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Judge Burlison, who oversaw the case of 22 women suing Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for ovarian cancer from baby powder, ruled against a motion by J&J to overturn the verdict.

Today Reuters released a large in-depth article about baby powder, Johnson & Johnson, and the hidden risks of cancer.

Uber and Lyft are lauded as making streets safer by keeping drunk drivers off the road. In fact, Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) released a report in 2015 that said, “Uber is having a meaningful and positive impact on mindsets and the rate of drunk driving.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease found in persons with a history of repetitive brain trauma. Over the past few years, CTE has garnered increased attention due to high profile, professional athletes being diagnosed with the disease. The 2015 film Concussion also increased public awareness

With the return of app-based electric scooter rentals to San Francisco and the proliferation of electric scooters and bikes across the Bay Area and throughout the country, officials are reporting increasing numbers of accidents involving electric bikes and scooters.

The e-cigarette industry adamantly promotes vaping as a safe alternative to smoking regular cigarettes. Not true, according to a study published in the American Journal of Physiology, Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. The study used mice to compare the relative damage to lungs when exposed to regular cigarettes, e-juice with and without nicotine, and e-juice with both nicotine and flavor-adding chemicals. The study found significant signs of increasing lung damage in mice exposed to e-juice, especially those where e-juice was flavored.

Please join Levin Simes e-cig and vape lawyer Angela Nehmens at Mass Torts Made Perfect. On Friday October 5th at 12:35pm, Angela will run the e-cigarette breakout session and present on the current status of e-cigarette and vape mod litigation.

October 2nd, 2018: Juul Labs, the manufacturer of the popular Juul vape, had their offices raided by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a surprise inspection. The FDA seized thousands of pages of documents related to marketing of Juul products. Juul Labs faces accusations and lawsuits that they illegally marketed their products to minors.

The research article “Grave Fraudulence in Medical Device Research: A Narrative Review of the PIN Seeding Study for the Pinnacle Hip System” was published in December 2017 in the journal Accountability in Research.