Season's Greetings: October 2019

Ever since Johnson & Johnson disclosed this month that a government test had turned up asbestos in its Baby Powder, the company has attacked the validity of the result.
On Tuesday, for example, J&J announced that other labs it hired ultimately found no asbestos in samples from the bottle tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or from the same production lot.
In challenging the FDA’s finding, however, the healthcare giant is casting doubt on one of its own experts.
The person that runs the private Maryland lab that found asbestos in Baby Powder, under a contract with the FDA, is a paid expert witness for J&J.
Andreas Saldivar, laboratory director of AMA Analytical Services Inc., has served as a litigation expert on several occasions for J&J since 2017 in its defense against plaintiffs’ claims that asbestos in talc caused their cancers. Read More

A Dartmouth school bus was involved in an accident earlier this morning when a deer went through the windshield, according to the Dartmouth Police Department.
The deer struck School Bus No. 18 near 490 Chase Road at around 7:15 a.m. after being struck by another vehicle.
Police said that five people ⁠— the bus driver and four students ⁠— reported minor injuries.
The deer did not survive.
The children were taken to St. Luke’s hospital in New Bedford as a “precautionary measure,” according to the Dartmouth Schools.
Superintendent of Schools Bonny Gifford praised the response by emergency personnel, Tremblay’s Bus Company, the hospital staff at St. Luke’s, and the school district’s administrative, maintenance, and nursing staff.
“The support we got from everybody involved...was incredible,” she said. “It was obviously a pretty big shock. The driver of the bus, his arm or hand is messed up, but he was in pretty good shape considering, and his first concern was for our students.”
Gifford went on to say that the driver’s response was “remarkable.”
“He was able to function immediately and get the kids off the bus,” she said.
https://www.newbedfordguide.com/five-injured-after-deer
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Pharmaceutical giant Merck’s political influence is now reaching beyond the CDC and federal government and moving into state legislatures as several states have introduced bills to mandate Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine for children. The HPV vaccine, which only applies to sexually active people, is not currently part of the CDC vaccine schedule, therefore separate legislation is needed to compel children to receive it. What is withheld from the public is the fact that Merck is fighting fraud cases in U.S. courts and multiple other lawsuits around the world concerning the Gardasil vaccine, as the vaccine continues to kill and injure, primarily teenage girls. Learn More

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