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Charges were filed late last month against a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman at an apartment complex on Dunlap Ave. on Sunday December 19th. Jamal Jones, 24, was charged with criminal negligent homicide, accused in the killing of Felicia Jefferson, 28.  Houston Police and HFD emergency personnel responded to a shooting call at the Dunlap address. When they arrived they found Ms. Jefferson in a bedroom of her parents’ apartment with gunshot wounds to the head. She…

Public groups have been critical of a delay by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that stalled a  recall of the drugs Darvon and Darvocet, reports say. Darvon and Darvocet, which are made with the key ingredient propoxyphene, may be linked to heart problems. Critics say the number of patients injured by the delay by the FDA could number in the thousands, reports say. Propoxyphene is a painkiller. The FDA announced in November of last year that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc. had…

Reports say hundreds of personal injury attorneys are beginning preliminary preparations toward litigation against makers of Darvon and Darvocet, or Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc.  The drugs, which were manufactured for opoid pain relief, reportedly have a reaction in many users, including life-threatening arrhythmic cardiac events. The product Propoxyphene was first sold as Darvon in the late ’50s, with a newer medicine, Darvocet, a combination drug made with propoxyphene and acetaminophen, now offered as an alternative. But late last year the U.S….

A phony press release at General Mills Inc. which could have caused a stock decline with reports that President Obama had ordered a big investigation of the company after several food product recalls. The investigation was fabricated, say reports.   Although the exact goal still isn’t clear, reports say, the general idea behind the report would be to manipulate the stock of the company. The headline reportedly read: “Obama Orders Full Investigation of General Mills Supply Chain Following Food Recalls.”…

Darvon, and the related drug Darvocet, may have been found to increase the risk of heart attacks and bone fractures in elderly arthritis patients, reports from a new study finds. Reports say that painkillers like Oxycontin, Darvon and Darvocet increase the risk of death by 87-percent, as compared to drugs such as Ibuprofen. The reported study, in which some 12000 people participated, says that those patients treated with narcotic painkillers known as opiods were linked to a 68 percent increase…