NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2014 – Did you know that car crashes are the number one youth killer in the United States, with 390,000+ Americans injured or killed in distracted driving accidents each year? To raise awareness of this critical issue—and kick start its mission…
AndroGel manufacturers Abbot Laboratories and subsidiary AbbVie already face a number of personal injury lawsuits in the U.S. concerning their testosterone replacement products. Plaintiffs typically claim the companies failed to provide adequate warnings about the cardiovascular risks. Now, plaintif
Would you feel better about your surgery if there was a device recording every moment of it? A “surgical tracking box” is in the works in Canada, which would record surgeons’ movements and identify errors during an operation. Dr. Teodor Grantcharov told CNN that a…
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2014 – Did you know that car crashes are the number one youth killer in the United States, with 390,000+ Americans injured or killed in distracted driving accidents each year? To raise awareness of this critical issue, the Chaffin Luhana Foundation…
On September 17, 2014, an expert panel advised the Food and Drug Administration to enforce more regulations on testosterone treatment therapy drugs. Currently it is easy to get a prescription for testosterone therapy drugs and many men use them for low testosterone levels that occur…
When: 1:30pm, Monday, October 20, 2014 Where: Quaker Valley High School PITTSBURGH, PA-Chaffin Luhana Partner Eric Chaffin and Chaffin Luhana Foundation Spokesperson and Paralympian Stephani Victor will visit Quaker Valley High School on October 20, 2014 to help stop students from driving distracted
What are normally seen as “routine” medical procedures can often go very wrong. Comedienne Joan Rivers, for example, was going through a routine scoping of her throat in September 2014 when she went into a cardiac arrest, from which she never recovered. Single mother Stacey…
A September 2013 study published in the Journal of Patient Safety reported that an estimated 210,000 to 400,000 people die in hospitals every year from some sort of preventable harm. Medical malpractice claims continue to be filed in great numbers across the nation as patients…
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2014 – Did you know that car crashes are the number one youth killer in the United States, with 390,000+ Americans injured or killed in distracted driving accidents each year? To raise awareness of this critical issue, the Chaffin Luhana Foundation…
Many plaintiffs filing Risperdal lawsuits have claimed that the anti-psychotic drug caused gynecomastia (unusual breast enlargement) in young boys. A number of studies have found this connection, including a 2006 study that reported some children and adolescents taking the medication experienced ele
In April 2014, the FDA warned physicians and the public about the potential cancer risk when using power morcellators in uterine fibroid surgery. In July 2014, the administration convened an advisory panel to hear arguments for and against the use of power morcellators from scientists,…
On August 1, 2014, the family of a Virginia man filed a testosterone wrongful death lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The plaintiffs have named Androderm manufacturers Actavis and Watson Pharmaceuticals as defendants in the case. This is one of…