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The metal debris shed from metal-on-metal hip implants is thought to be responsible for many of the ailments suffered by metal-on-metal hip replacement patients. If chromium and cobalt are shed by a metal-on-metal device, the particles can leech into the surrounding tissue and blood stream, eventually making their way into the lymph nodes. Research has […]

Health Canada, the government health regulatory agency has issued a safety warning about the risk of blood clots with the drug thalidomide. While uncommon, blood clots in the arteries can happen in patients taking thalomide (thalidomide) especially during the first 5 months of use. Some clots have resulted in death due to heart attack or […]

Louise Barry, a 41 year old employee of Dunnes Stores Clonmel has been awarded €54,600 damages by the High Court for injuries sustained by her in an accident at Dunnes Stores on the 13th October 2004. At that time Ms Barry was employed as a part-time sales assistant and was 6 weeks pregnant. Her job […]

The UK health regulator MHRA has issued a press release confirming that codeine-containing medicine should only be used in children over 12 years of age to treat short lived moderate pain. This is only if it cannot be relieved by other pain killers such a paracetamol or ibuprofen. Where it is used in children it […]

A trial has gone underway in California accusing Philip Morris USA, unit of the Altria Group Inc of falsely marketing its so-called “light” cigarettes as being a healthier option over tradition cigarettes. The lawsuit which seeks $543.6 million in restitution to California smoker for money spent on cigarettes, was brought as a class action and […]

The HSE has ordered a review in the coming weeks of patients in Ireland fitted with metal-on-metal hip replacements. The review follows a similar investigation carried out in the UK last year by the MHRA, the UKs medical devices regulatory body. A metal-on-metal hip is thought to be stronger than a traditional hip replacement device […]

A 17 year old Spanish student who was in Ireland on the 4th of February 2009 with a number of his classmates learning the English language suffered serious personal injuries when he was struck by a Dublin Bus at Herbert Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow. At 4.50 pm that afternoon the plaintiff and his friends purchased […]

Beverly Schlenther began smoking cigarettes in 1957, at age 14 and became addicted to nicotine, smoking one-and-a-half to two packs per day for more than 40 years. In her early 50s, Schlenther was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She died of the disease in 2010 at age 67. Schlenther’s husband sued R.J.  Reynolds […]

In America, a Mississippi woman has alleged that she suffered injuries caused by Ethicon Inc’s trans- vaginal mesh device.   The patient alleged the injuries were as a result of Ethicon’s Pro-lift and TVT Sling and that the products were defective.   According to her complaint she was implanted with a Pro-lift TVT sling on the 20th […]

Tracey Nelson, whose son Joshua, was born on the 24th of February 2000 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda sued a number of Defendants for negligence. She claimed that she suffered a Symphysiotomy (a splitting or separation of the Symphysis- Pubis) towards the end of her labour or in the course of the delivery […]