Defective & Dangerous Products

• Baja Motorsports Recalls Youth ATVs to Repair Lack of Equipment

  Jenny Albano | November 21, 2007 6:05 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Baja Motorsports, in cooperation with the CPSC, is recalling around 16,000 Baja youth ATVs because they do not have a tire pressure gauge or a flag pole mounting bracket. With out these pieces of equipment riders could become injured.The recalled youth ATVs include the Baja 90, Baja Wilderness 90 and Baja Wilderness 90u. The ATVs came in blue, green, red and camouflage and "Baja" is written on...

• Doctor Receives Misconduct Allegations from Autism Vaccine Link Study

  Jenny Albano | July 17, 2007 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being investigated by Britain's General Medical Council because of problems with a study he did on the autism vaccine link. The council states that the study was conducted without proper ethical approval, and failed to disclose his link information to the autism litigators. Dr. Wakefield denies all the allegations.His study, which was published in The Lancet in 1998,...

• New Study Links Heart Surgery Drug to Increased Risk of Death

  Paul Kiesel | February 12, 2007 3:00 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Trasylol linked to increased risk of death. New study reports heart surgery drug increases risk of death. Aprotinin, a drug commonly used to prevent bleeding during heart surgery increases the risk of dying in the five years after surgery by almost 50 percent. That is the conclusion of a recent study published on Wednesday in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study...

• 2 Parkinson's Drugs Linked to Heart Damage

  Paul Kiesel | January 15, 2007 3:00 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  2 Parkinson's drugs cause heart damage. 2 new studies confirm risk of commonly used Parkinson's disease drugs.Two recent studies have confirmed earlier findings that two drugs commonly prescribed for Parkinson's disease may cause damage to the heart. The two studies, one conducted in Italy and the other in Germany, were published this month in The New England Journal of Medicine. They both show...

• $11 Million Awarded in Defective Seatbelt Case

  Miriam Schimmel | February 27, 2008 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Mitsubishi was found liabile this week for a defective seatbelt which caused the death of a 25 year old passenger in a Montero SUV.Car manufacturer Mitsubishi was ordered by a West Palm Beach, Florida court to pay $11 million to a couple whose 25 year old son died in a crash when the Montero SUV he was riding in rolled over. Of that amount, $10 million was awarded for pain and suffering over...

• Beware Defective, Unsafe and Lead Tainted Toys This Season

  Paul Kiesel | December 14, 2007 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  The volume of lead-tainted toys recalled from the market this year has been staggering. Parents face very difficult choices this holiday season as they try to shop for kids. Many stores have not bothered to clear aisles of toys that are free of lead, and some stores simply haven't been able to remove all the lead toys because of the sheer volume of the recalls:Many Chicago-area stores are...

• FDA Demands New Warnings for ADHD Drugs

  Paul Kiesel | February 26, 2007 3:00 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  FDA requires new ADHD warning labels. Added warnings advised on ADHD drugs.An FDA advisory panel voted on Thursday to recommend the most serious type of warning labels for drugs treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The new warning will include cautionary language of those medications causing psychiatric and heart problems, including death.Approximately 3.3 million children and 1.5...

• FDA Promises More Focus on Drug Safety

  Paul Kiesel | February 05, 2007 3:00 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  FDA pledges to improve its safety program. New promises from the FDA. Last week the Food and Drug Administration promised to make significant changes to the U.S. drug safety program. Its pledge comes as a result of last falls scathing report issued by a blue ribbon panel that found the FDA's drug safety program is in serious need of change. Specifically, the panel found that FDA officials were...

• FDA Holds Hearing on Safety of Drug Coated Heart Stents

  Paul Kiesel | December 11, 2006 12:03 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  FDA reviews dangers of heart stents. Drug coated heart stents under review by governmental agency.Last week the FDA brought together a distinguished group of scientific experts for two days of hearings on the safety of drug coated heart stents. These small mesh tubes are designed to prop open diseased arteries which have been clogged by deadly plaque build up.Since the introduction of drug...

• Bayer admits failure to discolose Trasylol risks

  Paul Kiesel | October 01, 2006 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  German drug manufacturer Bayer failed to notify the FDA of increase risks of death, serious kidney damage, congestive heart failure and strokes associated with taking the drug Trasylol.In yet another example of the Pharmaceutical industry's failure to provide complete information, Bayer acknowledged, this week, it "mistakenly" failed to notify the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) about...