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In a follow up to a recent post on a dog attack that left a 2-year-old girl dead, authorities have stated the responsible dogs have since been put to sleep. The dog attack, which involved a pit bull mix and boxer bull mastiff, occurred after a the dangerous dogs escaped from their fenced in area acc
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Georgia State Representative Ed Ryders has now found himself in a precarious situation and the sad thing is he did not even really do anything to deserve it. The main reason he has made headlines all over Georgia recently is because he handed out jars of peanut butter to friends and colleagues that
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Prempro lawsuit leads to a $3 million verdict against its manufacturer Wyeth after causing an Ohio woman’s breast cancer. The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury found that Wyeth “failed to provide an adequate warning” to the plaintiff given the known side effects of it use. This was the fifth t
FDA & Prescription Drugs
On January 25, 2007 a products liability lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mrs. Ada M. Williams against Bayer Corporation and Bayer AG after receiving their drug Trasylol during her open-heart surgery. According to the Trasylol lawsuit, Ms. Williams subsequently went into kidney failure and now has to
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Reverend Gerry Hearin was tragically struck and killed in a pedestrian accident after being ran over by a vehicle near Coleman Coliseum immediately following the Alabama and Kentucky basketball game Saturday night. Hearin, a retired United Methodist Minster, was the pastor of several local churches
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been very busy in the last week or so due to the rampant contamination problems it has seen in various forms of food and products. Now the FDA has issued a warning about the use of certain jars of Earth’s Best Organic 2 Apple Peach Barley Wholesome Breakfas
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The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced a recall of Oscar Mayer’s Ready to Eat Chicken Breast Strips With Rib Meat after finding traces of Listeria monocytogenes in the strips. The contaminated chicken strip packages of concern contain the establishment number “19676”.According to wsbtv.com:
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The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) has now been in full investigation mode for the last few days concerning the peanut butter recall that has dominated the local and national news. They have identified the outbreak of Salmonella Tennessee infections that have occurred on a large multistate level
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The first of what is expected to be many peanut butter lawsuits was filed on Friday concerning the recent peanut butter salmonella outbreak by a Missouri couple. The suit names ConAgra Foods Inc. as the defendant for the gastrointestinal illnesses injuries the plaintiffs sustained after eating the m
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In the latest tale of dangerous dogs in Georgia, a 2-year-old girl was tragically killed after two dogs escaped from their fence and mauled the girl to death. The victim, identified as Robynn Bradley, was reportedly walking beside a fenced in back yard when the two dogs, a boxer mastiff mix and a pi
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Our InjuryBoard partner from Orlando, Joseph Saunders, recently made a great point about the dangers associated with the recent salmonella peanut butter outbreak in reference to our youth. It is undisputed that hundreds of thousands of children eat peanut butter sandwiches everyday for lunch and/or
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With the recent salmonella outbreak concerning Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter many people are asking the question, what is salmonella and what are its adverse effects? The short answer is that salmonella is a infectious bacteria that attacks the intestines and blood stream in most humans. T