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Tom is a 48 year old guy from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

I live on the coast in North Carolina. I am an attorney who is learning to use Web 2.0 (or whatever-you-call-it) tools to collect and disburse information pertinent to my law practice -- as well as my personal interests, of course. On my Other Sites / Web 2.0 page at my LambLawOffice.com site you can see my several web sites, and I have listed the various Social Networking sites where I participate. Thanks for dropping by, and let me know if you have a web site, blog, etc. that you think that I should take a look at. Have a good day.

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On The Other Side Of Mesothelioma: A Doctors Story Of His...

Rated Oct 20 • 1 review • medical science • asbestoshub.com

EXCERPT: In a sobering account of one doctor's diagnosis of mesothelioma, "A patient's journey" (BMJ, subscription required), Dr. Kieran Sweeney seeks to expose the dire shortcomings of healthcare professionals' interactions with their patients. Through conversation, facial expressions, and mannerisms a doctor has a profound effect on how a patient copes with being diagnosed with a terminal disease. Dr. Sweeney hopes to make a change in the way that doctors currently conduct themselves when addressing the needs of sick patients.
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Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information...

Rated Oct 08 • 1 review • health, fda, drugs, drug safety, drug injury • fda.gov

Latest information from FDA about safety "signals" for prescripition drugs approved for sale in U.S.
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Pharmafocus.com

Rated Sep 17 • 1 review • health, pharmacology, big pharma, drug safety • pharmafocus.com

EXCERPT: The US regulator has sent a warning letter to Bayer indicating it found "significant deviations from US current good manufacturing practices" in an inspection of one of the company's active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing facilities.

The plant, located in Bergkamen in Germany, was inspected by the FDA in March, and Bayer provided details of the measures it was taking to bring the plant back into compliance the following month. FDA then sent a warning letter to Bayer in August, posting it on its website earlier this week.
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The Alcoa Precedent

Rated Sep 03 • 1 review • health, law, lung cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma • cityviewmag.com

EXCERPT: Few things can affect a parent like the thought of having to bury their child. Imagine it is your child and that their death was caused by something you did. Even if those actions were taken with the best of intentions, such an outcome could render the most stoic adult, completely inconsolable. On January 1, 2005, Amanda Nicole Satterfield, the oldest child of Doug and Donna Satterfield, died from issues related to mesothelioma. Caused exclusively by asbestos exposure, the source of that exposure is the contentious issue discussed in the interview below. For 33 years, beginning in 1973, Doug Satterfield was employed by Alcoa. It was considered to be a "catch" of a job in that the pay and benefits were above average for the area. Unfortunately for the Satterfields, the amount of asbestos was also above average.
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World News Australia - Asbestos widows share stories of loss

Rated Aug 31 • 1 review • health, lung cancer, asbestos, mesothelioma • sbs.com.au

A unique photographic series captures the grief and hardship endured by widows who lost their partners to asbestos related diseases.
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Schering's Weird New Nuvaring Ad: "Don't You Have to ......

Rated Aug 26 • 1 review • drugs, fda, big pharma, drug safety, nuvaring • bnet.com

EXCERPT: Schering-Plough's new TV commercial for Nuvaring employs a weird strategy -- it features a group of women explaining the old Nuvaring commercial as it plays in the background (video below).

As Adfreak points out:

It's sad when you have to run a commercial talking about how great your previous commercial was, only to clarify the earlier ad because obviously no one could figure out what you were selling.
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Reporter reflects on James Hardie scandal - ABC News...

Rated Aug 21 • 1 review • health, law, asbestos, mesothelioma • abc.net.au

EXCERPT: The New South Wales Supreme Court yesterday handed down penalties on James Hardie's former executives and directors.

Back in 2003, I wrote a story for ABC Radio News on the sale of all asbestos products being finally banned, after the use of asbestos in the workplace was banned in 2001.

The story quoted the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission saying that there was no known safe level of exposure to asbestos.

That was a fact James Hardie, one of Australia's largest manufacturers of asbestos building products, had known for many decades.

It a sad testament to its success at selling those products that Australia has one of the highest rates in the world of the asbestos-caused lung cancer, mesothelioma .

The number of people diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases will not peak until 2020; by then there will be 13,000 cases of mesothelioma and up to 40,000 cases of asbestos-related lung cancer.
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Spontaneous femoral shaft fracture after long-term...

Rated Aug 20 • 1 review • medicine, prescription drugs, drug safety, fosamax, drug injury • oxfordjournals.org

EXCERPT: A number of cases have been reported from other countries describing a pattern of atraumatic mid-femoral fractures in women on long-term alendronate therapy. We present a case of an atraumatic femoral shaft fracture in an elderly woman on long-term alendronate therapy admitted to a UK Hospital.
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$Spontaneous femoral shaft fracture after long-term alendronate -- Ali and Jay 38 (5): 625 -- Age and Ageing$
Hormonal contraception and risk of venous...

Rated Aug 14 • 1 review • pharmacology, yaz, yasmin, drug injury, ocella • bmj.com

Conclusion: The risk of venous thrombosis in current users of combined oral contraceptives decreases with duration of use and decreasing oestrogen dose. For the same dose of oestrogen and the same length of use, oral contraceptives with desogestrel, gestodene, or drospirenone were associated with a significantly higher risk of venous thrombosis than oral contraceptives with levonorgestrel. Progestogen only pills and hormone releasing intrauterine devices were not associated with any increased risk of venous thrombosis.
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Is NuvaRing Dangerous? | Mother Jones

Rated Jun 30 • 2 reviews • drugs, women, drug safety, nuvaring, drug injury • motherjones.com

Use of the NuvaRing (a vaginal birth control device / ring) can cause serious blood clot-related side effects such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), strokes, and heart attacks.
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