Posts tagged preemption

• Now The U S Chamber Is Attacking TV Ads

  Mike Bryant | November 02, 2009 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  What do you think that members of the US Chamber spend each year on TV? I would guess it's billions and billions looking at the annual TV advertising numbers. Well apparently, like the courthouses ,...

• Great Website For Information About Our Food

  Mike Bryant | November 01, 2009 4:21 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Toxic Substances
  

  If you spend some time looking around the Injuryboard website, you will find hundreds of articles about various issues with food. The peanut butter salmonella issue was covered from a number of...

• Pharmaceutical Company Writing Good Stuff About Their Product

  Mike Bryant | September 06, 2009 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Usually when pharmaceutical companies are writing good stuff about themselves they are called advertisements. But, when they write it about themselves, except do so in ghostwritten scientific...

• The U S Chambers Doublespeak Is Always Frivolous

  Mike Bryant | August 27, 2009 8:00 PM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It's amazing what the U S Chamber will do or say. They are for free enterprise and against governmental interference while they beg for government hand outs. They claim to represent all businesses,...

• Medtronic Paid Surgeon May Have A Different Definition Of Full Disclosure

  Mike Bryant | August 26, 2009 8:40 PM | 3 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There have been a number of stories about doctors who have been paid big money by Medtronic at the time they were doing studies or prescribing the use of Medtronic products. One of those researchers...

• Congress Reaffirms And Finances A Better FDA

  Mike Bryant | July 09, 2009 7:33 AM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Search Food Safety here at the Injuryboard site and you will find all sorts of alerts. Search FDA and you will find the list of failures by the organization over the last eight years. It's been an...

• 800,000 Dollars Paid To One Doctor For What?????

  Mike Bryant | July 07, 2009 9:27 AM | 4 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This past week, Medtronic confirmed that they paid $800,000 to Timothy Kuklo, an army doctor who consulted on a Medtronic's bone morphogenic protein called Infuse, which induces the formation of...

• The U S Chamber And The Campaign For Free Enterprise

  Mike Bryant | June 25, 2009 3:30 PM | 2 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Off and on, various members of the Injuryboard have been addressing the interesting ways that the U S Chamber has been attacking the right of individuals to bring claims to court. The continued...

• Consumer Victory: Obama Issues Clear Statement Against Preemption

  Mike Bryant | June 02, 2009 9:38 AM | 4 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  For a long time here at the Injuryboard, many of us have looked at the issues surrounding preemption. Basically, the use of the federal government to override state laws. The Bush administration...

• Hydroxycut Recall Is Another Example Of The FDA's Problems

  Mike Bryant | May 16, 2009 12:40 PM | 5 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  At the Injuryboard, many of the writers have discussed the horrid state of the FDA during the Bush Administration. The reality seems to be that there was either no oversight of products or there...