The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation found sufficient evidence that 12 Zofran cases involving similar facts (birth defects due to taking drug during pregnancy) and a similar defendant (Zofran’s manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline) and consolidated them to a single court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, multiple news outlets reported. Zofran has been on the...

You may not know it, but an infection following a surgery may be caused by a forced-air warming blanket like the Bair Hugger blanket. These blankets are used to regulate temperatures that drop due to anesthesia, but also may be blowing possibly contaminated air into open surgical sites. The blankets, which look similar in...

About 30,000 Burley Design Child Bicycle Trailers are being recalled because the trailers with black plastic tow bar receivers can separate from the tow bar when they appear to be connected, posing a crash hazard to the child in the trailer. These items were sold new at REI, Sport Chalet and other sporting goods...

According to a March 2015 article in Bloomberg, 2.3 million patients received a prescription for testosterone in 2013, about double the number that received prescriptions in 2010. The FDA approved testosterone therapies like AbbVie Inc.’s AndroGel and Eli Lilly & Co.’s Axiron, decades ago to treat hypogonadism, which is extremely low testosterone levels in...

A 12-year-old very tragically died this morning after he was struck by a car while riding his bike, NBC San Diego News reported. The fatal accident was reported just after 7 a.m. near the intersection of Oceanside Boulevard and South Coast Highway. According to the news report, a man was pulling out of the...

A Florida school board has agreed to pay $200,000 each to the families of three high school students who died following being hypnotized George Kenney, the former North Port High School Principal who hypnotized more than 70 students, faculty and staff, all without a state license. Following hypnosis sessions in 2011 by George Kenny,...

The San Diego Union Tribune reported a man who was seriously injured when he tripped getting off the trolley in East Village two years ago will receive $21.5 million in a settlement. The victim, David Long, was stepping off the trolley at the 12th and Imperial Transit Station on May 23, 2013, when he...

The San Diego Union Tribune reported yesterday that 20-year-old Antony Schoenle has been arrested for gross vehicular manslaughter stemming from an accident Saturday in the Bay Park area that killed Guadalupe Acosta Amado and Lizette Garcia, both from Oceanside. A dog was also killed in the crash. At the arraignment at UCSD Medical Center,...

Families that have lost a loved one in a fatal DUI accident may be understandably initially hesitant to pursue a legal battle. But survivors have legal avenues available to hold wrongdoers accountable for the deaths they cause. Winning a wrongful death lawsuit sends a message to others that drunk driving will not be tolerated,...

ATHENS, GEORGIA - A pastry chef who was run over by a car while riding her bicycle last year will receive $850,000, the Athens Banner-Herald reported. The victim, Melinda Lampbert, was riding to work when a man drove out of his drive and struck her, pinning her below his vehicle until accident responders were...