Wal-Mart and Claire’s have pulled Chinese-made children’s jewelry suspected to have been made with cadmium.

The decision to two of American’s largest retailers of costume jewelry comes on the heels of an investigation by the Associated Press which found some products contained dangerous levels of the toxic metal.

Lab tests conducted for the AP on 103 pieces of low-priced children’s jewelry on sale in the U.S. found 12 items with elevated levels of cadmium, which can hinder brain development in young children, according to recent research, and is known to cause cancer.

Twelve items had cadmium levels of at least 10 percent by weight. One piece had 91 percent, and others contained more than 80%. The government has no restrictions on cadmium in jewelry.

The findings of cadmium contamination come on the heels of a string of product quality scandals in 2007 that caused Congress in 2008 to ban toys and other kids products that contain lead — another dangerous and once commonly used material. Cadmium is even more harmful.

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Two lawsuits filed by West Virginia families claim the antidepressant Paxil was responsible for their children’s birth defects.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in December 2005 that it was requiring Glaxo to add warnings of birth defects to the drug’s prescribing information. This decision was fueled by two studies that showed that women who took Paxil during the first three months of pregnancy were about one and a half to two times as likely to have a baby with a heart defect than women who took other antidepressants or women in the general population.

The lawsuits claim that Glaxo knew that Paxil was associated with birth defects prior to the 2005 label change and that the heart birth defects that are present in their children wre the result of their mother’s Paxil use during pregnancy.

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The women involved in the lawsuits claim that they took Paxil because Glaxo promoted the drug as a safe alternative to pregnant women. However, when their children were born, they suffered from congenital injuries and disorders and birth defects, as well as heart defects and developmental delays.

Also, a class action lawsuit has been settled that will reimburse health plans that paid for children and young adults who receive Paxil. While the drug is not approved for use in children, doctors often prescribe the drug when they see fit. While Paxil isn’t necessarily a defective drug, several studies have shown that Paxil and similar antidepressants cause suicides in teenagers.

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If you or a member of your family were prescribed Paxil and suffered adverse side effects, you should contact an experienced defective drug attorney for professional insight.

Though not much is known about the causes of autism, angry families in the United States are blaming childhood vaccines.

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In 2004, the Institute of Medicine promised there was no credible evidence showing that the preservative thimerosal contained in some vaccines caused autism, but that has not stopped nearly 5,000 lawsuits alleging the contrary.

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It is a general contention among all the pending lawsuits that the vaccines containing thimerosal were the cause of autism in the children—they do, however, disagree on exactly how.
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Some of the birth trauma attorneys handling these cases say that only the thimerosal in the vaccines caused the neurological disorders. Others argue that the injections also contained a form of mercury that overexcited certain brain cells. To settle this discrepancy, the Office of Special Masters of the claims court has instructed plaintiffs to carry out three tests for each of the theories.

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After the Sunset ipod Thimerosal has been removed from standard children’s vaccines, but remains in flu vaccines that are packaged as multiple doses. Unfortunately, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says single dose flu vaccines are available only in limited numbers for the time being. Until more are produced for and distributed to the children in need of them, the threat of adverse thimerosal side effects remains.

If you are among the families battling autism and believe a loved one has been harmed by a one of these childhood vaccines, it important to contact an experienced birth trauma attorney and defective drugs attorney for professional insight.

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