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		<title>Pfizer Liabilities Continue to Grow</title>
		<link>http://www.filutowskilaw.com/2010/05/pfizer-liabilities-continue-to-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Robbins Geller Rudman &#38; Dowd LLP today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of shareholders of Pfizer Inc. Pfizer is a pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription medicines for humans and animals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Law Protects Employees From Discriminatory Genetic Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Genetic Information NonDiscrimination Act (GINA) will take effect this weekend.  It shields employees from genetic testing requested by employers and group health insurers.  Historically, employers and their health insurers have used genetic testing as a means of &#8220;weeding out&#8221; those with &#8220;bad genes,&#8221; whether by disputing coverage or cleverly drafting policies to exclude coverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>74 Lawsuits Allege Serious Injuries From Bayer Drug&#8217;s Yaz &amp; Yasmin Birth Control Pills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bayer, the U.S.&#8217;s leading manufacturer of birth control pills, sold Yaz and Yasmin to millions of women, some of whom have experienced heart attacks, blood clots and strokes.  These women have filed individual lawsuits around the nation, claiming that the pills caused such harm.
While blood clots are a known side-effect of oral contraceptives, the severity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menaflex Knee Patch FDA-Approval Second-Guessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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The Food &#38; Drug Administration (FDA) is questioning the approval of Menaflex, a patch for the knee manufactured by ReGen Biologics.   Menaflex is marketed to help repair a torn meniscus.  Unfortunately, there are reports that the patch is ineffective, necessitating a second surgery.



The Menaflex patch is surgically installed at the lateral or medial meniscus to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advances in Treating Fibromyalgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some clients suffer from fibromyalgia, starting before they retained me to represent them on their personal injury claim (car accident, slip and fall, on-the-job injury, etc).  Fibromyalgia, with its unknown origin, is prevalent among men and women later in life.  Symptoms consist of varying degrees of body and joint pain and tenderness.  Fibromyalgia continues to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food &amp; Drug Administration Seeks Public Opinion &#8211; Online Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.filutowskilaw.com/2009/09/food-drug-administration-seeks-public-input-on-regulating-marketing-of-approved-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a release today on National Public Radio (NPR), the FDA announces that it seeks public input on how to regulate company&#8217;s marketing and online advertising of FDA approved products.
A lack of regulation has led to false, deceptive and misleading ads that pose a potential harm to consumers.  Earlier this year, a host of pharmaceutical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance Bad Faith &#8211; recover $$ from your insurer for dropping you</title>
		<link>http://www.filutowskilaw.com/2009/09/insurance-bad-faith-recover-from-your-insurer-for-dropping-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An insurance company owes its insured a duty of acting in good faith and fair dealing.  In other words, the insurer must act reasonably in processing and paying your insurance claims.  This contractual relation is why you pay your insurer steep monthly insurance premiums &#8211; to be covered in times of need.
In South Carolina, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insured &amp; Bankrupt &#8211; NYTimes article</title>
		<link>http://www.filutowskilaw.com/2009/09/insured-bankrupt-nytimes-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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According to Harvard Medical School Professor, Dr. David Himmelstein, 62% of the 1.4-1.5 million bankruptcy filings in the U.S. are due to burdensome medical bills.   3/4 of the 62% had medical insurance.
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		<title>New Federal Law Safeguards Patient Privacy In Health Care Offices Going Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the green movement fully underway and technology continually evolving each month, health care providers are systematically changing how they create, maintain and store patient information by going paperless.   With any transition or upgrade in technology, comes ease, efficiency and some glitches.  Fortunately, federal law was passed that further protects patient privacy in offices that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Health Cooperative: more affordable than national health care?</title>
		<link>http://www.filutowskilaw.com/2009/08/group-health-cooperative-where-does-it-stand-on-health-care-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Obama&#8217;s proposed national, public health care plan has received such fierce opposition, that it has now turned to private cooperatives, like Group Health, to maintain competitive rates against private insurers.
Group Health Cooperative, like other cooperatives, offer its members both insurance and health care services.  This system is better known as a health maintenance organization [...]]]></description>
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