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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Risks Ford Cancer, Blood Clots And Cardiac Problems

Posted on March 28, 2009
Women who have Hormone Replacement Therapy (hrt) are more at risk for breast cancer according to the American Cancer Society: Results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have shown that daily use of combined HRT increases a woman's chance of developing breast cancer by about 5% to 6% with each year of use...

Judge Rules That Congressman Saxby Chambliss Is Immune From Attorney's Questions

Posted on March 25, 2009
The AP (3/25, Bynum) reports, "A judge has ruled Sen. Saxby Chambliss doesn't have to answer questions from a lawyer suing Imperial Sugar on behalf of victims of the explosion at the company's Georgia refinery last year." The lawyer, Mark Tate, who is representing "families of six employees killed in the blast and five injured workers, subpoenaed Chambliss in hopes of asking him if the company sought his help to discredit a whistleblower and discourage workers from suing...

Medical Malpractice in Hawaii - Should The Hawaii Legislators Reward Doctors?

Posted on March 24, 2009
While the Hawaii legislature considers handing out a free pass for doctors to injure their patients through blatant mistakes and not have to pay for it, a recent survey shows that the medical profession has a problem: half of the doctors in the survey hide real mistakes when they see them made by other doctors...

Medical Malpractice Legislation In Hawaii - Have the Democrats Finally Abandoned The Public?

Posted on March 24, 2009
Jim Krueger, a great Maui attorney and a life long champion for the little guy, has exposed some shameful legislative manipulation by a few doctors in conspiracy with a few Democratic legislators who have abandoned the basic tenants of the Democratic Party...

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Chinese Drywall Is Not DRAGONBOARD!

Posted on March 24, 2009
I posted an article on January 2, 2009 about a problem in the Southeastern states involving toxic odors of sulfur from drywall installed in new homes: "Drywall From China Causes Concern Over Sulfur Odor In Homes". The story generated a lot of Comments and in the process some facts were not reported accurately...

Dairy Food, Calcium, and Risk of Cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

Posted on March 24, 2009
In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(4):391-401) dairy food and calcium intake was studied to see if they play roles that differ among individual cancers. The science to date has been limited and inconsistent and their effect on cancer in total has been unclear...

JAMA Hides Public Disclosures Of Conflicts Of Interest - Calls Scientist "A Nobody"

Posted on March 24, 2009
In the Wall Street Journal on March 23 David Armstrong writes in his Health Blog that the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): "says it is adopting a new policy under which anyone asserting that study authors have failed to disclose conflicts of interest should keep the matter confidential until JAMA investigates...

Tragedy Sunday Moring On Kauai As Truck Crashes In Kekaha

Posted on March 23, 2009
Max Agor, 18 years old and from Lawai, was driving his pick-up truck east-bound on Kaumualii Highway near St. Theresa's Church at about 1:12 a.m. with a female passenger. Agor lost control of the Toyota pickup truck, went onto the east-bound shoulder and flipped over several times...

Federal Preemption Puts Consumers At Risk According To Observers

Posted on March 23, 2009
In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register (3/20) Joel Olah, executive director of aging resources of central Iowa, wrote, "Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of medical-device manufacturers and against consumers in a case that has ramifications on the individual rights of thousands of Iowans...

Landmark Chemical Reform places burden on Industry to prove chemicals are safe

Posted on February 21, 2009
Toxic chemicals in consumer products are a major fear because they get into the poeple who use them. Three members of Congress have introduced legislation to help insure that chemicals are safe before they come to market. The current Toxic Substances Control Act, unchanged since 1976, approves most new chemicals with little or no safety testing...

Honolulu Alert: Another Pedestrian Struck Down In A Crosswalk

Posted on February 17, 2009
Honolulu what is happening here? Another woman was struck down in a crosswalk Tuesday morning? The epidemic of crosswalk injuries and deaths seems out of control to me. According a KHNL news report Tuesday morning at the corner of Piikoi and King Streets a 23 year old woman was struck by a vehicle driven by a 65 year old woman...

Another Pedestrian Death In Beretania Street Crosswalk

Posted on February 11, 2009
A pedestrian, Richard Tasaka, 63 years old, was fatally injured Friday night while walking in the McCully area. He was struck while in a crosswalk by a tour bus at about 7:30 p.m. Mr. Tasaka was crossing Beretania Street at McCully and the tour bus was making a left turn from McCully onto Beretania...

DUI Arrests Continue Eight Year Trend in Honolulu

Posted on February 11, 2009
Drunk driving arrests in Honolulu increased during 2008 according to the Honolulu Police Department . The data shows nearly 400 more motorists were charged with suspicion of DUI in Honolulu in 2008 than the previous year. That continues an eight year trend that can be explained at least in part by increased police efforts to catch drunk drivers...

Judge Decertifies Class Action Suit Against Pfizer Over Epilepsy Drug

Posted on February 11, 2009
The Legal Intelligencer (2/11, Elliot-Engel) reports, "A month before a pharmaceutical class action was set for trial, a Philadelphia judge decertified the class of users of an epilepsy and neuralgia drug seeking reimbursement from the drug's maker after being prescribed the drug for uses not approved by federal regulators" granting "a pharmaceutical company defendant's motion for class decertification in Clark v...

Italy And The Vatican Face Constitutional Crisis Over Right-to-die Of Woman In A Coma For 17 Years

Posted on February 10, 2009
Silvia Aloisi of the International Herald Tribune reports that Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pushing a law through parliament to force doctors to resume feeding a comatose woman in a right-to-die case that has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis...

What Do You Think About Drug Companies Paying Your Doctor Money?

Posted on February 10, 2009
Did you know that drug companies pay doctors money? The payments cover a range of activities such as doctor's speaking engagements, clinical trials, payments to institutions like Universities where doctors do research and other things like trips to conferences and the like...

Peanut Butter Salmonella Scandal Gets Worse: Plant shipped Salmonella-tainted product before receiving re-test results.

Posted on February 09, 2009
Leading the way on the tainted peanut butter scandal, one young Atlanta personal injury attorney and a law student working with him are rising in national recognition as food safety consumer advocates. Law student Jessica Smagacz and attorney Brandon Smith have done the lion share of public education about this threat to public health and safety...

New Supreme Court session seen as worth watching.

Posted on February 06, 2009
Forbes (2/5, Fisher) reported, "Cases recalling the commercial struggles of the early United States, the fate of 1.2 million acres of Hawaiian real estate and the question of whether judges should be disqualified from hearing suits involving campaign supporters are all on the Supreme Court's docket this spring" and "it's not a blockbuster session like last fall, when the high court handed a big victory to Exxon Corp...

Whistleblower accuses SEC of "illiteracy" over Madoff scandal.

Posted on February 05, 2009
The Financial Times (2/5, Chung, et al.) reports that former money manager Harry "Markopolos, who tried for nine years to expose Mr. Madoff, told a congressional hearing yesterday that staff incompetence on the part of the US Securities and Exchange Commission was partly to blame for failing to bring a case against Mr Madoff earlier...

Sylvia Minor: Has Our Country Lost Its Compassion For People?

Posted on February 03, 2009
Two comments have been posted on my recent post about Sylvia Minor. HELP! Sylvia Is Facing Breast Cancer Alone Without Paul - A Story of Justice Gone Wrong! Both were apparently women and they both had that nasty tone of the Karl Rove, Dick Chaney, U...

Obama Promises Review Of FDA Operations

Posted on February 03, 2009
In the second installment of an interview with President Barack Obama, Matt Lauer on the NBC Today Show (2/2, 7:13 a.m. EST) noted the "massive peanut butter products recall" traced back to a Georgia plant that "has a history of sending out products even though there have been traces of salmonella found...

HELP Sylvia Minor Get Her Husband Back - Breast Cancer Will Not Wait.

Posted on February 03, 2009
"..... Minor’s wife Sylvia developed breast cancer during the trial, which metastasized to her brain and lungs. Last month doctors stopped all medications other than those for pain management ....." Paul Minor has been imprisoned for drinking while released on bond pending appeal...

HELP! Sylvia Struggling With Breast Cancer Needs Paul - A Story of Justice Gone Wrong!

Posted on February 02, 2009
Sylvia has breast cancer and she is all alone. Her husband Paul is in prison. We need to call evreryone we know and raise the volume to a level where they will let Paul rush to his wife's side and hold her hand through this ordeal. Before you click off, this is a story that everyone should read and everyone should shout about...

Nanakuli Fatal Car Crash - Speeding Causes More Tragic Death and Injury On Roads

Posted on January 30, 2009
KHON TV News reported in a story published on its website on Jan 25, 2009, details a fatal car crash in Nanakuli on Saturday morning. At 6:50 a.m. on Saturday morning Alexander Suguitan was on his way to work driving eastbound on Farrington Highway in Nanakuli near the 7-11 store...

Obama signs equal-pay bill into law.

Posted on January 30, 2009
President Obama yesterday signed his first bill into law yesterday, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. USA Today (1/30, Jackson) reports the new law "makes it easier for workers to sue companies for pay discrimination and effectively reverses a 2007 Supreme Court decision that had given workers 180 days to file a lawsuit after the pay inequity allegedly first took place...

Mayor Hannemann Puts People and Health First With Plans For Sewage System

Posted on January 27, 2009
Laurie Au of the Honolulu Star Bulletin reported on January 19, 2009 that Mayor Mufi Hannemann has responded to a recent federal ruling forcing the city to upgrade two major waste-water treatment plants by asking the state Department of Health to update its water quality standards...

Was Army study manipulated? Makua seafood pollution cover-up?

Posted on January 27, 2009
In a report by Honolulu Advertiser military writer William Cole, Earthjustice contends that the Army skewed a study of contamination in a report. The report analyzed the impact of 60 years of military training in Makua Valley on the marine environment...

Supreme Court sides with employee on retaliation case.

Posted on January 27, 2009
The Washington Post (1/27, A2, Barnes) reports, "The Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that a federal anti-discrimination law protects employees from retaliation when they cooperate with internal investigations of harassment," siding with "Vicky S...

Labor bill may give workers tool to fight for higher pay.

Posted on January 26, 2009
The Wall Street Journal (1/24, Trottman, Maher) reported, "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, named for a woman whose attempt to sue Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. for pay discrimination was blocked because she waited too long, is poised to be one of the first bills signed by President Barack Obama" and "if enacted, it could present a new tool for workers to fight for higher pay, and an array of challenges for businesses...

Obama blocks implementation of Bush's pending midnight regulations.

Posted on January 21, 2009
The AP (1/21, Loven) reports the one of President Barack Obama's "first acts Tuesday was to put the brakes on all pending regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through in its waning days." The "order went out shortly after Obama was inaugurated president, in a memorandum signed by new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel...

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