approval of medications protects manufacturing companies from product liability lawsuits filed in state courts, the
reports (Oliphant,
, 10/6).
The case,
v. Levine
, involves Diana Levine, a Vermont woman who lost her hand and forearm to gangrene after she received an injection of the nausea medication Phenergan into an artery during a push IV injection, which is more potent and takes less time to act than a traditional injection. The Phenergan Read the rest of this entry »

Huffman noted that while PCRM and The Cancer Project frequently reference nitrite and nitrate as carcinogenic, the federal National Toxicology Program has concluded quite the opposite following a multi-year study in 2000. As a result of these important findings, nitrite has been excluded from the U.S. master list of carcinogens. Likewise, National Institutes of Health researchers are finding not just nitrite’s safety, but its benefits. They are Read the rest of this entry »

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford announced on Tuesday that he is looking to work with Cooper Green Hospital on a discount program for prescription drugs. The mayor said he estimates there are more than fifty three thousand people in the city that would be eligible for the assistance. More than thirteen thousand are living below the poverty line.
Mayor Langford said he plans to ask council members to give $150 thousand dollars each from their district Read the rest of this entry »