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• Vioxx class action rejected by top N.J. court

  Richard Schulte | September 07, 2007 1:46 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  New Jersey's Supreme Court yesterday rejected a class-action lawsuit against painkiller Vioxx maid by Merck & Co. The ruling is a huge legal victory for the drug maker, which faces nearly 27,000 individual lawsuits from people claiming Vioxx, once a widely used arthritis treatment, caused heart attacks and strokes.The state's highest court, reversing two lower-court decisions, ruled that a...

• Drug stents worse on heart attack victims

  Richard Schulte | September 04, 2007 1:17 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Heart attack victims given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to die six months to two years later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, research showed on Tuesday.Drug stents remain highly controversial in the cardiology community and fears about late stent thrombosis have led to a slump in sales in the past year.Eckhart...

• Annette Brown takes on City Hall

  Richard Schulte | August 22, 2007 1:01 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  City of Dayton Employee Annette Brown has a college degree, an MBA, and had worked in finance for 6 years. Until recently she was a dedicated civil servant. Now the City has placed her on administrative leave and she faces a hearing on August 27th to terminate her employment because the City of Dayton claims she is in violation of the city charter requiring that she "reside" and "live" within...

• Motorist plumets off unfinished bridge into Ohio River

  Richard Schulte | July 31, 2007 1:01 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Meigs County authorities say emergency crews have recovered the car and body of a motorist who drove off an unfinished Ohio River bridge Sunday night.Police say 19-year-old Gerald Baker of Coolville drove onto the completed onramp and plowed through a five-thousand-pound concrete barrier at the end of the bridge that's still under construction.It will span the river from Pomeroy, Ohio, to West...

• Ohio Firefighter Falls to His Death

  Richard Schulte | July 25, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Firefighter John Trainer, 38 of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, fell to his death last night (July 24, 2007) while re-organizing a fire hose on the top of a fire truck at the Mechanicsburg station. Last night, Mr. Trainer responded to a house fire which required the use of the truck's fire hose. When back at the station, Mr. Trainer climbed on the top of the fire truck in order to re-organize the hose...

• Car Accident kills OU student

  Richard Schulte | July 17, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Ohio University student was killed Saturday night in a pedestrian accident when he was struck by an SUV and thrown into a river. Witness indicated that the SUV skipped onto the sidewalk and struck the victom as he was crossing the hocking river bridge. Witnesses were unaware that a pedestrian had been struck, Gray said. The bridge has lights, but not directly in the area of the accident, he...

• Man in Car Accident had been Shot

  Chrissie Cole | July 08, 2007 1:14 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Police arrived at Valley Street, Wednesday morning, after receiving a report of a car accident and found the driver had crashed his vehicle because he'd been shot.Dayton Police Department said the man, 38, of Dayton, had been shot behind 1228 Valley Street just a few minutes after midnight on Wednesday. He attempted to drive away but his vehicle crashed through a fence at Bickmore Avenue and...

• Avandia Linked to Increased Heart Attack Risk

  Chrissie Cole | May 21, 2007 12:38 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  The FDA has issued a safety warning relating to the drug rosiglitazone maleate, marketed under the brand name Avandia. Safety data pooled from controlled clinical trials shows a significant increase in the risk of heart attack and heart related deaths in patients that use the drug Avandia, to help control type-2 diabetes.Other published data from long-term clinical trials of Avandia provide...

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  Staff Writer | April 03, 2007 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

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• P&G Recalls Sinex Nasal Spray

  Chrissie Cole | November 21, 2009 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsDayton, OH

  Three lots -- about 120,000 bottles -- of Vicks Sinex nasal spray has been voluntarily recalled by Proctor & Gamble in three countries after bacteria B. cepacia was detected during routine...