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...risks associated with Lipobay long before withdrawing the drug, the company could lose its insurance cover on judgments that could cost the company billions. Bayer claims that improper prescriptions caused the condition, in which muscle cells disintegrate and release toxic chemicals into the blood, sometimes leading to liver and kidney failure. It also insists that each case is unique and will have to be dealt with individually. But Munich attorney Michael Witti has already joined Chicago lawyer Kenneth Moll and others in petitioning a U.S. court to let them file a class action lawsuit on behalf of 6,800 people...
This study is the first to assess the role of dietary acrylamide in humans. No increased risk of large bowel, bladder or kidney cancer was found to be linked to the subtance...
DIED. MAURICE PIALAT, 77, acclaimed French film director; of kidney failure; in Paris. In dramas such as Police, Loulou and The Mouth Agape, the auteur painted uncompromising, unforgettable portraits of desolation. His characters--cops, priests, kids on the run, deathbed parents--were sacred monsters in strangled agony...
...Iraq itself, medical experts claim that cancer rates have increased ten-fold since 1991, and a 1998 conference in Baghdad highlighted the increasing number of Iraqi babies who have been born with neurological disorders, kidney problems and missing limbs. Even amongst Gulf War veterans in the United States there has been an increased incidence of deformed babies—many with no arms, just hands attached to his shoulders. Yet out of over 135,000 veterans of the Gulf War who are considered disabled by U.S. veterans’ associations only 33 of them are currently being monitored for radiation...
...took three months to prepare them and a full three years to clean them up. Rokke described the “thousands and thousands” of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean-up team have subsequently fallen ill or are dying of cancer. Rokke’s conclusion? “If you can’t clean it up, don?...