Cancer treatments consist of many complex and delicate chemical injections. These mixtures involve many different individual drugs, all of which need to be handled with exceptional care. Recently an influx of potential glass shard contamination prompted Hospira Inc to issue a voluntary recall on many of it’s injections.   As reported by Reuters:   July ... Read more

When going to the hospital, patients hope to be cured of an ailment or injury. The thought of being exposed to even more dangerous circumstances is something every patient dreads. A recent study by the New York Times has uncovered an unusually high amount of cases of high radiation in people receiving CT scans across ... Read more

May 19, 2010 By JDJournal.com   Residents have filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey State Court, Hudson County against Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania for dumping and failing to clean up cancer-causing hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods.   According to today’s press release at PR Newswire, the ... Read more

In the state of Illinois alone 415 dry cleaners have been identified as potentially polluting nearby water sources with the toxic solvent perchloroethylene (PCI). DolanLegal.com, a team of Illinois civil rights lawyers, recently reported on this significant health risk. According to their article, the Chicago Tribune reported that “the state has found problems in nearly ... Read more

By The Associated Press Posted November 23, 2009   A Philadelphia jury has ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to pay a woman $75 million in punitive damages after finding a link between her breast cancer and a hormone-replacement drug.    The punitive damages in the case of Connie Barton were unsealed yesterday, the same day of a ... Read more