Houston Personal Injury Blog - Denena Points, PC

Texas Alert: Medical Tests May Not Be Able to Detect Fungal Meningitis

Some medical authorities have suggested that the 14,000 or more patients at risk for developing the deadly fungal meningitis strain should be tested. Testing is a wise precaution. But those patients whose tests come back negative might still be at risk according to federal health officials from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. […]

Minor Highway 290 accident ends with double fatal drunk driving crash

Drunken driving claims many innocent victims each year in the Houston area. Statistics made Harris County for many years the drunken driving capital of the nation, and a tragic Saturday morning crash reveals why. Around 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, two vehicles collided in a minor fender bender crash onHighway 290 by 34th Street. A Ford Explorer […]

How EMS responds to an industrial machine entrapment accident

Industrial machine entrapment accidents often lead to severe injuries or fatalities. Responding to the scene of an accident involving a worker trapped in heavy machine presents unique and difficult challenges to rescue personnel. Sometimes the accident scene can be unstable and dangerous. And frequently, the only way to rescue a trapped worker is to sever the […]

Who’s paying the price when bad medical devices harm good people?

If you have medical insurance, when you hip implant, heart defibrillator, or other medical device goes wrong or becomes subject to a recall, your insurer will generally pay all or most of the costs of repair, replacement, or ongoing medical therapies needed to deal with the defect. The past decade has seen a large number […]

Another Houston hit and run driver and another death on our streets

The Houston injury attorneys at Denena & Points report that Houston police are searching for another hit and run driver. This one struck and killed a man and left him lying in the center of Club Creek Drive by Green Fork on Saturday night. Houston police responded to a call from the scene around 11 […]

All about U.S. compounding pharmacy production of unique medications

The Houston pharmaceutical injury attorneys at Denena & Points remark that compounding pharmacies play a strong role in the U.S. medication market, producing roughly 10% of the medications used in patients. Often, these specialized compounding pharmacies take manufactured pharmaceutical products and re-compound them into different individualized doses. Or they add a bulk ingredient to the […]

On the common practice of prescribing off-label medications in the U.S.

The Houston drug injury lawyers at Denena & Points realize that you might not be aware that up to about one third of the medications prescribed to patients in the United States are thought to be “off-label.” This means that patients’ physicians have prescribed the medications for uses or conditions for which the FDA has […]

U.S. DOT report examines effective use of IIDs to curb drunken driving

The Houston crash injury lawyers at Denena & Points note that a 2010 report released by the U.S. NHTSA, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation took an in-depth look at the use of IIDs (Ignition Interlock Devices) as a means to curb drinking and driving. The report is called Assessing the Feasibility of Vehicle-Based […]

Why you need a drug recall lawyer if you’ve been injured by medication

Every year, the U.S. market sees additional new drugs to combat pain, illness, and conditions you sometimes have never heard of before. And some of these drugs reach the market without sufficient testing to determine whether they are safe and effective for their intended use. Indeed, prescription drugs now cause more deaths in the U.S. each […]