Avon Products Inc. was ordered [ in a California talc lawsuit ] to pay $10.3 million in punitive damages to a woman who blamed her cancer on talc in its cosmetics, in the first such case the company has lost in US litigation. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury that punished Avon Friday for hiding the risks that some of its talc-based powders … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2022
Valtrex Side Effect: DRESS Skin Reaction, Can be Fatal
According to the Health Product InfoWatch December 2022 edition released by Health Canada on December 22, 2022, cases of Valtrex-associated DRESS have been reported as a Valtrex side effect. Further, therein, it is reported that GlaxoSmithKline Inc. has updated the Canadian product monograph for Valtrex to add information about the risk of … [Read more...]
Preoperative immunotherapy for mesothelioma shows favorable outcomes
In a study published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that treating patients who have resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma, meaning that their tumor can be removed with surgery, with immunotherapy [ with immune checkpoint inhibitors ] ahead of surgery resulted in favorable … [Read more...]
Benzene Facts: Learn About the Use of This Toxic Chemical, as well as the Science, Medical, and Legal Aspects
This Benzene Facts page provides some basic information about the use of benzene, a common but toxic chemical, as well as the scientific, medical, and legal aspects of benzene exposure. As such, this Benzene Facts information may be especially helpful to workers diagnosed with leukemia cancer or a blood disease that might be related to their … [Read more...]
Tepezza Medical Articles About Drug Side Effects Focus on Hearing Issues
We are investigating possible Tepezza drug injury cases where the patient, while using Tepezza, started to experience hearing loss or other hearing problems. Specifically, those Tepezza hearing issues include: Hearing loss, ranging from impairment to deafness (Hypoacusis and Sensorineural Hearing Loss) Sound or noise sensitivity that makes … [Read more...]
Asbestos — two to three times more deadly than known
“Clouds of dust were falling on us at every blow of the truncheon, but at that time we knew nothing about asbestos,” recalled Jesús Ropero Calcerrada, a 73-year-old man who was tasked with scraping asbestos from railway carriages during his working life in Beasáin, in the Basque country in Spain. He and others were not offered any protection from … [Read more...]