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• China FDA Removes ReNu from Stores

  Joe Saunders | May 08, 2006 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration has removed all US manufactured ReNu with MoistureLoc products from store shelves. Only about 2% of the ReNu product is made in the US. The majority of the product is made domestically. Bausch & Lomb has tried to assuage Chinese consumers that since the bulk of the ReNu they use is produced in China, it's safe for use.

• Fusarium Fungus Cases Continue to Rise

  Joe Saunders | May 07, 2006 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Fusarium Keratitis, the rare but dangerous fungus, continues to rise among contact lens wearers. However, the source of the fungus remains a mystery. The proportion of patients who said they used MoistureLoc has since held steady at around 50 percent to 60 percent of the 102 cases confirmed so far, the CDC said.

• More Tears for Bausch & Lomb

  Joe Saunders | May 04, 2006 6:59 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  In a company press statement issued in the middle of the night, Bausch & Lomb now reveal that additional cases of fusarium keratitis have been linked to the company's ReNu products. According to a Market Watch report, "In an overnight release, Bausch & Lomb said "that a review by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had found reported cases of fungal keratitis among contact-lens...

• Bausch & Lomb Says Initial Fusarium Findings Require More Investigation

  Joe Saunders | May 03, 2006 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  In reaction to the CDC's initial report on the fusarium fungus linked to Bausch & Lomb's ReNu, the company has stated that the report requires further investigation. Now, we don't know if this public relations obfuscation or the data reported thus far really requires further review. We do know that this fungus can cause blindness and/or serious eye damage if it's not treated in a timely fashion.

• Public Citizen Urges FDA to ban Tequin

  Joe Saunders | May 02, 2006 6:08 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  The consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, has issued a call to the FDA to ban the antibiotic Tequin because of its purported links to blood sugar abnormalities. According to the press release the drug, made by Bristol Myers Squibb, has been associated with both low and high blood sugar. It has been on the market since 1999.

• ReNu Abogado

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Si ud. ha estado usando la solución ReNu para sus lentes de contacto y ha experimentado una herida de los ojos, posiblemente podría recibir compensación por su herida. Es muy importante que ud. consulte con un oftalmólogo inmediatamente. El doctor tiene que tomar una muestra de sus ojos para determinar si tiene el hongo fusarium keratitis. Favor de llamar a nuestra oficina para una...

• Ketek Raising Eyebrows

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Ketek, a respiratory infection drug manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis and approved by the FDA in 2004, has been associated with severe liver damage. It's not the first time the drug has caused controversy. The doctor who treated the most patients in the study, Maria "Anne" Kirkman Campbell, is in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding Aventis and others. An indictment says Dr....

• Doctors to Receive Guidelines on How to Handle Defective Defibrillators

  Joe Saunders | April 29, 2006 8:31 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  A group that represents doctors, The Heart Rhythm Society, will publish guidelines to help doctors determine how to respond when a heart defibrillator malfunctions. The publication comes in response to problems experienced by cardiac defibrillator manufacturers,Guidant (recently acquired by Boston Scientific Corp.) and Medtronic. The guidelines call on device manufacturers to develop and use...

• Bausch & Lomb Not Forthcoming on ReNu Products

  Joe Saunders | April 29, 2006 8:20 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Bausch & Lomb, the maker of ReNu contact lens solution, didn't bother to notify the FDA or the American public about infections Hong Kong officials found in the product in November 2005. This is important because the product sold in Hong Kong is manufactured at the same Carolina plant that supplies the contact lens solution to stores in the United States.

• Joseph H. Saunders, Attorney at Law

  Staff Writer | January 28, 2006 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Joseph H. Saunders: born in Montgomery, Alabama, January 31, 1953. Admitted to the California State Bar in 1981 and the Florida State Bar in 1982. Also admitted to practice in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida and the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.EducationLone Mountain College (BS in music 1975); University of San Francisco (JD 1981); University of...