More Pain from Accutane: Center for Justice & Democracy has written about Accutane in its recent study on women and unsafe drugs, but in New Jersey, a “jury has ordered drugmaker Roche to pay nearly $13 million to three patients who claim they developed a chronic bowel disorder because of the company's acne drug Accutane.”
Hospital Hazard: Tabitha Mullings walked into a Brooklyn emergency room “suffering from what she thought was just a kidney stone, but a medical nightmare left her partly blind and a quadruple amputee.” Reportedly, doctors “failed to diagnose an infection that has literally eaten her alive.”
Prison Outbreaks: “Guards took the stand Thursday in the landmark trial over crowding inside California's prisons and described numerous examples of negligent health care, including inmates using communal showers with open wounds and suicidal prisoners kept for hours inside cages the size of telephone booths.” Prison guard Gary Benson testified that he “routinely sees inmates in communal showers with "bleeding, oozing" staph infections, and that he “contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection in July 2006,” as a result of his exposure.
Cruel and Unusual Birth: A former inmate of the Pocatello (ID) Women's Correctional Center is suing for allegedly being “denied proper health care” which resulted in her “giving birth on a concrete ramp after being left in a holding room for 10 hours.” The suit also alleges that “the birth occurred while she was being moved in a wheelchair, and that her son, Taylor, ‘fell from her body and the wheelchair, landing on the back of his head on the concrete ramp.’"
LA Cops Not Above the Law: The city of Los Angeles has agreed to “pay nearly $13 million to immigration protesters and bystanders injured by Los Angeles police officers during a melee at MacArthur Park last year.” Reportedly, many protesters and bystanders “ranging from children to senior citizens” filed lawsuits, alleging that “LAPD's elite Metro Division used batons and fired rubber bullets into the largely peaceful crowd,” and that “hundreds of demonstrators and journalists and 18 officers suffered injuries,” including one woman who suffered a miscarriage.
