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Poligrip Lawsuit Lawyer Injury

…The article reported on four patients suffering from neuropathy and other neurological symptoms typical of zinc poisoning and copper depletion. It was determined that excess use of denture cream could have been responsible for their symptoms.

According to the account in The New York Times, excess use of denture cream caused a 64-year-old woman to experience problems with movement and balance. In addition, her feet were numb, and she had lost the ability to feel hot, cold or a light touch from her knees to her feet. The cause of her condition was a mystery until her doctor realized she was using large amounts of denture cream.

The patient was put through a raft of diagnostic tests, including an MRI. Cancer, a B12 deficiency, and even West Nile virus were ruled out as possible causes. But according to The New York Times, blood tests for these conditions yielded an important clue: Levels of copper and zinc in the woman’s blood were seriously off. In fact, she had almost no copper, and zinc was at twice the…

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A lawsuit has been filed against Clearspring and a number of its partners, accusing them of spying on kids’ Internet use with Flash cookies that respawn after deletion.

…From there, the defendants allegedly collected personally identifying information about their users in order to sell the data, which includes video viewing habits, gender, age, race, education level, geographic location, sexual preference, what the users like to read, home address, phone number, health condition, and more, says the lawsuit. The parents behind the lawsuit cited a recent study out of UC California-Berkeley about Flash Cookies and Privacy, which found that certain Flash cookies would respawn when deleted without any notice to or consent from the user.

The complaint is very similar to one filed against Clearspring competitor Quantcast in July, whose Flash cookies are used by MTV, ESPN, Hulu, MySpace, NBC, ABC, and Scribd. That suit also cited the UC Berkeley study, accusing Quantcast of following a “pattern of covert online surveillance.” Quantcast stopped its zombie cookie behavior after Berkeley’s study was published in August of 2009, but the users represented in the lawsuit still felt that…

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