A Bradford County, Pennsylvania woman is blaming a natural gas driller for contaminating her ground water well and making her sick.  She has filed suit against Chesapeake Appalachia, LLP,  a firm with hydraulic fracturing operations throughout the Marcellus shale, as well as Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Nomac Drilling LLC . According to Judy Armstrong’s lawsuit, [...]

The oil is not gone.  That’s what Greenpeace scientists who just finished an expedition in the Gulf of Mexico have to say about government claims that most of oil from the BP spill has evaporated, dissipated, been dispersed or been burned and skimmed. The 3-months aboard the vessel Arctic Sunrise was spent looking for oil [...]

A recent study finds that teen cell phone use, including texting, is way up.  In fact, according to the Pew Research Foundation, the frequency of use of texting among all teens has now overtaken the frequency of every other common form of interaction with their friends. That probably won’t surprise many parents of teens.  But [...]

Looks like GlaxoSmithKline has another Avandia headache on its hands – in the form of a Justice Department subpoena.  According to the drugmaker’s third quarter earnings report, the feds are looking into the marketing and development of the controversial diabetes drug.  No word yet though on whether that investigation is criminal or civil in nature. [...]

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is worried that doctors might make the wrong decision when it comes to choosing a heartburn drug for people taking the anti-blood clotting medication, Plavix. Over the past couple years, a series of studies have indicated that Prilosec, a proton pump inhibitor,  might make it difficult to metabolize the [...]

An urgent recall has been issued for some bathtub toys that pose a serious laceration hazard. According to the Consumer Products Safety Administration (CPSC), the toys – called Bathtub Subs – have been associated with 19 incidents of lacerations to boys’ genital area. One of the incidents required medical attention. The Bathtub Subs were made [...]

A Long Island man says his DePuy ASR XL Acetabular Hip Replacement System has left him in significant pain.   Last week, the law firm of Parker Waichman Alonso filed suit against DePuy Orthopaedics on behalf of the Nassau County man and his wife. The DePuy hip lawsuit alleges that as a result of the implant, Rocco [...]

There’s hope today that a global settlement of Chinese drywall lawsuits could eventually become a reality.  A settlement has been reached in the massive Chinese drywall litigation in New Orleans by which a pilot remediation program will be launched. Under the pilot program, Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., a major Chinese drywall manufacturer, as well as [...]

A new fracking study is raising alarms about the impact such gas drilling operations could have on Pennsylvania waterways.  The National Academy of Sciences, which conducted the research, points out that the findings from the study are only preliminary, and that it hopes to convince the state to allocate funds for a more comprehensive hydraulic [...]

A push is on to have more than 700 New York City schools tested for PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls.   The call follows a pilot PCB testing program that involved three schools and found the dangerous chemicals in caulk used in the buildings. The city agreed to the pilot testing program after the threat of a lawsuit. [...]