Health

Our Health coverage explores the medical side of injury: acute care, long-term rehabilitation, mental-health impacts, and how medical errors and malpractice affect recovery.

Is Your Prescription Safe?

Taking the wrong prescription drug, too many of a prescribed drugs or missing the wrong prescription drugs can harmful. Regarding opioids, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced March 22, 2016 that it is requiring class-wide safety labeling changes for immediate-release (IR) opioid pain med

By Billy Cunningham

/ 24 Mar 2016

A Call to Arms for Food Safety

Once upon a time America was looked upon as the breadbasket of the world but that is no longer the case. Our crops are no longer a staple for the rest of the world. While some of the decline in the world’s dependence on American…

By Clay Rossi

/ 27 Aug 2013

Alabama Fungal Meningitis CDC Health Alert

With all the news about fungal meningitis outbreak, a lot of us in Alabama have breathed a sigh of relief because none of the products were apparently shipped to or actually used in…

By Billy Cunningham

/ 15 Oct 2012

FDA finds E. Coli in Nestle Cookie Dough Sample…

How many times have you herad that one more cookie won’t kill you? Well today’s news release by the FDA, shows that this may not be true. Here is the full…

By Troy Schwant

/ 30 Jun 2009

FDA warns against using certain nasal cold remedy products…

According to this report, the FDA warns that using certain Zicam nasal cold remedies can reduce and in some cases completely eliminate the sense of smell in some users. Please check your medicine…

By Troy Schwant

/ 17 Jun 2009

Off Label Uses of Prescription Drugs

Off label use is a drug is prescribed for a purpose, at a dose, or through a route of administration that has not been approved by the FDA. After clinical testing the FDA approves drugs for specific…

By Pete Burns

/ 9 Oct 2008

Durogesic Patch – Informed Consent

We represent a lady who has experienced brain damage as the result of inappropriate prescription of a Durogesic Patch. She had one day surgery and was sent home wearing a Durogesic Patch. The…

By Pete Burns

/ 5 Oct 2008

Medical Malpractice

Desipramine is a dangerous drug which has been associated with sudden deaths in children and adolescents.

By Pete Burns

/ 1 May 2008