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Government Initiative: Leg Pain May Be Warning Sign For Blood Clots

Posted on October 05, 2008
Too many Americans are dying from dangerous blood clots that can masquerade as leg pain, says a new government initiative aimed at getting both patients and their physicians to recognize the emergency in time, since it is extremely difficult to diagnose...

FDA Bans 28 Drugs Made By Indian Drug Manufacturer

Posted on September 30, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is halting the importation of twenty-eight drugs made by Ranbaxy Laboratories, a giant Indian generic drugmaker, due to deficiencies in manufacturing at two of the company's plants. A physician with the FDA, however, said there was no evidence that drugs coming from the plants in question could harm consumers; the ban was more of a preventive action...

Government Warns Of Potential Fire Hazard In Recalled Ford Vehicles

Posted on September 29, 2008
The government is asking owners of five million recalled Ford vehicles to bring their automobile to a local dealership to have a cruise control switch system repaired since the problem is tied to engine fires. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said about twelve million automobiles were affected and five million have still not been fixed...

Government Says Quigley and Pfizer Made Secret Deal Over Asbestos

Posted on September 29, 2008
Pfizer Inc's bankrupt Quigley unit cannot reorganize as planned because the drug manufacturer arranged the bankruptcy to protect itself from asbestos liability. Quigley filed for bankruptcy after the heat shields it made for years were found to contain asbestos...

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Soccer Goal Net Recalled Due To Strangulation Hazard

Posted on September 25, 2008
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with manufacturer Regent Sports Corporation, has issued a voluntary recall for about 190,000 models of MacGregor Folding Soccer Goals and Mitre Folding Soccer Goals. These goals were sold for $26 at Wal-Mart, Ace Hardware and other sports and toy stores from May 2002 to May 2008...

Tennessee Supreme Court Rules On Alcoa Asbestos Suit

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Alcoa Inc. can be sued for the asbestos-related death of a former employee's daughter. The court decided the company had a duty to prevent others from being exposed to the contaminated clothes of its employees...

General Motors' Agrees To Compensate For Faulty Saturn Transmissions

Posted on September 18, 2008
General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay about $90 million or more to tens of thousands of motorists in all fifty states for expenses they acquired due to faulty transmissions in more than 90,000 Saturn economy cars. If agreed to by a Sacramento federal judge, the agreement would settle a class-action lawsuit targeting particular models of four-cylinder Saturn Vues and Ion, which were equipped with "Vti" transmissions...

Research Shows Hospitals Failing Colon Cancer Quality Check

Posted on September 17, 2008
According to researchers, many United States hospitals are failing to check enough lymph nodes after surgery to see if the cancer has spread, a key quality benchmark for the care of colon cancer patients. Treating colon cancer involves surgery to remove the part of the colon affected with cancer, along with some healthy tissue on either side of the cancer to help ensure nothing is left behind...

Chemical In Baby Bottles and Soda Cans May Harm Kids

Posted on September 17, 2008
A new federal report has shown exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to make the plastic in baby bottles and to line soda cans, may cause harm to fetuses and children; further research needs to be conducted to determine whether it is safe...

FDA To Revamp Standards For Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine For Kids

Posted on September 10, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to revise its standards for over-the-counter cold and cough medications for kids after rising concern that the medications are not effective and could be unsafe. This step could lead to the medications being completely removed from the market...

FDA Concerned Over Ovarian Cancer Test OvaSure

Posted on September 09, 2008
OvaSure, a new blood test aimed at discovering ovarian cancer at an early, treatable stage is stirring up hope among women and doctors. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), however, is skeptical of the test's efficacy. The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists is skeptical of the new test as well...

BMW Issues Recall On 150,000 Vehicles

Posted on September 09, 2008
BMW is recalling about 150,000 vehicles in North America in order to fix a possible defect that could keep the front passenger airbag from opening in a crash. This voluntary recall involves the front passenger airbag seat sensor mat in certain 2004-2006 model year automobiles...

Study Shows High Medical Costs Without Insurance Leaving Americans In Trouble

Posted on September 09, 2008
According to a recent study, Americans are struggling to pay medical bills and are gathering medical debt at an increasing rate. Incomes are not able to sustain the growing costs of health-care. The study also noted that as gas and food prices are rising and the real estate market is falling, the federal minimum wage is three dollars an hour lower, in real terms, than it was forty years ago...

Utah Hospitals Saw Nearly 60 "Never Events" in 2006

Posted on September 02, 2008
Last December, a patient was admitted to Uintah Basin Medical Center's emergency room, complaining he was weak, tired and out of breath. He was found to be severely anemic and needed a blood transfusion. While the man's blood type was O+, staff at the hospital gave him A+ blood and he was dead in seven hours...

Court System Integral To Guaranteeing Drug Safety

Posted on September 02, 2008
Editors from the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the nation's most influential medical journals, are giving the Supreme Court unsolicited legal advice about a major case, Wyeth v. Levine, that could have major implications for litigation over potentially dangerous drugs, such as Vioxx...

Hospital Death Rates for Top Three Conditions Unveiled

Posted on September 01, 2008
The government's Hospital Care website has made it easier to find your chance for survival. For the first time, Americans are allowed to see specific death rates for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia from individual hospitals around the country...

More States Are Not Billing Patients For Medical Errors

Posted on August 28, 2008
Hospitals in almost fifty percent of states in the nation now say they will not bill patients for the worst kinds of medical mistakes. These mistakes are often called "never mistakes" since these events should never happen, such as operating on the wrong person, operating on the wrong body part, or giving a patient the wrong type of blood...

Drugs Manufactured By Indian Company Win Approval Even During Government Investigation

Posted on August 27, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved eighteen generic drugs manufactured by Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. even as the United States was investigating whether or not the company fabricated data in order to get their drugs approved. Many are calling for the agency to freeze the drug applications until the investigation has reached a conclusion...

Pharmaceutical Billionaire Asks For Drug Industry To Reform Safety Procedures

Posted on August 26, 2008
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire pharmaceutical executive from American Pharmaceutical Partners (APP), is calling for the pharmaceutical industry to reform how it polices its products. He argues these companies must take a larger role in insuring the safety of their products since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is so overwhelmed...

Ford Facing Lawsuit In "Limited Edition" Dispute

Posted on August 21, 2008
Ford Motor Co. is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by customers who purchased the "limited edition" 2007 Roush Stage 3 BlackJack, after it was discovered the model was not so "limited" after all. Ford advertised that only one hundred of these models would be made, charging consumers the premium price of $59,000...

Increased Scrutiny For Bus Industry Due To Recent Crashes

Posted on August 20, 2008
Texas legislators and safety experts have asked for tougher enforcement of motor carrier regulations after an illegal bus crashed in North Texas, killing seventeen Vietnamese Catholics from Houston. The bus, which was owned and operated by Angel de la Torre, was illegal because the operator was barred twice from traveling outside of Texas under two different company names...

Study Shows Connection Between Agent Orange And Prostate Cancer In Vietnam Vets

Posted on August 18, 2008
A new study has found Vietnam veterans exposed to defoliant Agent Orange have a considerably greater risk of developing prostate cancer, especially the most aggressive form of the disease. These findings are the first to show a relationship between the now-banned herbicide and this form of cancer...

Prostate Cancer Screening Being Questioned In Recent Studies

Posted on August 17, 2008
A federal task force has concluded that due to so much unnecessary anxiety, surgery and complications, the blood test, or prostate-specific antigen test (PSA), millions of men undergo each year to check for prostate cancer should be stopped for older men...

Punitive Damages Reaffirmed By Tennessee Supreme Court Against DaimlerChrysler

Posted on August 13, 2008
The Tennessee Supreme Court has reaffirmed a lower trial court's decision awarding a couple $13 million in punitive damages in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the former DaimlerChrysler AG. The initial trial ruling awarded the couple $98 million in punitive damages...

New Study Examines Medication Error Deaths

Posted on August 12, 2008
A new study found mixing street drugs and alcohol with prescription medications has attributed to a fivefold increase in the number of deaths ascribed to medical errors since the 1980s. In 2004, 17% of deaths due to medication errors were caused by the combination of a person taking medications at home with alcohol or a street drug, sometimes both...

Congress Votes To Reauthorize CPSC - A Victory for American Consumers

Posted on August 07, 2008
Both the United States Senate and House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that provides for the reauthorization of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The bill includes many safety protections, including ATV (all-terrain vehicle) standards, whistleblower protection for employees of manufacturers and distributors, a ban on phthalates in children's toys, and other mandatory toy standards...

Truck and Bus Drivers, Though Medically Unfit, Are Still On Roads

Posted on August 06, 2008
The Government Accountability Office, a government watchdog, has found about 4%, or 563,000 U.S. truck and bus driving license holders are receiving full federal disability benefits while still holding their commercial driver's license. Drivers' disabilities include hearing, vision, and seizure problems...

Maple Bats Growing Threat At Baseball Parks

Posted on August 05, 2008
Foul balls are not the only things fans need to be worried about at baseball parks. Flying shards of wood from the broken, maple wood bats of players have made baseball outings even more dangerous for spectators. Susan Rhodes learned this the hard way after having her jaw broken by a fragment of a Dodger player's bat after it came careening into the stands...

New Study Shows ID Tags In Hospitals Could Be Hazardous

Posted on July 29, 2008
Tiny devices known as radio frequency tags, which allow drivers to drive through tolls without stopping and are attached to clothes to make shoplifting a lot harder are now being used frequently in hospitals. Some, for example, are being used to monitor blood quality...

Recent Study Ranks Insurance Companies, Warns Consumers

Posted on July 28, 2008
The American Association of Justice (AAJ) has created a list of ten insurance companies that are bad for consumers. Allstate was deemed the worst insurance company with Unum, AIG, State Farm, and Conseco being criticized as well. These rankings show how greedy insurance companies are becoming when they refuse to pay claims, employ hardball strategies against their own clients, reward top executives with high salaries, and continuously raise premiums in order to get more money for the business...

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