Posted by Amber Stanford June 12, 2012 – More reports were made against the controversial new blood-thinner, Pradaxa, than any other drug on the market last year. And according to the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices’ (ISMP), Pradaxa also topped the list for reports of deaths, hemorrhage, acute renal failure, […]
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June 12, 2012 – A ten-year study recently concluded that thiazolidinedione drugs, such as Avandia and Actos, may increase the risk of macular edema, a serious eye condition that can lead to blindness. It noted that the incidence of macular edema in studied patients on these drugs was more than […]
June 11, 2012 – Friend and former litigation support clerk of The Nations Law Firm, James Cespedes, has just graduated from the SMU Dedman School of Law! We couldn’t be more proud of James and his great achievements. James obtained his high school diploma in 2005 from the Kinkaid School […]
Posted by Shelley Blas A federal health official’s ruling brings vindication to hundreds, or possibly thousands, of people suffering from cancer said to be caused by massive dust clouds and debris from the September 11, 2001 attacks. This decision, by Dr. John Howard, Director of the National Institute for Occupational […]
June 6, 2012 – Johnson and Johnson has announced that its Ethicon unit will end sales of most of its vaginal mesh implants which are the subject of hundreds of lawsuits claiming the implants are defective and dangerous. It is expected that it will take several months for the products […]
June 1, 2012 – American Association for Justice Trial Magazine June 2012 Drugs & Devices: How Big Pharma Puts Patients at Risk “Bad Actos” by Howard L. Nations and John M. Restaino “The safety of Actos, an oral diabetes drug that increases the body’s sensitivity to insulin, has been increasingly […]
By Buck Daniels May 31, 2012 – In a linked study … Azoulay and colleagues found that more than two years daily exposure to pioglitazone doubled the risk of bladder cancer. Read the full PDF article on further evidence of bladder cancer here.
By Shelley Blas May 31, 2012 – A motion was filed late last night in the product liability case involving Pradaxa. The petition seeks transfer of nearly a dozen pending cases, and all future claims, to a centralized docket in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. […]
By Amber Stanford May 26, 2012 – The FDA has recently recognized a new study released in the issue May 17, 2012 of the New England Journal of Medicine that reports a small increase in cardiovascular deaths, and in the risk of death from any cause, in persons treated with a […]
May 19, 2012 – At the 2012 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Howard Nations was inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. Each year, The Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame recognizes and honors a few remarkable trial lawyers who have left an indelible mark on the American legal tradition […]
By Shelley Blas May 18, 2012 – A new study, published earlier this week in the British Medical Journal shows that NuvaRing carries a higher risk of blood clots than combined oral contraceptives (COCs) based on oestrogens and progestins. Women who used the vaginal ring or transdermal patches had around […]
By Amber Stanford May 17, 2012 – This week, a new federal motor vehicle standard has been proposed by US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the first time ever. It would require all large vehicles to equip an electronic stability control (ESC) system. Research shows this […]
By Amber Stanford May 16, 2012 – The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released the first part of a three phase research project last week. This first phase was aimed at locating the most frequent locations for large truck rollovers in the last decade. More than 50,000 crash records from […]
By Amber Stanford May 15, 2012 – As the oil and gas industry gains momentum, there are an increasing number of industrial trucks on the highways. Truck drivers suffering from sleep deprivation is a well-known danger on the road. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, insufficient sleep […]
May 14, 2012 – On May 10, 2012, Mayor Annise Parker honored 14 Houston area volunteers for their exceptional public service at The Volunteer Houston Mayor’s Award luncheon. Melanie Lawson of KTRK-TV 13, Greg Hurst of KHOU-TV 11, Khambrel Marshall of KPRC-LOCAL 2 hosted the program. “We take great pride […]
May 12, 2012 – Last week, Stephen “Buck” Daniel was officially sworn into the Georgia Supreme Court. Buck graduated Cum Laude from the University of Georgia in 2007 and subsequently received his Juris Doctorate from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2011. In November of 2011, Buck […]
By Amber Stanford May 10, 2012 – In the case of a tragic or severely disabling vehicular crash, should the person sending the text be as responsible for the wreck as the person reading it? In 2009, Kyle Best was involved in a tragic car accident that resulted in David […]
May 1, 2012 – Join us in celebrating national Law Day where we commemorate the rule of law and its contributions to the freedoms we as Americans enjoy every day. Its origins date back to 1957 where former President of the American Bar Association, Charles S. Rhyne, envisioned a day […]
April 27, 2012 – If anyone has not been concerned or does not believe that we have been losing our freedoms and rights in this country please watch this latest attack. All but three members of Congress voted in favor of HB 347 and since the airing of the video […]
By Cindy L. Nations On April 27th, 2011 – the Howard L. Nations Law Firm Administrator Andrea Schmauss received the Houston Young Lawyers Association “Liberty Bell Award” at a luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. The purpose of the award is to recognize one outstanding non-lawyer in Texas […]
By Andrea Schmauss April 14, 2012 – Houston, Texas attorney Howard Nations, the immediate past president of The National Trial Lawyers, is taking on the manufacturer of Pradaxa, a blood thinning drug which the FDA is investigating for possibly causing serious, possibly fatal bleeding. Doctors prescribe Pradaxa to help reduce […]