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• Medical Malpractice Settlement could be Capped

  Christina Cole | January 05, 2007 5:33 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  A Stark County woman was awarded $1.6 million in her medical malpractice verdict after a 2004 abdominal surgery left her with the loss of 55 centimeters of her bowel, a life threatening infection and chronic diarrhea.Now, the question is, whether the award will remain $1.6 million or will it shrink under the 2003 state legislation that capped medical malpractice damages.The issue at hand is not...

• Clark County Inmate Dies; Family Filing Wrongful Death Suit

  Christina Cole | December 15, 2006 6:10 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Police say an inmate at the Clark County Detention Center died last week after he injured his head in a fall. But, the man's family does not trust what authorities are saying happened and they are planning to file a wrongful death suit.According to the Las Vegas Police, David Davell Reece, 36, injured his head on December 2nd after falling in his disciplinary isolation cell. Reece, who refused...

• Vegas NHRA Accident Leaves Driver Hospitalized

  Christina Cole | January 30, 2007 10:17 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Brittany Force, the daughter of 14-time NHRA Funny Car companion John Force, was under observation at Las Vegas Hospital on Saturday after a car accident when she hit the wall during preseason testing at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.Making her second test run in a Super comp dragster, Force, shook the tires after leaving the starting line and brushing the left-lane retaining wall. She...

• Inadequate Warnings: What is all the Fuss About?

  Peter Wetherall | August 20, 2008 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  The “Warnings” section of themetoclopramide label contains a discussion of the possible side effects ofextrapyramidal symptoms.  It reads: WARNINGS: Extrapyramidalsymptoms, manifested primarily as...

• Medical Literature and Advances in Science: Big Pharma Can't Read

  Peter Wetherall | August 19, 2008 8:39 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

      There are three ways that drugcompanies can ensure patient safety. First, of all, they can look at the adverse event reports which they arereceiving or that they get from the Food and Drug...

• Big Pharma:Too Lazy to Ensure Patient Safety?

  Peter Wetherall | August 18, 2008 6:39 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Allmanufacturers and distributors of prescription pharmaceutical products in theUnited States who hold an approved New Drug Application (hereinafter “NDA”) oran Abbreviated New Drug Application...

• The FDA and the IRS

  Peter Wetherall | August 10, 2008 9:17 PM | 1 CommentLas Vegas, NV

  Clark County residents, as well as every other American consumer of prescription drug products, should consider whether the FDA is too cozy with the industry it regulates particularly in light of...

• Prevalence of Tardive Dyskinesia Found to be 100x Greater Than Stated in the Warning Label

  Peter Wetherall | August 06, 2008 2:39 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  In this blog, I continue our series on Tardive Dyskinsia, Tardive Dystonia and Akathasia,   Physicians are familiar with Tardive Dyskinesia through their experiences with drugs such as Thorazine and...

• 77 More Hepatitis Cases Diagnosed May Be Linked to Vegas Clinic

  Jenny Albano | May 09, 2008 3:50 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Seventy-seven more people have been diagnosed with hepatitis C that may be traced to a Las Vegas outpatient clinic, where all these people had been treated. The 77 people are among about 400...

• Endoscopy Center Calamity - Accidental or Reckless?

  Peter Wetherall | March 02, 2008 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  So was is Endoscopy Center catastrophe an "accident," or an instance of calculated, reckless indifference to the rights and safety of fellow human beings? I have my opinion as a lawyer handling these claims, and so do others from their vantage.Brian Labus, a senior epidemiologist at the Southern Nevada Health District, is quoted in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal as saying, "This didn't happen...