The USDA has recalled 17,235 pounds of Daniele International salami because it is suspected of being contaminated with salmonella. To date, over 203 individuals have been sickened in 42 states, including one here in Alaska. Costco, a local retailer, is one of the retailers that has sold the company’s products.…
Researchers from the UK, Sweden and the US have established that using drugs purchased from the internet can kill and cause patients to bypass health systems that could diagnose life-threatening problems. They estimate that 90% of counterfeit drugs are sold via the internet, which has spawned global sales of over…
The public is often clueless about the true malice some corporations demonstrate in their willingness to put people’s lives in jeopardy for the sake of profit. The anti-plaintiff rhetoric of recent years has reached a fevered pitch with little understanding that to give into it undermines one’s constitutional right to…
Today’s news is that gingko biloba, touted since the 1970’s by the diet supplement industry as an herb that would improve memory or forestall cognitive decline in aging or in dementia, has been found to be useless. As routine scientific scrutiny has been applied to the nostrums of the industry…
As consumers, we have been repeatedly told that generic drugs are exact copies of their brand-name counterparts. We have been forced by insurers to accept generics over brand-name drugs. This is done by the insurer imposing financial disincentives and refusing to honor our physicians’ prescriptions without getting the doctor’s office…
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in Mensing v. Wyeth, Inc., has just ruled that generic drug manufacturers cannot use the doctrine of federal preemption as a shield to avoid liability in claims arising out of the manufacturers’ failure to warn consumers about their drugs’ dangers.…
The most recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has directly called upon Congress to give the FDA the requisite authority and resources to regulate diet supplements. The article is written by Dr. Pieter Cohen, of Cambridge Hospital, and emphasized some alarming statistics: •More than half of the…
Neil O’Donnell of the Alaska Personal Injury Law Group has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. O’Donnell was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in the area of product liability litigation. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on rigorous peer-review surveys.…
America’s highways are unsafe because trucking companies routinely violate safety standards, keeping unsafe trucks and drivers on the road. These are not minor violations, but include practices like routinely overloading trucks, failing to maintain brakes and tires, using unqualified and untrained drivers, and paying drivers in a way that encourages…
There has long been a debate in medicine, and consequently one in the law, about whether a concussion caused by trauma can lead to structural brain tissue damage and functional deficits. While many recover from such injuries without lasting deficits, it is estimated that over 30 percent suffer from the…