We typically don’t think of medical devices as “products” that need to be evaluated for safety and quality. When the doctors put them into our bodies, we never see them again, and hope they work as they as are designed to. But when those designs have flaws, terrible things can happen. Just take a look:…
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, a Wayne County sheriff’s deputy was injured while working an accident in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 in Indiana (IN). While investigating an accident between two tractor-trailers near the 150-mile marker, the deputy was struck by a box truck pulling a car trailer. The victim was standing behind his…
Decades of evidence that the narcotic painkiller propoxyphene caused irregular heartbeats in users that were so severe some people taking the medication died suddenly from heart attacks prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ask drug makers to pull their propoxyphene products from the market in November 2010. The leading manufacturer of the drug,…
The second wrongful death lawsuit to come out of a fatal 2009 truck crash in Woodstock, Virginia (VA), has been settled between the administrator of the victim’s estate, the truck driver and the company that operated the vehicle involved in the crash. The suit was filed on behalf of the estate of 27-year-old Hilario Guox…
Safeway is enhancing its efforts to ensure that pharmacy protocols are followed after a six-week pregnant woman was given the wrong medication at one of its stores. Mareena Silva was given a prescription for Methotrexate–a drug used to treat cancer–instead of the antibiotic ordered by her doctor at a Safeway in Fort Lupton, Colorado (CO)….