Women who take certain over-the-counter painkillers during the early stages of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to infants with rare birth defects, a new study suggests.The study, which has been published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, shows that women who took painkillers such as naproxen (the drug used in Aleve) or aspirin during pregnancy were three times as likely to have children with birth defects such as amniotic band syndrome (a condition that leads to clubfoot) or anaphthalmiaand microphothalmia (conditions where children are born with abnormally small eyeballs, or no eyeballs at all), Reuters reported.Additionally, the study found that the use of these painkillers early in one’s pregnancy increased the risk of spina bifida by 60 percent, and that the risk of developing a cleft palate increased from 30 to 80 percent.In the study, interviews were conducted with 15,000 women who had given birth to babies with birth defects and 5,500 women who had given birth to babies without defects. The interviews included questions about any painkillers they ingested during the first stage of their pregnancies.According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, anophthalmia and microphthalmia occurs in one out of every 5,300 U.S. births. Amniotic band syndrome is even rarer, occurring in approximately one out of every in 10,000 births.Co-author of the study Martha Werler noted that although the results do not prove that painkillers are the sole cause of these rare birth defects, they are a warning sign. She also recommended that further research be conducted.If you or someone you know has a child who has been harmed by painkillers, you may be entitled to compensation. Contact Sokolove Law for a free legal consultation.Birth Defects
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Contractor Fined For Illegal Asbestos Disposal
Contractor Fined For Illegal Asbestos Disposal
A New Hampshire contractor has been ordered to pay $18,000 for illegally removing and disposing of asbestos.According to the Associated Press, Walter Jensen is the owner of Summer and Winter Construction was fined for illegally dumping asbestos that he removed from two projects. The work was done in 2005 and 2006.The judge who made the ruling fined Jensen 10 times more than what Jensen made from the jobs because he had been the subject of two previous violations. The contractor was also found to have lied about the asbestos to the disposal company.If you or a loved one has been harmed by asbestos exposure, contact Sokolove Law for a free legal consultation and to learn about your options.Asbestos
Indian Woman Kicked Off Flight Due To Cerebral Palsy
Indian Woman Kicked Off Flight Due To Cerebral Palsy
A 42-year-old Indian woman who was born with born with cerebral palsy and now works at Kolkata’s Indian Institute for Cerebral Palsy is considering legal action after being kicked off of a flight because of her birth injury.Jeeja Ghosh had checked into the airport and received assistance so she could properly board her Spice Jet flight from Kolkata to Goa. However, after getting into her seat she said that she learned that the pilot had ordered her to be removed from the flight because of her condition.The decision violated the existing Civil Aviation Rules that were set by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.In addition to demanding an apology from the pilot and airline, Ghosh is also considering taking legal action against the company.”How am I different? I am doing the same amount of work as anybody else. I am exactly like anyone else,” she said.” I may have some difficulties. Nothing more than that.”Living with a disability such as cerebral palsy can lead to a number of unique circumstances that can complicate one’s life. If you or a loved one have a child who was born with a birth injury such as cerebral palsy, contact Sokolove Law today to learn more about pursuing a birth injury lawsuit.Cerebral Palsy
Advertising Asbestos on 1950s Television
Advertising Asbestos on 1950s Television
Despite the fact that society has observed negative health effects associated with asbestos all the way back to the days of the Roman Empire, the toxic substance is still in use today. In the United States, up to 3,000 cases of the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma are diagnosed each year, while approximately 5 million pounds of asbestos is processed. At Ban Asbestos Now, we are working to change that, and we’re always looking for examples of how asbestos became such a major part of our society.The fact is, despite the grim realities associated with asbestos use, products that used asbestos fibers were touted as miracles of modern science and safe and effective alternatives to more traditional products. For example, the video above, “According to Plan,” produced by a defunct asbestos product advocacy group called the Asbestos Cement Products Association, advertizes the benefits of materials containing asbestos.The film, which proclaims the benefits of home siding made with asbestos cement, focuses on how the product would provide many advantages to home owners. Brimming with 1950s-era charm, the video persuades potential customers to use asbestos products, which are “safer and more durable” when compared to their traditional counterparts. The narrator even notes that the mixture of asbestos fibers and cement, “Was given every conceivable test.” The asbestos cement resisted fire, was waterproof and remained strong under extreme weather conditions.The commercial is almost funny, until we consider how dangerous asbestos truly is. Although asbestos cement shingles may have seemed like the perfect home siding solution to many in the 1950s, the dangers associated with asbestos were already beginning to affect those who worked with the product. The first recorded death from asbestosis occurred in 1924, and widespread use of the substance as part of war efforts throughout the 20th century has led to a rise in associated complications. It wasn’t until the 1970s that asbestos use began to drop off. Even today, despite all we know, the substance remains legal in the United States.Without a full ban, there is always a risk of exposure to those who come in contact with it. Join us in our fight to ban asbestos now.Asbestos
Asbestos Products Found at Second California Water Pump
Asbestos Products Found at Second California Water Pump
Only days after asbestos products were found at a California water pumping plant that provides water to Los Angeles, a test have uncovered asbestos products at yet another pumping plant in the state as well.Bakersfield ABC-affiliate KERO-TV reported that testing that had been spurred by the initial asbestos discovery revealed that similar products were also found at the nearby John R. Teerink Wheeler Ridge Pumping Plant.Workers at the Teerink plant have been evacuated from the structure, which has also been sea sealed off to prevent any asbestos fibers from releasing into the air, and a cleanup process is already underway.Asbestos testing at the Teerink plant was prompted after routine maintenance at the Ira J. Chrisman Wind Gap Pumping Plant uncovered asbestos products that may have been disturbed. Similarly, it was immediately shut down so asbestos abatement procedures could get underway.If you or a loved one have been exposed to loose asbestos fibers and developed an illness such as mesothelioma because of it, contact Sokolove Law today to learn more about possibly pursuing an asbestos lawsuit.Asbestos
What is an Annuity?
What Is An Annuity?
The basic definition of an annuity describes a financial instrument or arrangement that provides regular, periodic payments. In the U.S., an annuity contract is often used to create a guaranteed income stream over a fixed period of time. Annuity payments may be made until a certain date or they may extend until the death of the person named in the contract.Annuity contracts are defined by federal law in the tax code but are regulated at the state level. In most cases, annuities are issued by insurance companies, either as a life insurance product or as part of a large settlement for an injury claim. While there are numerous types of annuities, most annuities in the U.S. today fall into one of two broad categories.An annuity with a period certain is one in which annuity payments are received by the annuitant for a certain number of years, (i.e., a “certain period”). Most large insurance settlements, as well as lottery winnings, are funded for a period certain.A life annuity is an insurance product in which a preset periodic payout amount is paid out until the death of the annuitant. Typically, the annuitant purchases the annuity and pays into it while still working; upon retirement, the annuity then provides a steady stream of periodic payments to the annuitant. These payments are structured to last for the rest of the annuitant’s life. A life annuity may also have a guaranteed period of payments to provide a minimum return to the recipient.Today, most people receiving structured settlement annuity payments enjoy tax-free income due to favorable monetary and tax policy on the part of the federal government. However, some may be eligible to pursue a strategy of selling their annuities to a factoring company in order to get an annuity cash out to help with changing financial needs. A structured settlement firm may be able to assist in such circumstances.Annuity
Contractor Fined For Illegal Asbestos Disposal
Contractor Fined For Illegal Asbestos Disposal
A New Hampshire contractor has been ordered to pay $18,000 for illegally removing and disposing of asbestos.According to the Associated Press, Walter Jensen is the owner of Summer and Winter Construction was fined for illegally dumping asbestos that he removed from two projects. The work was done in 2005 and 2006.The judge who made the ruling fined Jensen 10 times more than what Jensen made from the jobs because he had been the subject of two previous violations. The contractor was also found to have lied about the asbestos to the disposal company.If you or a loved one has been harmed by asbestos exposure, contact Sokolove Law for a free legal consultation and to learn about your options.Asbestos
Pradaxa Lawsuit News
Pradaxa Lawsuit
: By far the most important modifiable risk factor for spontaneous ICH is HTN.Primary hypertensive hemorrhage results from the rupture of small penetrating arteries originating in the anterior, middle (i.e., lenticulostriate), and posterior cerebral (i.e., thalamostriate) arteries and the pons (i.e., paramedian perforators). HTN causes vessel rupture at or near the bifurcation of affected vessels, where degeneration of components of the arterial wall (media and smooth muscle) are identified. The annual risk of recurrent hemorrhage is 2% without antihypertensive treatment. A hematoma incites local edema and neuronal damage in the adjacent brain parenchyma. This edema typically increases in size over an interval as long as 3 weeks following the initial bleeding, with the greatest growth rate over the first 2 days. Thrombin within the hematoma plays a central role in promoting perihematomal edema. Hemoglobin and its products, heme and iron, are potent mitochondrial toxins, thereby increasing cell death.Pradaxa Lawsuit: Hemorrhage may dissect from the brain parenchyma into the adjacent ventricular space, carrying a poor prognosis, Hemorrhage may also be isolated to the intraventricular space,and lesions can expand substantially by rupturing into the ventricular system. Ventricular involvement may cause obstructive hydrocephalus and can result in long-term cognitive impairment.
Occupational Exposure to Asbestos in VA Power Plant
When repairs were needed on an old nuclear power plant in Surry, VA, contract workers were called in to do the work. Hundreds of workers were hired including electricians, pipe fitters, general laborers and other contractors from eight different companies. When a dozen workers were caught in a cloud of asbestos after cutting some old pipe, the workers reported the incident. The exposed workers report that they were told all asbestos-containing pipes would be clearly labeled, but they were not labeled at all.A state investigation ensued and six of the eight companies involved in the plant restoration work were cleared of blame. The company that was in charge of labeling the asbestos-containing pipes and products and that was tasked with safely removing asbestos from the building was Hopewell-based Quality Specialties Inc. and they were fined $4,900 for not labeling the pipes. The state has targeted one other company – Dominion Power, the electricity supplier for VA and NC and the owner of the power plant — to take partial blame for the incident but have not released details of their investigation.Asbestos was used when the plant was first built to insulate pipes and other parts of the plant from excessive heat. Asbestos has been widely used for such purposes for the past century, but less so in the past 30 years or so since asbestos exposure was definitively tied tomesothelioma and other types of cancer. Asbestos is only carcinogenic when it is airborne and can be breathed into the lungs. Although any amount of asbestos exposure carries risk, mesothelioma victims are usually people who were once exposed to asbestos at a high concentration for an extended period of time.A spokesperson for the power plant, Richard Zuercher, attempted to assuage the concern of the exposed workers and their families by asserting there was no danger to them. “Most of the asbestos has been removed and replaced with asbestos-free material, including the area where the workers were,” says Zuercher. “There is some equipment with asbestos at the plant, but it has all been abated.”Zuercher’s statement was proved false, however, after the State Department of Labor and Industry tested the environment and found asbestos fibers on the clothes of the 12 exposed workers as well as in three of the worker trailers.Exactly how much asbestos the workers were exposed to is indeterminable because the plant’s owner, Dominion Power, did not have air sampling equipment on site at the time of the incident.Asbestos
New Science Part Three Mesothelioma Genetic Link
It’s long been suspected that a person’s genetics play a role in determining susceptibility to the development of mesotheliomafollowing exposure to asbestos fibers. The suspicion caused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund research that would discover this genetic link. As of August, 2011, the specific gene mutation was not only found, but identified to also trigger other types of cancer.The culprit is the gene, BAP1. Not a very creative name, is it? Why not name genes after Greek gods and goddesses rather than assigning them boring codes made up of capital letters and numbers? The former would better match the mystical powers genes have to determine so much about a person from appearance to temperament to health and beyond. Anyway, the research showed that people with a mutation on the BAP1 gene are more susceptible to developing both mesothelioma cancer as well as melanoma cancer of the eye.The upshot is that people who are exposed to asbestos are far more likely to develop mesothelioma if they have this mutation to BAP1. The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and led by scientists at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center in Honolulu, and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The study results were published in Nature Genetics and reported the outcome of tests within two U.S. families with a high incidence of mesothelioma and other cancers linked with BAP1 mutations.The study’s co-leader,Dr. Joseph Testa, notes that “it appears likely that other genes, in addition to BAP1, will be found to be associated with elevated risk of mesothelioma.” In the study, every person in the two families who developed mesothelioma or melanoma of the eye did have mutations of the BAP1 gene. The research team went on to look at 26 additional people diagnosed with mesothelioma but with no family history of the disease and found that 25 percent of them also had the BAP1 mutations.Dr. Michele Carbone, study co-leader and director of the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, says of the results: “Identifying people at greatest risk for developing mesothelioma, especially those exposed to dangerous levels of asbestos worldwide, is a task made easier by virtue of this discovery.”This concludes our series on the newest science concerning mesothelioma. These findings are exciting and inspiring of hope that future diagnostic and treatment practices will help people with mesothelioma live longer, healthier lives. Hope is the message we choose to focus on this week following National Mesothelioma Awareness Week.Mesothelioma