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Toyota Still Can't Fix the Problem

Posted on December 01, 2009
The Detroit Free Press reported in this article that Toyota is still trying to figure out the problem behind their runaway vehicles. Toyota continues to mention properly securing or removing floor mats to avoid having the gas pedal get stuck, but a lawsuit involving a Toyota Camry suddenly accelerating with no driver's side mat in place questions the validity of the floor mat fix...

Database of Medical Malpractice Unavailable to the Public

Posted on December 01, 2009
Tulsa World reported that there is a national database of medical malpractice data that the public is unable to fully access. The database is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and includes about 460,000 records of malpractice lawsuits. However, the public can only view the lawsuit's allegations and the patient's health, while the remaining information is only open to hospitals, managed care organizations, and state licensing agencies...

Toyota Recalling 110,000 Tundra's in 20 States

Posted on November 25, 2009
Toyota, in yet another in what seems to be a stream of recent recalls, is recalling 110,000 Tundra pick-up trucks from the model years 2000-2003. The recall is attempting to address excessive rust on the trucks' frames, and the government (NHTSA) is urging owners to remove the spare tire from the vehicle because it is concerned the tire could drop into the roadway, which could cause hazards for motorists...

VA Supreme Court Rules On Wrongful-Death Case

Posted on November 22, 2009
In a split decision, the Virginia Supreme Court decided to reinstate and send back to Henrico County Circuit Court (the trial court) a wrongful-death case in which a fourteen-year-old girl died in an automobile wreck. Jaimee Kellermann died while visiting a former school friend in Henrico County, Virginia in December 2004 after Paul and Paula McDonough, the parents of the friend, according to the suit, failed to maintain a promise that Jaimee would not be allowed to ride in a car driven by a juvenile...

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New FDA Initiative Seeks To Decrease Drug Dosage Errors

Posted on November 22, 2009
In an attempt to curb the number of serious deaths and illnesses caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is attempting to identify the most serious threats and find ways to avoid them through their Safe Use Initiative. The FDA called on doctors, other healthcare professionals and consumers in order to gain information about which drugs and circumstances may be particular problems; they will also be calling public hearings as well...

Misleading Toyota Recall Sparks Criticism From NHTSA

Posted on November 22, 2009
Federal safety regulators have reprimanded Toyota Motor Corp. for issuing misleading and inaccurate statements that no defect exists in the 3.8 million automobiles it voluntarily recalled on September 29 after a 2009 Lexus ES 350 sedan accelerated out of control in San Diego County, California, killing four people...

Maclaren Failed to Report Finger-Chopping Danger

Posted on November 20, 2009
Maclaren recently recalled strollers made as far back as 1999 because the stroller hinge can cause a child's finger to be amputated when placed in the hinge upon opening or closing the stroller. Twelve children have had their fingers amputated! The New York Post reported that Maclaren knew about the defect as early as 2004, when the first finger amputation was reported...

Validity of Pfizer Neurontin Drug Study Questioned

Posted on November 17, 2009
Studies on the Pfizer Inc. drug Neurontin may have been skewed in order to have favorable results, reports Bloomberg. The drug is intended to treat epilepsy, however the studies focused on uses for Neurontin that had not yet been approved by the FDA...

Aluminum Bat Manufacturer Found Liable For Player?s Death

Posted on November 16, 2009
After twelve hours of deliberation, a jury in Lewis and Clark County, Montana recently sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch, who died after being struck in the temple by a batted ball in a 2003 baseball game against the Helena Senators...

Obama Appointment for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is Stunning

Posted on September 30, 2009
President Obama made a strange appointment regarding who would become leader of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ("FMCSA"). Although Obama has passed an order stating he would limit lobbyists' power to enter the government as high officials to influence policy from within, he appointed Anne Ferro, a major trucking industry lobbyist in Maryland, to lead this agency that oversees truck safety...

Private Insurance Bureaucracies Abusing the System?

Posted on September 30, 2009
A House subcommittee held a hearing last Tuesday regarding private insurance bureaucracies' abuse of the health insurance system. "The hearing was part of a continuing Democratic effort to promote an overhaul of the nation's health care system by focusing on alleged abuses by health insurers" reported The Washington Post in a September 17 article entitled, "House Subcommittee Hearing Focuses on Alleged Insurer Abuses"...

Judge Rules Toyota Suit Remain Unsealed

Posted on September 30, 2009
A federal judge in Los Angeles has refused to seal a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Dimitrios Biller, a former in-house attorney for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Biller claims Toyota hid and destroyed evidence in many rollover lawsuits. While Toyota argues the suit violates the confidentiality agreement in Biller's severance package and will cause the company to suffer more harm if the complaint is not sealed, the judge ruled it would be pointless to seal the complaint since information regarding the lawsuit is already on the Internet...

Bayer Warned By FDA Regarding Birth Control Products Quality

Posted on September 24, 2009
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators have written a letter warning drugmaker Bayer about quality control issues in the company's plant in Berghamen, Germany. This plant is responsible for making drospirenone, the key ingredient for popular birth control drugs like Yaz and Yasmin; these products were Bayer's top selling pharmaceuticals last year, with global sales of $1...

Supplements - More Dangerous Than They Appear (Or Advertised)?

Posted on September 24, 2009
In its September 7th article 'What's Really in Supplements?' The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)discusses the harmful side effects of a growing trend in the American dietary and strength conditioning communities: the taking of over-the-counter supplements. Many supplements purport to aid in the building of muscle mass or in weight loss, claiming to do what prescription or illegal drugs do via an herbal means...

Toxic Water Is Major Problem In US Cities

Posted on September 17, 2009
Residents in an area near Charleston, West Virginia have started to avoid contact with tap water after scabs began developing on their arms, legs and chests where the bathwater, which is polluted with lead, nickel and other heavy metals, caused painful rashes...

Ghostwriting Issues Abound in Scientific, Medical Publications

Posted on September 17, 2009
A September 11 article published in the New York Times entitled, 'Ghostwriting Is Called Rife in Medical Journals,' reports on the findings of a recent survey conducted by the editors of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that addresses the amount of ghostwriting that takes place in the creation of scientific literature...

Toyota May Be Forced To Reopen Rollover Crash Cases

Posted on September 13, 2009
Toyota Motor Company is already facing demands that roll-over crash cases it settled or won be reopened, after a former company attorney, Dimitrios Biller, accused the automaker of hiding records sought by plaintiffs' attorneys. Biller worked with Toyota from 2003 to 2008 managing records for the company's litigation; he resigned, however, in 2008 after he disagreed with Toyota's insistence on hiding data...

Feds Seek to Change Drugmakers' Practices With Pfizer Settlement

Posted on September 13, 2009
A record $2.3 billion settlement with Pfizer has reinforced the Obama administration's stance on health-care fraud. Recently, 'Pfizer unit Pharmacia & Upjohn pleaded guilty to a single felony charge that accused the company of marketing its anti-inflammatory drug Bextra for broader uses and higher dosages than those approved by the Food and Drug Administration...

New Legislation May Aid Consumers Harmed By Foreign Manufacturers

Posted on September 13, 2009
Many products consumed these days, from children's toys to medicines, are made in countries where, often, manufacturing standards are almost nonexistent. Therefore, when products have defects, it is extremely difficult to hold these foreign companies responsible in the United States' Court System...

Toyota Issues Recall in Nineteen States - Corollas and Scions

Posted on September 07, 2009
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., is launching a voluntary Safety Recall on nearly 96,000 Toyota and Scion vehicles. Per the press release from Toyota: 'On certain 2009 and 2010 model year Toyota Corolla, Corolla Matrix, and 2008 and 2009 Scion xD vehicles all equipped with 1...

Window Coverings Recalled After 3 Strangulation Deaths

Posted on September 07, 2009
Because three children have been strangled on product cords, millions of window coverings are being recalled by six companies: Lewis Hyman, Pottery Barn Kids, IKEA, Lutron, Vertical Land and Victoria Classics. Some of the coverings were also sold at Target and Expo Design Center stores...

?Don?t Let Us Get Sick? ? Consumer Reports Surveys Patients, Nurses on Hospital Sanitation

Posted on September 07, 2009
Consumer Reports ("CR") recently took a 'side-by-side' survey regarding the sanitary conditions of hospitals across the country. In 2009 it interviewed 731 nurses who worked in different areas of the hospital (ranging from the E.R. to the operating room), and in 2008 it heard from 13,540 readers who reported their various experiences with staying in hospitals, whether personal or referencing a family member, during 2007...

New Study Shows Imaging Tests Expose Patients To Excessive Radiation

Posted on September 07, 2009
According to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine, at least four million Americans under the age of sixty-five are exposed to high doses of radiation annually from medical imaging tests; more than 400,000 of these patients receive very high doses, more than the maximum annual exposure permitted for staff at nuclear power plants or anyone else who works with radioactive material...

Four Out of Five Ain?t Bad? ? Research Finds 1 out of 5 Trucks Unfit

Posted on September 02, 2009
Recently, a new batch of statistics has emerged from research done by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) regarding motor carrier safety violations. Violations found include such unsafe practices as "overloading trucks, allowing unqualified or untrained drivers behind the wheel, failing to maintain tires and brakes, and salary systems that encourage truck drivers to exceed speed limits and maximum driving hours...

Fire on Ice ? More Maytag Fridges Recalled

Posted on September 01, 2009
Due to an electrical failure, Maytag has expanded its initial March recall of 1.6 million refrigerators to an additional 42,000, now including refrigerators under the Maytag, Magic Chef and Performa by Maytag and Crosley umbrellas. The failure is being cited as a potential fire hazard which causes the compressor to kick on at random and may lead to overheating...

Family Medicine Doctor Numbers Declining

Posted on September 01, 2009
In recent years, there has been a decline in the number of medical students who want to pursue family medicine, though many say it is the frontline for wellness and preventive-care programs that can help reduce healthcare costs. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the number of U...

Little Tikes Issues Recall On 1.6 million Toy Workshops and Trucks

Posted on August 28, 2009
Little Tikes has issued a voluntary recall on 1.6 million toy workshops and trucks after a toddler choked on a plastic nail. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said the recall covers five toy models sold by Little Tikes as far back as March 1994...

Toys ?R? Us to Keep Things Safe with "The Great Trade-In Program"

Posted on August 28, 2009
In the August 26, 2009 Charlottesville section of Craigslist.com, there were 71 new posts in the "Baby+Kids" subsection of "For Sale." Going solely off of the post titles (admittedly, I disregarded a thorough analysis of each post's contents for the sake of search-brevity), out of those 71 posts, 3 were for strollers (4%), 2 were for car seats (3%), 2 were for highchairs (3%), 8 were for swing sets/play sets (12%), 5 were for cribs/beds/bassinets (7%), 12 were for clothes (17%), 2 were for food (3%), 5 were for bikes/scooters/walkers (7%), 10 were for miscellaneous toys (14%), and 2 were for child backpacks/harnesses (for carrying children) (3%)...

Antidepressant Use in US Doubled To Over 10% in Ten Years

Posted on August 27, 2009
A recent study released by Columbia University has found that compared to data from 1996, the number of Americans taking antidepressants doubled to 10.1 percent of the U.S. population in 2005, increasing across both income and age groups. Another recent study also found that diagnoses of major depression in adults increased from 3...

Study - Gym Class Injuries Increased Dramatically Since 1997

Posted on August 27, 2009
A new pediatric study has shown that children these days are more likely to get injured in gym class than they were a decade ago. Dr. Lara McKenzie of National Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, the lead researcher on the study, suggests the reason for this 150% increase in physical education (PE)- related injuries treated at emergency departments from 1997-2007 could be a lack of supervision a decrease in full- time school nurses, and a change in the PE curriculum...

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