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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers on July 27, 2006, not to buy or to use for medical purposes high-strength hydrogen peroxide products, including an over-the-counter product marketed as "35 Percent Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide," because they can cause harm or death when taken internally. These products are not approved by the FDA and the agency recommends that consumers who...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announces the following recall in voluntary cooperation with the firm below. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries with cells manufactured by Sony for certain previous iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 notebook computers only.Units: About...

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A retired FBI agent who suffered a heart attack after taking the painkiller Vioxx is entitled to $50 million in compensatory damages from drug manufacturer Merck & Co., a federal jury found Thursday.The jury said Merck was negligent for failing to adequately warn doctors about the risks associated with the drug. The jury also found that Merck "knowingly misrepresented or failed to disclose"...

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A California jury has found in favor of Merck in Vioxx. The case was filed on behalf of an elderly man who suffered a heart attack as a result of taking Vioxx. Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, the jury determined that Merck did not conceal information nor did Vioxx cause his health problems. This is one of over 2000 lawsuits filed in California. Thousands of cases are also...

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The FDA and Guidant has notified the public that a subset of implantable pacemakers, cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators [ICDs] is associated with five reports of device malfunction due to the failure of a low-voltage capacitor from a single component supplier. Patients with a bad pacemaker may experience premature battery depletion and are...

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Your kidney damage or stroke that occured during or just after heart surgery may from a drug given to control bleeding during the surgery called Trasylol. It is worth investigating. According to Opednews.com,The researcher's determined that patients treated with Trasylol, had a risk of kidney failure 259% greater than patients who received no drugs. The problem for surgery patients who may...

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Tell your Senators to vote against the Asbestos Bailout Bill, S 3274. It is a $20 Billion corporate bailout for asbestos companies that knowingly poisoned people and makes it worse for asbestos victims. It is virtually identical to the bill that the Senate wisely blocked in February. The proposed legislation fails to treat victims fairly while making taxpayers, not the wrongdoers, foot the...

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Asbestos disease and the litigation brought by its victims has received a lot of media attention over the years, especially concerning the bankruptcy of a number of asbestos manufacturers like Johns-Manville and Celotex, and because of class action lawsuits that were filed attempting to reach global settlements of all asbestos claims. It is important to know that persons who are now diagnosed...

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Poorly designed or defective automobile seats can cause unnecessary injuries in rear impact collisions. These injuries could have been prevented had the seatback designs and manufacturing defects been replaced with proven safety measures that have been readily available for a long time. Problems with automobile seats can be attributed to non-sturdy and defective parts, including seatbacks, seat...

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory on June 8, 2006 concerning the possibility of birth defects in children whose mothers were taking the widely prescribed family of high blood pressure lowering drugs known as angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in their first trimesters (the first three months of pregnancy).The FDA Public Health Advisory was based...

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The U.S. Justice Department and the Food and Drug Administration have been conducting an inquiry into and Boston Scientific Corp. and Guidant's handling of safety issues related to several of its Contak Renewal and Contak Renewal 2 defibrillators. These defibrillators have had electrical flaws and have been recalled. Newly released records show that Guidant Corp. drafted a letter last year to...

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You may not know it but your health problems could be linked to your wood deck.Over 90 percent of all outdoor wooden structures in the United States and in most of the world are made with arsenic-treated lumber. Known as Chromated Copper Arsenate, or CCA, exposure to the chemicals contained in this pressure treated wood has been linked to lung cancer, bladder cancer, skin cancer, kidney cancer,...

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Can childhood autism be blamed on childhood vaccinations? Many would tell you yes as Tthat the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which until recently included a mercury-containing preservative known as thimerosal, is alleged to cause neurological damage leading to autism. The Times Online reports that the safety of the MMR innoculation, the combination vaccine given to young children and...

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Take a closer look at the beverages that you are serving your family. Kraft Foods faces lawsuits for allegedly poisoning it's customers with Benzene. will face lawsuits in three US states over allegations that one of its drinks contained cancer-causing benzene above the legal limit for tap water, According to BeverageDaily.com, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had found some...

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Take care when you continuously pop asprin. A recent Australian study links non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) with upper gastrointestinal side effects which were serious enough to require hospitalization 10% of the time.Australia's Courier Mail News reports:Royal Brisbane Hospital gastroenterologist Dr Alistair Cowen said despite the publicity surrounding NSAIDs and potential side...

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