Defective & Dangerous Products

• Beware Guidant Pacemaker Device Malfunction

  Ricky Bagolie | June 29, 2006 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Beware of Kidney Damage During Heart Surgery From Drug Trasylol

  Ricky Bagolie | June 22, 2006 1:10 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Vote No on Asbestos Bailout Bill

  Ricky Bagolie | June 21, 2006 1:44 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Asbestos, Mesothelioma & Cancer Lawsuits

  Ricky Bagolie | June 20, 2006 11:16 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Beware the Dangers of Defective Automobile Seats

  Ricky Bagolie | June 13, 2006 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• FDA PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY: BIRTH DEFECTS WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE-LOWERING DRUGS CONTAINING ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME (ACE) INHIBITORS

  Ricky Bagolie | June 12, 2006 10:38 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Did Guidant Corp. Hide Knowledge of Heart Device Defects?

  Ricky Bagolie | June 07, 2006 10:28 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Beware of Wood Decks and Playgrounds

  Ricky Bagolie | June 03, 2006 7:32 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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,...

• US study supports claims of MMR Vaccine link to autism

  Ricky Bagolie | May 30, 2006 8:43 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...

• Cancer Causing Benzene Found in Soft Drinks

  Ricky Bagolie | May 25, 2006 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  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...