidepressants in the first trimester of their pregnancies and had given birth to children with major congenital malformations. The study found an association between Paxil and congenital malformations in mothers taking Paxil in the first trimester.
Another study conducted by researchers in Denmark and published in Pharmacoepidemology and Drug Safety in 2005 showed a more than 2-fold increase for congenital malformations in women taking Paxil compared to other antidepressants.
In September 2005, GSK sent out a “Dear Doctor” letter informing physicians throughout the United States that the results of its analysis showed a higher rate of “congenital malformations associated with the use of Paxil as compared to other antidepressants” in infants born to women taking antidepressants during the first trimester of pregnancy.
The FDA has issued three Public Health Advisories since December 2005 concerning the risk of congenital heart defects and has changed Paxil’s pregnancy category from C to D, which indicates that “[t]here is positive evidence of fetal risk.”
Switzerland’s medicines supervisor has said it will investigate allegations an oral contraceptive contributed to a fatal lung embolism in a woman.
The embolism occurred ten months after the woman starting taking Yaz birth control pills produced by German firm Bayer. She died in mid-September. Swissmedic announced on Friday it would look into suspicions of a possible link.
Bayer could not comment on the case but said it would take any possible link seriously. It expressed sympathy with the woman’s family, saying her death was tragic regardless of whether there was a connection to its contraceptive pill.
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 copper — that Beaver’s doctor mentioned that getting too much zinc can trigger loss of copper.
The only source of that much zinc they surmised was the tubes of PoliGrip denture cream he had been overusing for a decade.
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, a former environmental consultant.
”There’s got to be a reason for that, which to me it follows that the last two years that most of the poultry litter in this region has been trucked out. But it looks to me like that’s making an impact on the river,” Peyton said.
But Oklahoma says the industry needs to do more, and its closely watched case against 11 companies — including food giants Tyson Foods Inc. and Cargill Inc. — goes to trial Thursday.
It’s been a long-standing practice among poultry farmers in the Illinois River watershed to spread their chickens’ droppings on their fields. But as big business took over the production of broilers, the amount of waste being spread on local fields ballooned — to an estimated 345,000 tons annually in recent years, according to Oklahoma.
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 “getting a lot of flak” from patients about Seroquel’s diabetes links, according to a note unsealed as part of a lawsuit.
AstraZeneca wrote in November 2002 to Japanese doctors that it received a dozen reports of diabetes-related cases tied to Seroquel “where causality with the drug could not be ruled out.”
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 few discussions with the Food and Drug Administration over questionable advertising campaigns seeming to suggest that Yasmin/Yaz has less side effects than other contraceptive medications.
Recent reports indicate that dangerous side effects could occur in women with preexisting conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or obesity.
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 find the key to the lab.
They couldn’t locate an anesthesiologist. And then one doctor couldn’t even find the lab itself, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Minutes turned to hours as the 52-year-old clothing salesman’s condition worsened.
“We all felt a sense of desperation and frustration,” said Baruch Goldbrenner, 27, who watched his father’s health deteriorate.
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 speedway after an accident left the boy with traumatic brain injuries that limit his mobility and mental capacity.
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 presented by lawyers for the family of an injured child suing the company.
“Taken at face value this presents an alarming finding,” according to the internal report. That language was later deleted, the documents show. The information was never submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, former FDA doctor Suzanne Parisian told jurors Sept. 18.
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