In a controversial 1999 decision the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York held that Hobart Corp. was liable for failing to put a warning label on a meat grinder in which an employee lost his hand.

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In an editorial earlier this year in The Lancet, a medical journal, Topol called for the FDA to put a black box label--its most serious warning--on Vioxx.

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"We spend a lot of money creating a sexy, classy image for a singer, and then we put her on a BET show, and the set looks cheap, " says one label executive.

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Rearranging the small type on the typical prescription label, Ms. Adler put the information in a logical order, giving prominence to the things that people most need to know at the moment they are reaching for their medicine.

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Someone is making millions on black label treatments for MS. Many patients refuse to put their body in harms way by taking a chance on a drug like Gilenya.

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