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A Call for Tighter Drug Ad Oversight

From ConsumerAffairs.com: "AMA Calls For Tighter Drug Ad Oversight: Many of the ads are misleading, doctors complain"--

It's hard to turn on TV without being bombarded with ads for prescription drugs, offering cures for everything from EDS to acid reflux. The American Medical Association says many of the ads contain misleading information and need tighter controls.

AMA President-elect Dr. Nancy Nielsen expressed her organizations concerns in testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

"Direct-to-consumer ads often portray drugs through rose-colored glasses by including more information
about a drug's benefits than risks," said Nielsen. "Imbalances in these ads can diminish patient understanding of certain drug risks, and increase the need for an ongoing dialogue between patients and physicians about the benefits and risks of prescription drugs."

--Posted by St. Louis personal injury lawyers and attorneys and the St. Louis County accident attorneys of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C., handling car accident, truck accidents, personal injury, pharmaceutical cases, products liability injuries, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, truck accidents, and all other types of injury cases.

Flood of Trayslol Lawsuits

From Reuters via Yahoo! News: "Bayer CEO says faces 78 Trasylol lawsuits in U.S."--

Germany's Bayer AG is facing 78 lawsuits in the United States linked to its Trasylol drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, its chief executive said on Friday.

"We are not aware of any lawsuit outside the United States," Werner Wenning told a shareholders' meeting.

--Posted by Madison County Illinois personal injury lawyers and attorneys and the Edwardsville Illinois accident attorneys of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C., handling car accident, truck accidents, personal injury, pharmaceutical cases, products liability injuries, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, truck accidents, and all other types of injury cases.

Yahoo May Be Sued

From Reuters: "Yahoo may face lawsuit flood after talks collapse," by Michael Erman--

Yahoo Inc likely faces a flood of shareholder lawsuits for rejecting a $47.5 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp, even if investors find holding the company responsible to be an uphill battle.

Microsoft pulled its sweetened $33-per-share offer on Saturday because the Internet company was holding out for $37 per share, even though Microsoft's price was more than 70 percent above where Yahoo shares were trading before the takeover battle started more than three months ago.

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Bextra, Celebrex Cases Are Settling

Form the Health Blog of the Wall Street Journal: "Pfizer Starts Cutting Deals on Celebrex & Bextra Lawsuits," by Jacob Goldstein--

Pfizer has reached tentative settlements with lawyers representing hundreds of people who say the painkillers Celebrex and Bextra caused heart attacks and strokes, the WSJ is reporting this afternoon.

Celebrex and Bextra are in the same class of drugs as Merck’s Vioxx, but Pfizer is taking a different legal path than Merck to clean up claims the medicines injured people. First Merck litigated cases one by one, then it cut a big, omnibus deal aiming to settle all the remaining cases at once.

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Hepatitis Lawsuit Settled

From Newsday.com: "Doctor tied to hepatitis cases settles lawsuit," by Michael Amon--

Dr. Harvey Finkelstein, the Dix Hills physician who the state Department of Health says put thousands of patients at risk by reusing syringes, has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit with a Syosset man who claimed he got hepatitis C in the doctor's office. The financial settlement marks the first resolution of several lawsuits filed after a Department of Health investigation found that Peter Mattmuller, 66, had been infected in Finkelstein's office.

The lawsuit contended that the infection occurred because Finkelstein used a syringe multiple times on the patient seen before Mattmuller, contaminating multidose medicine vials that were then the source of injections for Mattmuller.

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Eat a Goat?

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Goat: The other red meat," by Georgina Gustin--

In a land of swine and steak, Tom Mueller sees another meat on the horizon.

The 38-year-old farming entrepreneur stands at the edge of one of his fields, looking out at a herd of goats as the animals graze on the spring-green grass and their newly born kids cavort and tumble.

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Rebate Checks Will Help

From the Associated Press via Yahoo! News: "Bush says rebates going out Monday should help economy"--

President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy.

"Starting Monday, the effects of the stimulus will begin to reach millions of households across our country," Bush said Friday in remarks on the South Lawn of the White House.

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Next Stop: Indiana

From the Associated Press via Yahoo! News: "Candidates on equal footing in Indiana," by Jonathan Martin--

With a demographic landscape that's well-suited to both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, Indiana is shaping up to be the most consequential battleground of the remaining states.

In a signal of the state's importance -- and of his desire to end the evening in a place more favorably inclined to him -- Obama appeared with Hoosier-born rocker John Mellencamp on Tuesday night in Evansville, Ind., as the Pennsylvania vote was being counted.

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Bigger Quake to Come?

From the Associated Press via Yahoo! News: "Scientists: Even Bigger Quake Could Hit Midwest," by Robin Lloyd--

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that rocked the Midwest on Friday was felt from Kansas to Georgia, and aftershocks could continue for months at this strange seismic zone at the nation's center and even trigger another big quake, a geophysicist said.

The quake occurred on a northern extension of the New Madrid fault, about 6 miles north of Mt. Carmel, Ill. The New Madrid fault was responsible for devastating quakes in the Mississippi Valley in 1811 and 1812. So the Friday quake and its aftershocks likely are raising the blood pressure of some residents and scientists.

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