Tag: "jury" at medical news

A Porcine Dolly

...suppressed animals can be. Needles to say that the jury is still out on using pigs as a granary for much need organs for transplant....

Merck to pay $ 253.5 million to Vioxx victim family

On Friday, a Texas jury found Merck liable for the death of Robert C. Erns... the company. After two days of deliberations, the jury said that Carol Ernst, Mr. Ernst’s widow, // should be awarded $ 253.5 million. Over 5 years, abou...

Judgment In Favor Of Merck For Vioxx Drug

Atlantic City jury has given a judgment in favor of Merck the manufac...g in New Jersey State. Earlier in August a Texas jury found Merck liable for the death of Robert C. Ernst, who died in May 2001 after taking Vioxx, a pain...

Lip Piercing Can Be Fatal

..., Sheffield was reduced to tears after a coroner's jury returned the verdict of 'death by misadventure.' // Daniel died in December 2002 - two months after he got his lip pierced in a salon in the city. He was admitted to a hospital after vomiting and developed a raging fever. Commenting on the verdict...

Gynaecologist Faces Stiff Prison Sentence On Counts Of Sexual Abuse

... a four-week trial by a King County Superior Court jury in Seattle, Dr. Charles Momah, an obstetrician and gynaecologist was convicted on Wednesday of two counts // of rape and two counts of indecent liberties against four women who came to his clinics for treatment. Momah could face 16 years in prison i...

Breast cancer patient lost her case

... of dollars as a compensation to her doctor as the jury rejected her case against the doctor//. Doctor Robert Newton is the family doctor of Deborah Carney against whom she had put a case for negligent treatment as they feel that the doctor missed an early breast cancer diagnosis. Carney had put a case ag...

Novel Rules And Regulations For Cardiovascular Catheterization Labs.

...nn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA) and a jury of skilled doctors. Nearly 80% of the SCAI membe...change from the existing rules. Dr Chamber and his jury set out mainly to the various Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has gathered the most r...

Illicit body parts from cadavers used for transplant

...udulently obtained, the Daily News said. A grand jury has been hearing evidence against at least a half-dozen funeral homes and Biomedical Tissue on allegations that they conspired to sell stolen body parts. Authorities believe hundreds of corpses, including that of "Masterpiece Theater" host Alistair ...

Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled

...y. The board's action came after a federal grand jury had accused Totada R Shanthaveerappa, a practition...weed killer and insecticide to treat patients. The jury had returned an 87-count indictment accusing him of falsely billing insurance companies that he was ...

HIV positive man deliberately had unprotected sex

The Adelaide Supreme Court jury is hearing the case of a HIV positive man who was ... treated the man for HIV between 1999 to 2001. The jury heard the voice tape-recorded two years of the accused admitting that he had unprotected sex with hi...

Australian Court Finds Man Guilty of Spreading HIV/AIDS

A South Australian Supreme Court jury has found a South African man guilty of spreading HIV/AIDS by having unprotected sex with three women. 34-year-old Andre Chad // Parenzee had led the women to believe that he had cancer. One of the three women, who also happens top be a mother of...

Use of forceps causes baby’s deat

... in the right position. A Birmingham Crown Court jury was said that Olivia Rowlings was born at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on May 14, 2002, and died after eight hours due to serious head and brain injuries. Dr El-Khadem was charged with her manslaughter and was accused of failing to carry out proper ...

Could Long Tern Vioxx Users Suffer From Heart Attacks?

...from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, told a jury at the latest Vioxx product liability trial that t...Co.'s. The doctor testified on Tuesday and told a jury that the studies, covering a total of about 28,000 patients, contained no evidence that Vioxx expose...

Doctor Grilled In Court For False Report About Vioxx Health Risk

...dow, a user of Vioxx receive a multimillion-dollar jury award. Other similar trials that were taken up in the state and federal courts had ended up in favor of Merck. Rayburn was peppered with questions about studies and articles that demonstrated an increased risk of heart attack in those who used Viox...

Merck in the Dock Due To Vioxx

The Vioxx case takes a bad turn when the Texas jury awarded $32 million for the family of a 71-year-ol... case against Vioxx maker Merck & Co. Inc. The jury awarded Leonel Garza's family $7 million in compensatory damages for mental anguish and personal los...

Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case

...rney Barbara Van Gelder has mentioned that a grand jury had begun a criminal investigation of Lester Crawford. She is believed to have told a federal magistrate, in a telephone hearing, on Thursday, that she would instruct him to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if ordered to a...

Vioxx Not Safe Even For Short Term Use

...ioxx lawsuits. The company has been hit with three jury awards totaling $298.3 million, two of which involved short-term use of the painkiller. It is also associated with the death of a man who took the drug for a period of 30 days. Linda Levesque, assistant professor of epidemiology at Queen's Univers...

American Wins Lawsuit Over Penile Implant Malfunction

...table being around his grandchildren. In 2004, a jury awarded him $750,000, but a judge called the amount excessive and reduced it to $400,000. The Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed the award in a ruling Friday. (Source: IANS)...

Indian Australian Doctor Charged for Performing Illegal Abortion

... Reports here said the decision was reached by a jury of three men and eight women Wednesday after about 16 hours of deliberation about a series of complex medical and legal questions. The doctor now faces a maximum 10-year jail term. Sood, 56, is the first doctor in NSW since 1971 to be tried over a...

Indian Doctor in Britain Jailed for Molesting Patients

...said. Andrew Hockton, defending lawyer, told the jury that the small, bespectacled doctor was "highly respected" in the profession. He said: "He's the sort of man who puts himself out for others." He said all the intimate internal examinations were justified and that his client "completely refuted" t...

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