French CJD scandal medics sued
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Seven go on trial over the deaths of more than 100 children from the human form of mad cow disease.
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An Oklahoma lawsuit filed on Thursday charges that Merck &amp; Co. misled patients about the safety of its arthritis drug. The case may signal many more such lawsuits against the drugmaker
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A policeman who called in sick to appear as an extra in a French cop film has received a reprimand after being found out, fellow officers said.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Prosecutors have charged two doctors and two ambulance workers with murder for letting patients die or killing them outright in order to collect kickbacks from funeral homes, officials said Wednesday.
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Two former sales representatives for Amgen Inc. are suing the biotech company, alleging it pushed its sales force to search doctor's confidential medical records for potential patients to boost sales of a drug used to treat psoriasis.
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Scores of Shanghai parents are to sue a biotech firm suspected of concealing the fact that their children's umbilical cord blood, believed to be a likely cure for future blood diseases, was tainted, state media said on Thursday.
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A group of French lawyers files a torture suit against Col Gaddafi on behalf of a Palestinian doctor formerly jailed in Libya.
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TORONTO -- Law firms in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary filed more class-action lawsuits yesterday against Merck and Co. Inc., the makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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A MAN with variant CJD is no longer terminally ill after being treated with an experimental drug following a legal battle. Schoolboy soccer star Jonathan Simms, 20 - diagnosed with the human
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A 20-year-old Belfast man appears to be winning his battle against variant CJD after undergoing experimental treatment over the past two years.
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N has sued   Boston Scientific Corp.BSX.N and Abbott Laboratories Inc.   ABT.N, seeking at least $5.5 billion in damages related to   J&J's failed bid for medical device maker Guidant Corp.
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A French lawyer acting for 100 small  shareholders said on Monday he had sued French Societe Generale   over the way it unbundled billions of dollars in  allegedly fraudulent share deals earlier this week.
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A Nebraska couple sued state health officials Thursday, arguing their rights were violated when their newborn baby was seized by sheriff's deputies so a mandatory blood test could be performed.
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Of the 105 riders tested at the Tour de France, 60 had medical certificates allowing them to take banned substances, creating suspicion of foul play.
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DaimlerChrysler AG  (DCXGn.DE) has been hit with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by a paraplegic who says the automaker's heated car seats caused him a severe burn injury.
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The widower of a woman who died at Brigham &amp; Women's Hospital while delivering her first child is suing the hospital, alleging that doctors accidentally damaged at least two arteries during the emergency delivery, then disregarded signs that she was bleeding to death.
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People who carry out executions can sue others who disclose their identities, under a new law that followed reports that a doctor who attended Missouri executions had been sued for malpractice more than 20 times.