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• Tort Reform

  John Rudd | May 30, 2007 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Proponents of tort-reform would have you believe the debate is about frivolous lawsuits. It's really about corporate responsibility and who, if anyone, will be held accountable when consumers are defrauded, injured or killed as a result of someone else's negligence.Big businesses continue to finance a massive public relations effort lobbying legislators for more tort-reform measures....

• Tequin Linked to 20 Deaths and Many Hospitalizations

  Staff Writer | May 03, 2006 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Tom Lamb over at drug-injury.com examines the recent decision by Bristol-Myers Squibb to stop making the antibiotic Tequin. On Monday the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to ban the drug that has been linked to 20 deaths and severe cases of hyper and hypoglycemia, noting that there are many safer alternatives to treat the conditions for which tequin is primarily...