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New Orleans, deeply impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, just posted their tourism numbers are back to the level they were at before the storm. The last thing the resilient residents needed was another catastrophe so soon in the rebuilding stage. The resurrected city is now …
Oil Spill Threatens the Identity of New Orleans
New Orleans, deeply impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, just posted their tourism numbers are back to the level they were at before the storm. The last thing the resilient residents needed was another catastrophe so soon in the rebuilding stage. The resurrected city is now …FDA Doctor’s Studies of Diabetes Drug May Prove Drug is Dangerous
Studies of Avandia, a popular diabetes drug, will be reviewed in order for today’s panel to recommend whether sales of the drug should be stopped or restricted. Avandia, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, helps Diabetes patients to gain better control of their blood sugar levels. Millions of prescri…Grassely Promoting “The Value of Whistleblowers” by writing to Drug Companies
Senator Chuck Grassely, a Republican of Iowa, has recently asked 16 drug companies how they treat whistleblowers within the companies who have filed complaints under the False Claims Act. The companies include Pfizer Inc., AstraZeneca Plc, and Eli Lilly & Co. Senator Grassely prides himself on bei…Whistleblowers Silent on Deepwater Horizon
Despite having a gold-standard corporate Code of Conduct policy in place, no one on the Deepwater Horizon spoke up in time. BP's policy emphasized each employee's responsibility to inform management of health or safety violations. Even though people on the rig knew of violations weeks before the exp…Workers Are Speaking Out About The Gulf Oil Spill
Bobby Maxwell, a former employee of the Minerals Management Services, a federal organization in charge of safety inspections on over 3,500 oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, says that years of a "culture of corruption" lead to the disaster. Long before the recent disaster, he noticed inspectors repeat…More Articles...
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