FDA Tries to Limit Drug Suits in State Courts
From the Washington Post
Excerpt: People who believe they were injured by drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts, the agency said yesterday in a formal policy statement. ...
... "It's a typical abuse by the Bush Administration -- take a regulation to improve the information that doctors and patients receive about prescription drugs and turn it into a protection against liability for the drug industry," he said in a statement.

The Bush administration has intervened in a number of state liability cases against drug and medical device manufacturers with friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the companies. Yesterday's policy statement was just a way to make the same points on a broad and general basis, Gottlieb said. More

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More deaths may be linked to Ground Zero cleanup
From the New York Daily News via Kentucky.com
Excerpt: ...But the New York Daily News has learned that an additional 22 men, mostly in their 30s and 40s, have died from causes their families say were accelerated by the toxic mix of chemicals that lodged in their bodies as they searched for survivors or participated in the cleanup after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Among them are private employees, a sanitation worker, a correction officer, a utility worker, transit workers, firefighters and police officers. They died from black lung and cancers of the esophagus and pancreas.
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