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On the Subject of Auto Accidents

Posted on September 04, 2008
An accident can be a frightening experience. In a best case situation no one is injured and there is minimal damage to either car. Sometimes, however, an accident will result in property damage or injuries. Worse still are the potentially serious injuries, unbelievable property damage, and potential fatalities...

Dallas Car Crash Kills 2

Posted on September 03, 2008
An accident in Dallas Monday night took the lives of a newlywed couple. Uriel Perez Palacios, 22, or Dallas has already been involved in two police chases and four outstanding drug and DWI warrants under his belt prior to Monday's crash. Why wasn't this guy already locked up? Palacios was pulled over around 2 a...

Deadly Bassinets Result in Two Deaths

Posted on September 02, 2008
Simplicity Bassinets have been implicated in the death of two children, which has resulted in the removal of over 900,000 products. The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that six retailers, including Wal-Mart and Toys R Us, have agreed to stop selling the Simplicity 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 close sleeper models of bassinets...

Semi Truck Crashes into McDonald's

Posted on August 28, 2008
Wow. Watch out where you go to lunch! An 18-wheeler crashed into a McDonald's in Grand Prairie yesterday and injured two employees. Workers are still cleaning up the mess caused by the wreck. The truck driver, 43-year-old Adrian Vasquez of Arlington , was not even in the cab of the truck when it rolled passed a car and slammed into a truck, finally coming to a rest halfway inside a McDonald's restaurant...

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Elderly Still Being Treated With Antipsychotic Drugs

Posted on August 27, 2008
A few weeks ago we wrote about the fact that stroke and death have both been linked to the use of antipsychotics in treating the elderly. Alarmingly, researchers are finding that atypical antipsychotics are actually increasingly being used to treat the elderly for dementia related symptoms...

Federal Government Cracking Down on Bus Companies

Posted on August 26, 2008
Federal officials have been paying particularly close attention to bus companies after the Sherman bus crash earlier this month. The Houston Chronicle reports that around 300 bus companies are currently operating in Texas. A representative for the Texas Department of Transportation told the newspaper that two out of every five Texas charter bus companies have been ordered to cease operations in the last two years...

New Study Reveals What We Already Knew About Big Tobacco

Posted on August 25, 2008
The US National Cancer Institute has released a study that reveals just how powerful the mass media is in swaying public opinion. "This is the first report to conclude that tobacco advertising and promotion increases tobacco use," said Melanie Wakefield, senior scientific editor of the report...

Vioxx to begin Settlements

Posted on August 22, 2008
For those who claim Vioxx was responsible for their heart attacks, settlement packages are in the mail. Many of you may remember that Vioxx was removed from the market after it was linked to heart failure and a subsequent settlement ($4.85 billion) between Merck and Co...

Man Dies in North Carolina Hospital

Posted on August 21, 2008
A 50-year old patient died in North Carolina after workers left him in a chair for 22 hours. Nobody helped him to the bathroom or even fed him, they just left him there. This case is alarmingly similar to the case of Esman Green, a woman who was videotaped as she shook on the floor for an hour before anyone came to check on her...

Why Are Nursing Home Conditions so Poor?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Nursing homes are responsible for some of the worst living conditions and abuse in the country. We have reported on several stories where residents have been put through some terrible conditions at these facilities. Take, for example, the story of 54-year-old resident Karen Preston who left the home where she was being cared for, stumbled into the woods and fell repeatedly and then finally sat down next to a tree...

Another Sherman Bus Accident Lawsuit Filed

Posted on August 19, 2008
Another lawsuit has been filed over the Sherman bus crash that killed 17 people. The complaint was filed by the estate of Cham Nguyen and alleges that negligence on the part of the owner and driver of the bus caused her death. The accident was the nation's deadliest since 2005...

Have You Been Injured by Trayslol?

Posted on August 18, 2008
Trayslol, a medicine manufactured by Bayer which also goes by the name aprotinin, has been widely used since the 1990s. It was used as a medicine given during heart bypass surgery to reduce bleeding and the need for blood transfusions. Most patients didn't even know they were given the drug...

Side Effects of Antibiotics?

Posted on August 15, 2008
Did you know that the side effects of antibiotics are responsible for over 140,000 trips the ER every year? The Centers for Disease Control have released their findings for a new study on antibiotic reactions in the U.S. According to a survey they conducted, a sample of 63 hospitals recorded more than 6,600 emergency visits that were the direct result of bad reactions to antibiotics...

Hospitals Adopting Non-Bill Standards for Medical Errors

Posted on August 13, 2008
Hospitals around the country have come together to say they will no longer bill patients for their medical mistakes. Tennessee is one state out of 23 that has approved the non-payment policies for mistakes, with at least three more expected to follow suit...

Federal Government Takes Action Against Bus Company

Posted on August 12, 2008
A second bus owned by the company involved in last week's deadly bus crash has been ordered out of service. Inspectors from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the bus should be out of commission. The bus was decommissioned from Carthage, Missouri, where the same religious festival victims of Friday's victims were to attend...

More News about the Sherman Bus Accident

Posted on August 11, 2008
The bus company that owned the vehicle involved in last Friday's crash in Sherman that killed 17 people was found to be "grossly deficient" in its vehicle maintenance according to federal authorities. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration declared the Houston-based company an "imminent hazard" to the public safety and has ordered the owner to cease all operations...

Charter Bus Crash Toll Now Up to 14

Posted on August 08, 2008
The death toll of the Sherman bus disaster is now up to 14 people. For those who aren't up to speed on what has happened: A bus crashed in Sherman early this morning around 12:45 p.m. It skidded across a guard rail and then slid off of U.S. 75 on the other side of a bridge near a creek...

Nursing Home Evictions: How Can They Do That??

Posted on August 07, 2008
Nursing homes all over the country are evicting residents. According to the Wall Street Journal, complaints about these discharge practices have doubled over the past decade, which makes it the second biggest category of nursing home abuse complaints...

Does the Pill Increase the Risk of Cervical Cancer?

Posted on August 04, 2008
I'm not sure just how "common" this knowledge is, but I thought I'd post what I'd found and let you all be the judge. There has been much talk about recent studies that find that women who use birth control pills have an increased risk of developing cervical cancer...

State Closes Day Care After Boy Wanders off to Hooters

Posted on July 31, 2008
A North Texas daycare center has been shut down by the state this week. The event that precipitated this was quite astonishing to say the least. A five year old boy somehow managed to walk out of an open door there, crossing a busy street, and was discovered later at an unlikely location: A Hooters restaurant...

Some Statistics Regarding Hot Car Deaths

Posted on July 30, 2008
Last week I blogged about two tragic cases here in North Texas where infants died after being left in hot cars. At one point, I cited some research done at San Francisco state regarding these deaths. Afterwards, I was lucky enough to be put in touch with a consultant and researcher by the name of Jan Null, to tell me a little more about why these infants are dying...

Yet Another Child Dies After Being Left in Hot Car

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Texas heat and someone's negligence have taken another life in north Texas this week. This comes less than a week after a similar event occurred in Oak Cliff. A toddler died on Sunday after being left inside a hot care for over an hour. Emergency personnel were called around 3 p...

FDA Reaches Settlement with Advanced Bionics LLC

Posted on July 24, 2008
The FDA has announced that a settlement has been reached with a California device manufacturer and its president over alleged federal law violations. The violations involved the failure to notify the FDA of a change of outside supplier or vender. This could have exposed patients to unnecessary health risks, such as device failure and surgery...

Cipro Warning An Overreaction?

Posted on July 23, 2008
I read an interesting article in The Brownsville Herald that says physicians aren't worrying so much about the proposed label warning and still plan on prescribing them. They say that if used both properly and sparingly, Cipro and other fluoroquinolones are safe for most patients...

Child Left in Hot Car Dies in Oak Cliff

Posted on July 22, 2008
A toddler passed away on Monday afternoon after being left inside a hot car in Oak Cliff. Police are investigating two different daycare centers that may have been involved in this incident. Parents are reporting that the child went to Tyne Gifted Achievers...

Fatal Accidents the Result of Truckers' Poor Health

Posted on July 21, 2008
A new report was just released from the Associated Press today that reveals a growing problem among one of our nations key industries. Tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the US are driving our highways with commercial licenses even though they qualify for full federal disability payments...

Serevent Linked To Side Effects

Posted on July 18, 2008
Research is showing that patients with chronic asthma who take the medication Serevent on a daily basis are at an increased risk for serious adverse effects. A 12-week review of 32 clinical trials that involved 62,630 patients suggest that the collaborative use of inhaled corticosteroids with Serevent may help reduce the adverse effects...

Premarin and Prempro: Lawsuits

Posted on July 16, 2008
Wyeth has settled lawsuits with two women who developed breast cancers. The drug maker of Premarin and Prempro is facing more than 5,000 lawsuits. Hormone replacement therapy is used to treat symptoms that accompany menopause. In 2002, a hormone replacement study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) determined that Prempro, Premarin and similar drugs increased the risk of stroke, heart attacks, blood clots and breast cancer...

Cipro: A Case of Fluoride Poisoning?

Posted on July 15, 2008
After my last two blogs about Cipro and Levaquin side effects, you guys have responded with an overwhelming amount of feedback. After reading all of your replies, it definitely seems like something is going awry. So I decided to dig a little deeper and I came across this article...

More Accounts of Cipro/Levaquin Side Effects

Posted on July 14, 2008
Last week we blogged about Cipro and Levequin, two antibiotics that have been known to cause some pretty bad side effects. The FDA released a statement on July 8, that requested black box warnings for these drugs. Talk about side effects! These drugs have been linked to a risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture! I decided to dig around a bit and see if I could find any first-hand accounts of people who have taken these drugs and experienced the side effects...

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