Help a great cause - Brantwood Children's Home - while enjoying a round of golf at the beautiful Wynlakes Golf Country Club!

Beasley Allen will hold its Blood Drive Thursday, September 18. The bloodmobile will arrive at 8:30 and stay until 4 pm.

Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more, and have a photo ID. All donors will receive a recognition item and cholesterol screening. If you would like to donate, please contact me for appointment times.

The Montgomery police department's "Cops for Christmas" Golf Tournament has benefited over five hundred children in the past four year. All proceeds go directly to underprivileged children and assist in making Christmas wishes come true. A Banquet is also held at the end of each year where all children attend and are treated to a Christmas Dinner and all gifts are presented. This program has made a tremendous impact on the Montgomery community. Each participant should know that they are doing their part in putting smiles on children's faces and to make the Holiday Season special.

100 Black Men of America|Clear Channel Radio|Moca Magazine presnet the 2nd Annual River Region Expo Saturday August 13, 2008.

David P. Sloane, speaking on behalf of the AARP as Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Advocacy, voiced the agency's support for Alabama's pending Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation against 72 pharmaceutical companies.

Navan Ward, an attorney with Montgomery, Ala.-based firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., recently accepted a national First Place Award of Achievement from the American Bar Association on behalf of the Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers Section (YLS). The award was presented in recognition of an outstanding program developed by the bar's YLS to address the shortage of minorities in the legal profession and increase diversity in the bar.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is investigating a possible link between the drug Vytorin, manufactured by Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough, and an increased risk of a variety of cancers. An FDA MedWatch Alert released Thursday, Aug. 21, informed healthcare professionals that the agency is investigating a report from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) trial of a possible association between the use of Vytorin and a potentially increased incidence of cancer.

Attorneys who take on the pharmaceutical industry as a voice for consumers injured by medications found an unlikely ally this week, in doctors. Noting that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is often "overwhelmed" by drug safety problems ranging from serious side effects to unsafe manufacturing facilities, editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said patients benefit from information uncovered by attorneys during liability investigations, according to an Associated Press report released Friday.

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Actavis Totowa announced a voluntary recall of more than 65 generic drug products manufactured at its Little Falls, New Jersey, facility. The recall follows an inspection conducted by the Food & Drug Administration earlier this year, which revealed that operations at the New Jersey facility did not meet FDA standards.

A complaint was filed on behalf of Sue Gilmore Tatum and Ken Tatum Tuesday afternoon in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Alabama. The complaint alleges defendant Patrick Cumbie negligently ran the Runabout he was operating into plaintiff Sue Gilmore Tatum and into the pontoon boat on which she was a passenger.