Here is a riddle: Fact #1: Controlling your diabetes by taking medications to regulate blood glucose levels is good for you. Fact #2: Some medications that regulate blood glucose levels for diabetic patients cause bladder cancer. Fact #3: Bladder cancer is, without a doubt, bad for you. Fact #4: Failing to properly regulate your blood [...]

When a person is diagnosed with mesothelioma, they often find out about their diagnosis after first complaining about chest pains and shortness of breath. These symptoms are a sign of pleural effusion, or the build up of fluid in the pleura area around the lung. Unfortunately, pleural effusion is often a symptom that arises in [...]

Doctors can often make the mistake of misdiagnosing a mesothelioma patient as having lung cancer. This comes as no surprise, as the two cancers do share similar symptoms and mesothelioma is the much less common of the two.  Even though research endeavors for the mesothelioma and lung cancer are mutually exclusive, scientists are now hopeful [...]

When you are a victim of a crime, no matter how larger or small, you trust that the court system will give you due process to ensure that justice is served.  Whether you were a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, financial fraud from your banking institution or employment discrimination under the Equal Employment [...]

When you are first met with a mesothelioma diagnosis, it can be hard to regain your footing. All of the sudden you have to make some very important choices about your health and your finances with little time to do the research. One of the biggest questions that you may encounter is whether or not to [...]

On November 4th, 2011 the pharmaceutical company Fresenius sent an internal memo to its doctors practicing in the company’s many dialysis centers across America, warning them that failure to properly use one of their own products, Granuflo*, appeared to lead to a dramatic increase in the risk of cardiac arrest. In very specific terms, the [...]

This blog is the third installment in the “Industry Lies” series intended to dispel the myths of tort law. You’ve got to hand it to big business lobbyists. Seeing a big “closed” sign on the mom-and-pop shop down the street is enough to pull on anyone’s heartstrings. You have been told the sad stories about [...]

Seems like we lived in a world not too long ago where we could trust the medicines we were prescribed, the over-the-counter drugs we purchased, the information and prescriptions we received from our doctors, no questions asked. It was a world where we referred to our doctor by first name, where everyone in the family [...]

Everyday, we sign our name on the dotted line for various products and services with the assumption that those we give are business to are not trying to deceive us. It is right to think that a national company with a long-running track record of business would not engage in shady business practices that would [...]

Asbestos has often been called the “silent killer.” Often, people don’t know that they were exposed to asbestos until years later when they are suddenly diagnosed with mesothelioma. At this point, it is crucial to get the right treatments and to find a way to pay costly medical bills that just keep piling up. Now, [...]