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• Stem Cell Research in Cardiology

  Steve Klearman | August 29, 2007 10:50 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Stem cell will create countless new legal issues in coming years. The following article from Reuters, taken from Yahoo News, describes recent developments in stem cell research in cardiology: By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nutritious cocktail helped human embryonic stem cells thrive and repair the damaged hearts of rats, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday....

• A Nation in Pain or Addiction?

  Steve Klearman | August 20, 2007 8:59 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Injury attorneys have long been aware of America's increasing problem with prescription pain medicines and the article below, pulled off Yahoo News this morning, confirms that a new national dialogue on this subject is in order. Legal addiction has become a major problem for the United States:MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping...

• More Fun with Allstate

  Steve Klearman | August 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  As you may have seen in earlier blogs, Allstate's Nevada Counsel has got himself into a lot of trouble with the Nevada Supreme Court and a number of District Courts and has incurred high sanctions. I received this email update from Peter Chase Neumann, one of the attorneys keeping the heat on Allstate:In the wrongful death case of Duncan Estate vs. Peri and Stratton, the Trial Court, Dept 4,...

• Melanoma Rates Continue to Rise

  Steve Klearman | August 13, 2007 8:36 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This from D. Garth Sullivan, Esq. at Indox Consulting. Mr. Sullivan writes to attorneys every week with news from legal-medical frontiers:The incidence of melanoma has steadily increased in the United States, and from 1995 to 2004, the rate of melanoma rose by more than 1% per year. The rising increase in melanoma is not specific to 1 age group, but the incidence was particularly noted among...

• Relationship Between Low LDL and Cancer

  Steve Klearman | August 01, 2007 7:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This from an email to me yesterday from Indox Consulting. More contradictions in medical research:Results from a new analysis, initially designed to determine whether there was a correlation between the extent to which statins lowered low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels and liver and muscle toxicity, suggests that the cardiovascular benefits of achieved levels of LDL cholesterol...