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The Senates' 60 Vote Showdown On Saturday
Posted on November 20, 2009LEARN MORE Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Web site Text of H.R. 3590 IMAGE SOURCE: Sen Harry Reid video from Web site Will They Pull Together? Prior to a rare Senate Saturday session, Democratic leaders are ensuring they have critical last-minute commitments, the 60 votes needed before they can even begin debating health care reform in the Senate...
Thermal Imaging May Top Mammograms
Posted on November 19, 2009LEARN MORE International Academy of Clinical Thermology –find a practitioner Dr. Susan Lark -Web site US Preventive Services Task Force –Breast Screening Recommendations, November 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: IMAGE SOURCE: Dr...
Vicks Nasal Spray Recalled By P&G
Posted on November 19, 2009LEARN MORE Vicks Press Release IB News - Parents Warned Against Using Vicks VapoRub On Children, Jan. 2009 IB New York City – P&G Warned Over Vitamin C In Vicks Products, Oct...
Medtronic Gets FDA Warning After Inspection
Posted on November 18, 2009LEARN MORE Medtronic letter to physicians March 13, 2009 IB Help Center- Sprint Fidelis Leads FDA on Medtronic Medtronic Web site IB News - Medtronic Heart Device: More Fatalities Revealed - April 2009 NEJM Editorial - on The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, March 18, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Medtronic Web site/ Medtronic Sprint Fidelis lead FDA Inspection Finds Problems Medtronic, the maker of medical devices that corrects heart rhythms, has been ordered to fix problems at its Minnesota factory following a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection at its manufacturing plant...
Mammogram Recommendation Major Turnabout
Posted on November 17, 2009Health Care Community Divided LEARN MORE Annals of Internal Medicine –Screening for Breast Cancer – November 2009 American Cancer Society – Recommendations for mammogram screening, 2002 ACS- Statement from Otis Brawley, MD, chief medical officer American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Action Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Breast Cancer Action logo from Web site It's no wonder women are confused, as are doctors and health care providers...
Cancer Cluster At The Acreage Moving Toward Litigation
Posted on November 17, 2009LEARN MORE Searcy Denny Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA Law firm IB Partner, Eddie Farah, Jacksonville – Erin Brockovich Focuses on Florida Cancer Cluster Case – October 2009 The Acreage Map of affected families Florida DEP – Frequently Asked Questions about The Acreage Department of Environmental Protection Web site – The Acreage IMAGE SOURCE: Palm Beach Post Web page/ site of contamination at The Acreage Three law firms are beginning the process of signing up clients considering legal action as the cancer cluster in the Acreage neighborhood of Palm Beach County remains a mystery...
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Affecting Teen Girls
Posted on November 17, 2009Teen Girls Affected LEARN MORE CDC- Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2008 report CDC- Treatment Guidelines, 2006 IB News - Teen STD Rate is Alarming - March 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: CDC chart on chlamydia rates from Web site There are almost 19 million cases of sexually transmitted disease diagnosed in the U...
Kids' Allergies Skyrocket
Posted on November 16, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics – Food Allergy Among Children in the United States – November 2009 Europrevall Web site Allergy Kids Web site Dr...
FDA Crackdown on Energy Drinks With Alcohol
Posted on November 16, 2009Caffeine and Alcohol LEARN MORE FDA letter to alcoholic energy drink makers, September 25, 2009 FDA News Release - Inquiry Into Caffeinated Alcoholic drinks IMAGE SOURCE: Lotus Vodka Web site 27 makers of so-called energy drinks, a favorite of young drinkers, are getting some attention from the Food and Drug Administration...
Zetia Efficiency Trumped By Niacin
Posted on November 16, 2009LEARN MORE New England Journal of Medicine - Extended-Release Niacin or Ezetimibe and Carotid Intima - November 2009 New England Journal of Medicine Vytorin study on cancer IB News - Vytorin Safety in Doubt - September 2008 InjuryBoard - Vytorin Help Center InjuryBoard - Vytorin News Merck - Statement on Zetia & Vytorin- Nov 15, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ cholesterol lowering drugs/ author: dlerick Cheap B Vitamin- Niacin Proponents of alternative and complementary health have been saying it for some time...
Long-Term Health Problems Linked To Foodborne Illness
Posted on November 16, 2009Salmonella LEARN MORE Make Our Food Safe Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention CSPI – Ten Riskiest Foods Report, October 2009 CDC on Foodborne Illness IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / salmonella A recent study by the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention finds foodborne infections can have long-lasting health effects that can be as serious as kidney failure, paralysis, hearing or visual impairments, mental retardation, seizure and possibly death...
Report - Companies Underreporting Work-Related Injuries
Posted on November 16, 2009LEARN MORE GAO Report OSHA News Release IB News, Top 10 Safety Violations for 2009 InjuryBoard Workplace Injuries Help Center IMAGE SOURCE: © OSHA logo Work-related illnesses and injuries are often under-reported finds a new report by The U...
Baby Boomers Increasingly Disabled, Obese
Posted on November 13, 200980-year-olds fared better in terms of disability trends Rising Disabilities Among 60 Yr Olds "Disturbing" LEARN MORE American Academy of Family Physicians - On Good Health Habits Over 60 National Institute on Aging Web site University of Florida- Institute on Aging Research Project on physical activity CDC - On obesity rates IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ elder exercise/ author: LeggNet Whether they want to or not, baby boomers are rapidly becoming the elders of our time, but their future health-wise may not be as rosy as past generations...
Traumatic Brain And PTSD Disorders Seen In Scans
Posted on November 13, 2009LEARN MORE IB News – Study Finds Combat Vets Returning With Post Traumatic Stress – January 2008 Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD National Intrepid Center of Excellence Where to get help for PTSD 1-800-273-8255 Fact Sheet – PTSD Boston University- News Release on PTSD therapy, October 2009 Boston University- Trauma Memory Lab IMAGE SOURCE: Boston University Trauma Memory Lab/ brain images The damage is largely invisible but the effects are not...
Swine Flu Update: 4,000 Deaths, Paralysis in Teen
Posted on November 12, 2009LEARN MORE CDC – Swine Flu Update CDC – on swine flu vaccine side effects GSK Web site IMAGE SOURCE: MSNBC Web site/ image of Jordan McFarland CDC Says These Are Actual Numbers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that since April there have been at least 4,000 swine flu deaths reported in the U...
State of Conn. To Face $150 Million Lawsuit Over Chimp Attack
Posted on November 12, 2009Charla Nash before the attack Nash Reveals Her Face LEARN MORE Oprah show Wednesday at Cleveland Clinic featuring Charla Nash Charla Nash Trust Web site IB News - $50 Million Lawsuit Filed in Chimp Attack - March 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Charla Nash Trust Web site Charla Nash is going public...
BPA Linked to Erectile Dysfunction
Posted on November 11, 2009LEARN MORE Human Reproduction – Occupational Exposure to Bisphenol-A – November 2009 IB News – Safe Home 101 –Stores Removing Baby Products Containing BPA – June 2008 FDA on Bisphenol-A (BPA) Science and Environmental Health Network InjuryBoard on plastic ban in California InjuryBoard on phthalates chemical in plastics InjuryBoard Help Center – Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Conscious Choice on plastics, Feb 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ baby boy and bottle/ author: Matthias Sebulke You Find It Everywhere Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a chemical used to harden plastics...
Lipitor Wants To Twitter
Posted on November 11, 2009Industry Meets With FDA LEARN MORE FDA- Announcement on meeting and participants FDA on Broadcast marketing rules PhRMA - Statement on Internet marketing IB News – How You Drive Up Health Costs – November 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Lipitor ad from Web site The drug industry wants to bring us more ads for Cialis, Claritin and Lipitor online via Google, Twitter and social media Web sites and will press its case with the FDA beginning Thursday...
United Airlines Pilot Charged With Being Over Alcohol Limit
Posted on November 11, 2009LEARN MORE United Airlines IB News - Amid Pilot Accolades - Do You Know How Much Your Pilot Makes? February 2009 Airline Pilot Central Captain salaries ALPA IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons Web site / United Airlines Boeing 767 lands at Heathrow/ author: Adrian Pingstone 135 Passenbers Waiting A United Airlines Pilot has been charged with the pilots' version of DUI after allegedly having too much alcohol in his system...
98,000 Reasons To Care About Patient Safety
Posted on November 10, 2009LEARN MORE Journal of the American Medical Association – Editorial October 2008 98000reasons campaign IB News – Suffering in Silence from a Medical Device IB News – Defective Medtronic Lead Hearst newspaper group 'Dead by Mistake"- estimates 200,000 are killed annually by medical errors IMAGE SOURCE: 98000 reasons campaign Colin Gourley and his family Like two 737s crashing every day When that happens, do we blame the passengers of the airlines? That is the call of a new campaign, 98000 Reasons by the American Association for Justice (AAJ), named after the number of Americans who die from medical errors ever year, which some believe is about half of the deaths when you include hospital infection...
Yaz, Yasmin Lawsuits May Become Class Action in New Jersey
Posted on November 10, 2009LEARN MORE Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Yaz Web site Yaz – Product label FDA – Letter to Bayer, October 2008 KGO-TV Video story IMAGE SOURCE: KGO-TV San Francisco Web site/ image of Susan Galinis In 2007, Susan Galinis, of the San Francisco area, was the happy mother of three-year-old twins...
Stroller Recall After A Dozen Kids Lose Fingertips In Hinges
Posted on November 09, 2009Beginning Tuesday LEARN MORE Maclaren USA Web site USA toll-free at (877) 688-2326 IMAGE SOURCE: CPSC Web site/ Maclaren stroller One million baby strollers are being recalled beginning Tuesday after 12 children had their fingertips amputated in the stroller hinges...
Survey - Many Doctors Perform Unnecessary Pap Smears
Posted on November 09, 2009LEARN MORE Annals of Internal Medicine, Nov. 2009 InjuryBoard on Pap Smear Errors InjuryBoard on Cervical Cancer WomensHealth on Pap Smears IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / cervical changes with HPV effect / author: Dr...
Health Care Reform Has Insurance Industry On The Hot Seat
Posted on November 09, 2009Health Care Reform: Insurance Is The Issue LEARN MORE Meet the Press- Bruce Josten- U.S. Chamber America's Health Insurance Plans Web site Sen. Leahy – Hearings on 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009 Physician Insurers Association of America IB News – Big Insurance Keeps Medical Premium Profits Quiet Says Senate Inquiry – November 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ the cost of medical care/ author: JurgaR There is agreement over health care reform on a few points - very few...
Study Links St. John's Wort To Cataracts
Posted on November 09, 2009St. John's Wort flowers LEARN MORE The Association between Self-Reported Cataracts and St. John's Wort InjuryBoard on St. John's Wort New Scientist - Sun Trap, July 1999 IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ St...
Health Care Reform - Remember Why We Need It
Posted on November 07, 2009Thousands Forced To Access Free Health Care in Animal Stalls LEARN MORE 'It's the Prices, Stupid: Why the United States Is So Different From Other Countries' – Health Affairs, 2003 WHO- Press Release on world ranking on health care delivery - June 2000 National Coalition on Health Care – on numbers of uninsured IMAGE SOURCE: National Public Radio/ Web site/ images from Wise, Virginia About the only thing that Republicans and Democrats agree on is that the country will go broke if health care delivery continues in the U...
'Heed the Gavel' Yells Dingell In House Health Reform Rules Debate
Posted on November 07, 2009Dissent Seen in House Rules Meeting LEARN MORE The White House HR 3962 C-Span House Live IMAGE SOURCE: C-Span What's the old saying about not wanting to know how sausage and laws are made? Around 11:20 this morning with Rep...
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Posted on November 07, 2009Rare Saturday Session LEARN MORE The White House HR 3962 C-Span House Live Rep. John Dingell D-Mi Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Gavel/ iStockphoto President Obama plans to visit Pennsylvania Avenue today to do some last minute rallying in support of the Democratic bill that will reform health care, H...
Votes Are In! Democrats Pass Historic Health Care Bill
Posted on November 07, 2009LEARN MORE The White House HR 3962 C-Span House Live Rep John Dingell - Op-Ed - Numbers, not shouting, overwhelm health care debate - November 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Politico Web site of the House Democrats Pass Historic Health Care Reform The magic number came at 11:07 p...
Health Care Reform: Abortion Amendment Added, Boehner Substitute Defeated
Posted on November 07, 2009LEARN MORE The White House HR 3962 C-Span House Live Rep John Dingell – Op-Ed – Numbers, not shouting, overwhelm health care debate – November 2009 Politico Web site IMAGE SOURCE: C-Span Dems Continue With Vote After Abortion Restriction Every seat in the House was full just before 10 p...
Vote Expected on Health Care Reform Saturday Night
Posted on November 07, 2009Does House speaker Nancy Pelosi have the 218 votes she needs to pass the Democratic version of health care reform? The Clerk of the House office says a vote on health care reform is expected tonight possibly between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Rep. John Mica's office says expect the vote at 10 p...
Does Health Care Reform Keep Patients Safe?
Posted on November 07, 2009The Cost of Medical Error LEARN MORE American Cancer Society- Press Release on support AMA Web site HR 3962 C-Span House Live IB News – Suffering in Silence from a Medical Device IB News – Defective Medtronic Lead Center for Justice & Democracy- Medical Malpractice Victim Stories Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute CBO on Boehner Amendment IMAGE SOURCE: Center for Justice & Democracy Web site/ Steven Olson, injured by medical malpractice Largely missing from the debate about the 'cost' of health care is the human and fiscal toll of medical and medication errors, and defective medical devices...
Health Care Bill Clears Hurdle
Posted on November 07, 2009LEARN MORE The White House HR 3962 C-Span House Live Rep John Dingell – Op-Ed – Numbers, not shouting, overwhelm health care debate – November 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Web site/ President Obama after visiting House members Vote Possible Saturday It was getting contentious on the House floor today as Democrats and Republicans could not only not agree about health care reform but couldn't even agree about the rules for a debate...
Votes In Question on Health Care Reform
Posted on November 06, 2009LEARN MORE American Cancer Society- Press Release on support AMA Web site HR 3962 C-Span House Live IMAGE SOURCE: C-Span Late Add* 12:30 p.m. - Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer ( D-Md) tells Mike Soraghan, reporter for The Hill, speaking on C-Span that the vote on health care reform could slip into Sunday or early next week...
Pelosi Scrambles For Last Minute Votes On Health Care
Posted on November 06, 2009Most Admit Havent Read 1,990 Pages LEARN MORE The White House HR 3962 C-Span House Live IMAGE SOURCE: C-Span House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gathered one more vote for health care legislation Thursday by swearing in San Francisco Bay Area Rep...
Kellogg's Pulls Immunity Claims (Update 1)
Posted on November 05, 2009FDA Pressures Supplement Makers, Not Kellogg's After a very public chiding for putting an immunity-boosting claim on a box of sugared cereal, Kellogg Co. says it will pull the claim from the front of the Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies cereal boxes...
Protestors Tie Dem Health Plan To Holocaust
Posted on November 05, 2009AMA, AARP Endorse Dem Plan While GOP Rallies LEARN MORE Health Care Reform - Dems. Amendment to H.R. 3962 Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) Boehner - Broadcast statement Daily Kos Web site showing Holocaust banner at "House Call" Protest AARP Announcement -Web site Congressional Budget Office- Preliminary analysis on House GOP plan Leaked GOP Plan GOP Plan IMAGE SOURCE: Daily Kos Web Site of stages GOP House Call, Nov...
Countdown To Health Care Reform
Posted on November 05, 2009Dems Hoping For Saturday Vote LEARN MORE Health Care Reform - Dems. Amendment to H.R. 3962 Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) Boehner - Broadcast statement AARP Announcement -Web site Congressional Budget Office- Preliminary analysis on House GOP plan IMAGE SOURCE: Washington post Web site/ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA) Democratic leaders could vote in the U...
Five Myths About Medical Negligence
Posted on November 04, 2009LEARN MORE AAJ - Five Myths About Medical Negligence, November 2009 Institute of Medicine - To Err is Human - November 1999 IB News - Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200k Deaths a Year - August 2009 U.S. Chamber - Institute For Legal Reform New England Journal of Medicine - Claims, Errors and Compensation - May 2006 Healthgrades - In-Hospital Deaths 195,000 per year - July 2004 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ Doctor's visit/ author: Lilliday Friday Debate As the House heads into a floor debate on health care reform, a key promise of the Obama administration and, a new white paper summarizes the outstanding issues of the debate...
Lawsuit Reform Georgia Style
Posted on November 04, 2009LEARN MORE Sen. Chambliss Press Release – Loser Pays proposal, November 2009 CBO- Analysis on limiting costs in medical malpractice, Oct 9 2009 Public Citizen- Tort Reform Myths IB News – Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200k Deaths a Year – August 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ toe tag following medical malpractice/ author: lisafx Georgia Republican U...
Big Insurance Keeps Medical Premium Profits Quiet Says Senate Inquiry
Posted on November 04, 2009LEARN MORE Sen. Rockefeller and Senate Analysis, Health Insurance Industry America's Health Insurance Plan Frontline - America's Private Health Insurance Industry, Sick Around America - March 2009 IB News - Med Mal Insurance Profit Up, Claims Are Down Study Finds - July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ the cost of medical care/ author: JurgaR Caps on Profits? Big Insurance is on the hot seat...
Pregnancy Warning - Two Antibiotics Linked To Birth Defects
Posted on November 03, 2009Two Antibiotics Linked to Birth Defects LEARN MORE Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine - Antibacterial Medication Use During Pregnancy and Risk of Birth Defects - Abstract, November 2009 National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities CDC - Monitoring Birth Defects InjuryBoard Help Center - Antibiotics IB News - Antidepressants in Early Pregnancy May Cause Heart Defect - September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ antibiotics/ iStockPhoto They are antibiotics not generally considered a first-line defense, but a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study warns pregnant women away from two antibiotics because of a possible link to birth defects...
Conn. Clinics Report Price Gouging Seasonal Flu Vaccine
Posted on November 03, 2009LEARN MORE State of Connecticut- Attorney General's Office CT AG Office Press Release- Flu Vaccine Distribution Practices – September 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Influenza Injuryboard on Flu Drugs IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto/ flu vaccine given/Millanovic Price Gouging? It appears to be happening in Connecticut...
Can Cereal Claim Immunity? So Far The Answer Is Yes
Posted on November 03, 2009LEARN MORE Dr. Weil Press Release, Oct 16 CBS Morning Show- Video Report Natural News on FDA and cocoa Krispies Kellogg's Web sits IMAGE SOURCE: CBS News video on Kellogg story Does Cocoa Krispies Fight the Flu? As Americans work toward their own personal type of health care reform- becoming healthier- there are companies that abound to fill the void...
Swine Flu Mask Recommendation Based On Faulty Science
Posted on November 02, 2009Swine Flu Mask Decision Revisited LEARN MORE JAMA - Canadian study on N-95 masks vs surgical masks Infectious Diseases Society of America - on Canadian study CDC - NIOSH-Approved N-95 Respirators Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America IMAGE SOURCE: N-95 respirator surgical mask/ NPR Web site The study that led to public policy to use the N-95 respirator surgical masks was based on faulty science...
E. Coli Ground Beef Recall Amid One Death
Posted on November 02, 2009One Dead, Two Sickened LEARN MORE Fairbank Farms - Consumers Should Check Their Freezers Update FSIS on recall InjuryBoard on E. coli Injuryboard on E. coli loophole InjuryBoard on Food Product Safety IB News - Toll House Cookie Contamination - June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ cows eating regularly minimizes E...
Swine Flu Side Effects To Be Monitored
Posted on November 02, 2009Monitoring 27 Million Doses Given LEARN MORE The Lancet - H1N1 Flu Resource Center National Vaccine Information Center - Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Failed Experiment in Tort Reform? - November 2008 HHS - National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VCIP) National Vaccine Program Office - Vaccine Safety Working Group IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Symptoms of swine flu/ author: CDC With all of the uncertainty about the new swine flu formulations, a group of independent health advisers will today begin monitoring the safety of the 27 million doses of vaccine being dispensed around the country...
Toyota Denies Recall May Go Beyond Floor Mats
Posted on November 02, 2009Lexus ES 350 Had Many Problems LEARN MORE NHTSA – Warning About Floor Mats - September 2009 NHTSA – Report on Saylor Crash - September 30, 2009 USA Today – Is the power start-stop button the most dangerous new feature in cars? - October 2009 Consumer Reports – More Than Floor Mats – October 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: NHTSA report showing floor mat made for the Lexus RX 400h stuck under pedal of Saylor fatal crash/ Courtesy USA Today Auto Blog In September, Toyota announced it was planning its largest recall ever of nearly four million vehicles over the issue of loose floor mats that may be interfering with the accelerator pedal in several models...
17,000 Child Deaths Among Uninsured Study Finds
Posted on October 30, 2009LEARN MORE HHS - Children's Health Insurance Program IB News – President Puts Band-Aid on Children's Health Program – January 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ father comforting girl/ author: YazolinoGirl The Cost of Being Uninsured The biggest impact on health may not come from medications, vitamins or lifestyle – it might be due to whether one has insurance or not...
Chinese Drywall Report Still Inconclusive
Posted on October 30, 2009LEARN MORE IB News - Chinese Drywall Suspicions Confirmed By EPA Tests, May 2009 IB News - Lawsuits Fly Over Chinese Drywall, Feb. 2009 Florida Dept...
CDC - Adults Need More Sleep
Posted on October 29, 2009LEARN MORE MMWR, Oct. 2009 InjuryBoard on Adult Sleep Disorders National Sleep Foundation CDC on Sleep IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockphoto / sleeping woman / author: graphixel A new government report shows only one-third of adults are getting sufficient sleep or rest every night...
Chamber Files Suit Against 'Yes Men'
Posted on October 29, 2009Will The Real Chamber Stand Up? LEARN MORE U.S. Chamber Web site (Yes Men) - Press Release supporting climate legislation U.S. Chamber (actual) Complaint against Yes Men Video of Yes Men ( U.S. Chamber) News Conference IMAGE SOURCE: Image of faux news conference/ from St...
Medical Device Maker Stryker Unit and Executives Indicted
Posted on October 29, 2009Facing Prison Time LEARN MORE Stryker Biotech LLC- Statement in Response to Indictment, Oct 28, 2009 U.S. Attorney Loucks – Statement on the Indictments FDA - Humanitarian Device Exemption IMAGE SOURCE: Stryker OP-1 putty/ Web site Stryker Biotech LLC and its executives were indicted by a grand jury Wednesday, accused of fraudulently marketing its bone-growth products and covering-up the misconduct...
Diet And Exercise Keep Diabetes At Bay Better Than Meds
Posted on October 29, 2009LEARN MORE The Lancet - "10-year follow-up of diabetes incidence and weight loss.." - October 2009 IB News - 8 Percent of U.S. Population has Diabetes - June 2008 InjuryBoard on Diabetes National Diabetes Education Program CDC on National Diabetes Fact Sheet, 2007 American Diabetes Association Diabetes Care InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Help Page - Metformin- Glucophage National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Diabetes Educational Program IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Diabetes icon Better Than Meds A new study adds to the growing body of convincing evidence that diabetes can be controlled by lifestyle changes...
Get The Lead Out Of Halloween Face Paints!
Posted on October 28, 2009In The Absence of FDA Testing LEARN MORE Campaign for Safe Cosmetics "Pretty Scary" - Report on Halloween cosmetic paint "A Little Prettier" - Report on phthalates in cosmetics Environmental Working Group - "Skin Deep" report on safe cosmetics "A Poison Kiss" - Lead in Lipstick report IB News - Target To Pay $600k Penalty For Lead - October 2009 Consumer Reports - Lead Test Strips IB Help Center - Lead & Lead-Based Paints IMAGE SOURCE: Snazaroo USA Web site small Image Source: Courtesy, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Web site A new report finds that that scary Halloween paint that may make your little one into a ghoul or a ghost this season may be scary for what you don't know - that it contains lead, nickel and other dangerous toxins that can cause learning disabilities, lifelong skin sensitization, fertility problems, and contact dermatitis...
Distracted Pilots Lose License To Fly
Posted on October 28, 2009LEARN MORE NTSB - Update on its investigation of Flight 188, October 26, 2009 Delta Airlines Statement on Northwest Flight 188 IB News - What Happened To Flight 188? - October 2009 FAA- Advisory Circular, 2006 - Use of Portable Devices IMAGE SOURCE: Citipages Web site / Minneapolis/ St Paul/ NWA jet Licenses Revoked Indefinitely Two Northwest Airlines pilots at the helm of the flight that overshot its destination by 150 miles last week have been grounded indefinitely...
Major Study Of BPA Planned
Posted on October 28, 2009LEARN MORE NIEHS Awards Recovery Act Funds to Address Bisphenol A Research Gaps National Toxicology Program (NTP) FDA on Bisphenol-A (BPA) InjuryBoard - Safe Home101 on Avoiding BPA InjuryBoard News on BPA IB News – Lawmakers To Seek Ban on BPA, November 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ baby boy and bottle/ author: Matthias Sebulke The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, will invest $30 million over two years to study the safety of bisphenol A, according to USA Today...
Weight Gain With Antipsychotic Use In Children
Posted on October 28, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA - Cardiometabolic Risk of Second-Generation Antipsychotics - October 2009 IB Help Center - Zyprexa IB Help Center - Antipsychotics IB Help Center - Children & antipsychotics IB News - Lilly Whistleblowers Lead to $1.4 Billion Record Zyprexa Settlement - January 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / Zyprexa / author: Zozza Many young children taking drugs for severe psychiatric problems such as autism, schizophrenia, tics, severe bipolar disorder and aggressive behavior, are gaining weight and increasing bad cholesterol levels, according to researchers in this published study...
Recalls: VAIO AC Adapters And Halloween Flashlights
Posted on October 28, 2009LEARN MORE Sony eSupport InjuryBoard Defective and Dangerous Products Help Center IMAGE SOURCE: © U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Sony Corp...
Controversial Trucking Regulations Thrown Out
Posted on October 27, 2009Settlement Finally Reached LEARN MORE Settlement – Public Citizen, ET AL. v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety Parents Against Tired Truckers – Fact Rebutting the Trucking Industry Myths Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration – Hours of Service regulations IB Partner, Mark Williams, Salt Lake City – Commercial Trucker's HOS Violations Put Public at Risk – August 2009 American Trucking Association IB News – Testing Truckers Want Computers in Cab – September 2009 IB Partner, Pierce Egerton, Greensboro, NC - To Text or Not To Text - September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ truck in the fall/ author: Ktkt 1234 Just how long should long-distance truckers be allowed to stay behind the wheel? The Bush administration three times authorized longer hours behind the wheel and on the road for long-distance truckers, despite the fact that the courts repeatedly tossed out the rule...
FDA Allows Unapproved Drugs To Stay On the Market
Posted on October 27, 2009LEARN MORE GAO Summary- New Drug Approval GAO – New Drug Approvals, Full Report – October 2009 Sen. Grassley on GAO findings IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ tablets/ author: Ragesoss Unapproved Yet Generating Profits A report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds many drugs currently on the market and being used by patients have not had postmarket surveillance completed for safety and efficacy...
Top 10 Safety Violations for 2009
Posted on October 27, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Workplace Injury Help Center NSC.org NSC's Safety+Health Magazine IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons The Top 10 workplace violations for 2009 has been released by the U...
Majority Of Pregnant Women Say No To Swine Flu Shot
Posted on October 27, 2009LEARN MORE Health and Human Services - Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VCIP) - grants immunity to drug makers Healthy Women Web site National Women's Health Resource Center- Healthy Women Campaign CSL Biotherapies-Swine Flu Manufacturer IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto / mom and newborn / author: iDerLander Swine Flu Shot Too New Pregnant woman are wary of the swine flu shot, according to a new survey...
Halloween Safety Tips for Pet Parents
Posted on October 27, 2009* Results not typical. Most pets dislike dressing up! LEARN MORE IB News, FDA Warning: Scary Halloween Contact Lenses CDC Halloween Safety Tips CPSC: Halloween Safety Alert IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / Lobster Envy / author: rocketegg It's almost that time of year again – candies, costumes and chaos! Halloween can be fun for the entire family, including the pets, if you take a few safety precautions...
6 Million U.S. Kids Deficient In Vitamin D Study Finds
Posted on October 26, 2009LEARN MORE Journal of Pediatrics – Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels Among Children – Abstract, November 2009 Nemours – Vitamin D and African American Teens, March 2009 Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D - September 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics – vitamin D Vitamin D Council NIH on vitamin D U...
FDA Warning: Scary Halloween Contact Lenses
Posted on October 26, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Warning on decorative contact lenses Video on Scary Lenses Crazy Lenses Web site IMAGE SOURCE: FDA Web site Red Eyes They make your eyes jump right into the Halloween season with a red iris or an eye-of-the-tiger look. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers that unapproved decorative contact lenses have the potential to harm your eyes...
WHO Warns Of Long-Term Cell Phone Risk
Posted on October 26, 2009LEARN MORE World Health Organization Web site CNET on SAR Cell Phone levels IB News - Low Sperm Count Correlated With High Cell Phone Use - February 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ cellphone image/ author: Mnoon In a landmark long-term study, the World Health Organization (WHO) is about to announce that long-term cell phone use is linked to a higher risk of developing brain cancer...
Novo Nordisk Funds Weight Loss Study On Liraglutide
Posted on October 23, 2009Liraglutide rival drug for weight loss, Alli LEARN MORE The Lancet – Effects of Liraglutide – Summary, October 2009 Rx List- Xenical Wikipedia- Orlistat IB Partner, Jamie Sheller, Philadelphia- Possible Liver Injury with Alli, Xenical – August 2009 IB News – Weight Loss Drug Alli Investigated For Liver Damage – August 2009 InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Help Center - on Type II Diabetes CDC on Obesity InjuryBoard News - CDC: Americans Have Packed On Pounds in 23 Years FDA – Safety Review on Orlistat IMAGE SOURCE: Alli Web site /image of Alli Novo Nordisk Study The diabetes drug, liraglutide, helps people without diabetes lose weight...
What Happened To Flight 188?
Posted on October 23, 2009LEARN MORE IB News - Rest Time For Pilots At Center of Lawsuit - January 2009 Airline Pilots Association IB Partner, Gabrielle D'Alemberte, Miami - Pilot Fatigue - FAA is taking notice - September 2009 FAA Fact Sheet - Rest times and performance FAA- Sleep and Psychomotor Performance during Commercial ultra-Long Range Flights, report, 2008 IB News - Amid Pilot Accolades, Do You Know How Much Your Pilot Makes - February 2009 IB News - Low Pay for Regional Jet Pilots - May 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ NWA A 320 upon takeoff, 2007/ author: Dylan Ashe The Missing 78 Minutes We may never know what happened to Northwest Flight 188 because its outdated cockpit-voice recorder only has 30-minutes of memory...
Consumer Protection Agency One Step Closer To Reality
Posted on October 22, 2009Consumer Financial Protection Agency LEARN MORE American Bankers Association - Take Action Now Testimony of ABA President before Congress - June 2009 U.S. Chamber - Approaches to Consumer Financial Protection IB News - The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One - April 2009 NYT - Have Banks No Shame? HR 3126 - Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Wall Street and Broadway, NYC/ author: Fletcher 6 A key Congressional panel has voted 39-29 to create a new federal agency that could protect Americans from financial abuses that have contributed to the current crisis...
Taser Maker Warns: Don't Shoot At Chest
Posted on October 22, 2009"Extremely Low" Risk of Heart Complications LEARN MORE Taser International Web site InjuryBoard Help Center - Taser Guns IMAGE SOURCE: Taser International Web site Avoid the head, neck and chest. Those are among new recommendations issued in an October 12 advisory from stun gun maker, Taser International, in response to the sudden cardiac arrest and deaths of people in police custody...
Safety Board Seeks To Address Sleep Apnea In Truckers
Posted on October 22, 2009LEARN MORE National Sleep Foundation on Sleep Apnea American Sleep Apnea Association IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / big rig/ author: Kozmoat98 Federal safety investigators are considering screening commercial bus and truck drivers, as well as merchant ship pilots for sleep apnea...
Gardasil Will Not Be Added To Vaccine Schedule For Boys
Posted on October 21, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - On HPV Vaccination Merck- Industry report ACIP IB News - FDA Approves Two HPV Vaccines - October 2009 FDA News Release - Gardasil Approval in Men, Boys - October 16, 2009 Gardasil- Package Insert FDA News Release - Cervarix Approval - October 16, 2009 Britain - Adverse Health Events Monitoring for Cervarix JAMA - on adverse events IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Gardasil vial/ author: Jan Christian Federal advisors today decided not to press for the routine use of Gardasil in boys to become part of the childhood immunization schedule to protect against genital warts caused by HPV...
Small Recall But Significant
Posted on October 21, 2009LEARN MORE Plum Organics – Recall Notice FDA - Guide for Low-Acid Juices FDA – on Colostridium botulinum IMAGE SOURCE: Plum Organics Web site This is a small recall affecting only one batch of baby food, but significant in the contaminant...
Franken Amendment Prohibits Mandatory Arbitration By Defense Contractors
Posted on October 21, 2009LEARN MORE Sen. Al Fraken (D-MN) Franken - Statement on arbitration FY 2010 - Defense Appropriations Bill KBR/Halliburton IB News – Halliburton Employee Finally Gets Attention for Rape Case – December 2007 ABC News – Video, Jones Testifies to Congress, 2007 The Jamie Leigh Foundation IMAGE SOURCE: Jamie Leigh Jones Daigle/ The Jamie Leigh Foundation Rape Case Still Not Before Jury She just wanted her day in court...
Alternative Proposed to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Posted on October 21, 2009Michael Skolnik Hospital Panels LEARN MORE American Hospital Association Center for Justice & Democracy - Critique of CBO Letter on Medical Malpractice CJD - Faces of Medical Malpractice, October 2009 Common Good IB News - Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200k Deaths A Year - August 2009 American Association for Justice IB News - How You Drive Up Health Care Costs - October 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Center for Justice & Democracy/ Victims of Medical Malpractice/ Michael Skolnik who died in 2001 from unnecessary brain surgery The American Hospital Association has been shopping a new plan to lawmakers, trying to find alternatives to tort reform that prevents Americans from finding a remedy to medical malpractice in the courtroom...
Worst, Best Cities For Asthma Sufferers
Posted on October 20, 2009St. Louis Arch, Wikimedia Commons St. Louis Tops 2009 List LEARN MORE Asthma and Allergy Foundation - the most challenging Asthma Capitals, 2009 AAFA- Eye Allergy Survey IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons, St. Louis Arch on the Mississippi River at night/ author: Daniel Schwen, January 2008 For the past six years the worst cities for asthma have been listed by the nonprofit Asthma and Allergy Foundation (AAFA)...
Merck Reveals Payment To Doctors As Part of Transparency
Posted on October 20, 2009LEARN MORE Merck – List of compensated doctors Merck – Statement on U.S. speaker fees Zimmer – List of compensated doctors Physician Payment Sunshine Act IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockPhoto/ medical money/ author: Szelmek Drug maker Merck has made a move toward 'transparency' by publishing a list Monday of its payments to doctors...
FDA Approves Two HPV Vaccines
Posted on October 19, 2009FDA Approvals LEARN MORE The Lancet – Efficacy of Human papillomavirus 16/18, PATRICIA Abstract – July 2009 FDA News Release – Gardasil Approval in Men, Boys – October 26, 2009 FDA on Gardasil – Product Information Gardasil- Package Insert FDA News Release - Cervarix Approval – October 16, 2009 Britain - Adverse Health Events Monitoring for Cervarix JAMA – on adverse events IB News – Cervarix Suspected Death of 14-year-old in UK– September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ Eric Hood The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday it has approved the expanded use of the cervical cancer drug, Gardasil, in males ages 9 through 26...
Fraudulent Flu Remedies Found On Internet
Posted on October 19, 2009LEARN MORE FDA – Buying Guide for Medicine Online FDA – on Counterfeit Drugs IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / Rx Drugs / author: pixhook Flu Fraud The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public to be aware of unapproved and illegal swine flu products purchased over the Internet...
Drug-Free Work Week
Posted on October 19, 2009LEARN MORE Drug Free Work Week Ideas for Employers and Employees Drug Free Workplace Advisor IMAGE SOURCE: © Drug Free Work Week by the U...
H1N1 Vaccine Protest Planned At CDC Headquarters
Posted on October 19, 2009Novartis Product Label, Swine Flu Vaccine The Search For Swine Flu Answers LEARN MORE CDC- Info sheet on Live nasal spray Vaccine CDC – Info sheet on inactivated Swine Flu shot CDC- Swine flu General Information CDC – Q & A on swine flu National Vaccine Information Center- Swine Flu Product Labels Moms Against Mercury Web site FDA- Swine Flu Descriptions & Ingredients FDA – Swine Flu page FDA - FDA Update on Swine Flu Formulations CSL – Package Insert Novartis – Package Insert Sanofi Pasteur – Package Insert MedImmune – Package Insert IMAGE SOURCE: Package Insert Novartis swine flu vaccine Unlike flu seasons of the past, many Americans are still on the fence about whether they will receive the H1N1 swine flu shot this season...
New Pfizer Animal Health
Posted on October 19, 2009LEARN MORE Pfizer Animal Health Pfizer Animal Health Press Release (PDF) Pfizer and Wyeth Become One IB News - Canine Cancer Drug Approved By FDA, June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: © Pfizer Animal Health Drug giant Pfizer has combined operations with Wyeth, following the closure of a $68 billion acquisition last week...
Alabama Woman Awarded $8.5M In SUV Liability Lawsuit
Posted on October 18, 2009InjuryBoard Member - Cusimano, Keener, Roberts & Raley, P.C. LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Member - Cusimano, Keener, Roberts & Raley, P.C. InjuryBoard Defective & Dangerous Products Help Center InjuryBoard Voices, Mark Bello - Alabama Rollover Verdict Sparks Debate Between Value of Human Life vs Business Life IMAGE SOURCE: © Cusimano, Keener, Roberts & Raley Web site An Alabama woman was awarded an $8...
Ford Fire Danger Recall 4.5 Million Cars
Posted on October 16, 2009LEARN MORE CBS News - Litigation Video of how cruise control switch can ignite brake fluid - 2005 NHTSA - Consumer Advisory IMAGE SOURCE: CBS News Web site, 2005 / burned Ford 150 pickup truck Old Problem New Recall The Ford Motor Company is issuing a recall for 4...
Jury Awards $2.5M In Paxil Birth Defect Case
Posted on October 16, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Paxil News Sheller P.C. Web site Sheller, P.C. Instrumental In $2.3B Pfizer Whistleblower Settlement IB Philadelphia - Paxil Birth-Defect Trial In Philadelphia, September 2009 IB Lansing - GlaxoSmithKline Admits Paxil Is Likely Linked to Birth Defects, September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/paroxetine (Paxil)/author: Tokino The first of 600 pending cases across the country that allege GlaxoSmithKline continued to promote its antidepressant Paxil while withholding evidence that it caused severe birth defects, was recently settled...
Target To Pay $600k Penalty For Lead
Posted on October 16, 2009Target Denies It Violated the Law LEARN MORE CPSC – Settlement Agreement with Target Corp. CPSC – Kool Toyz recall, 2006 IB News – Consumers May Detect Lead in Toys – December 2008 Consumer Reports - Lead Test Strips IB Help Center - Lead & Lead-Based Paints IMAGE SOURCE: CPSC Web site/ image of Kool Toyz , October 2009 Target Corp...
800,000 Doctors Warned Personal Data Stolen
Posted on October 15, 2009LEARN MORE Blue Cross Blue Shield Association IMAGE SOURCE: Blue Cross Blue Shield Web site Missing Laptop Blue Cross and Blue Shield says a laptop was stolen from a Chicago parking lot. It is warning just about every doctor in the country that this was a special laptop...
Microsoft Says It's Found Lost Sidekick Data
Posted on October 15, 2009Cloud Computing LEARN MORE Microsoft – Statement of apology to customers IMAGE SOURCE: T-Mobile Meet the new Sidekick Web site First it was lost, now it's been found...
To Flush Or Not To Flush Unused Medications?
Posted on October 15, 2009LEARN MORE SMART DISPOSAL plan- U.S. Fish and Wildlife program FDA – Safe for Flushing NIH- DailyMed information on marketed drugs FDA - Medication Disposal Q & A Fish & Wildlife- Environmental Contaminants Program Web site IMAGE SOURCE: SMARTDISPOSAL Web site It Depends On Who You Ask The FDA is concerned about those expired or unused medications that may still have a potent toxic effect, even though they are out of date...
Mattel Settles Claims Over 2007 Toy Recalls
Posted on October 15, 2009LEARN MORE Mattel Toy Recall List Mattel Settlement InjuryBoard on Mattel Recall InjuryBoard on Dangerous Toys Mattel Toy Recall IB News - Safe Toy Shopping This Holiday Season – December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © Mattel Web site Mattel Inc...
$30 Million Metrolink Settlement In Glendale Crash
Posted on October 14, 200930 Million Settlement LEARN MORE IB News - Metrolink Train Engineer Texting Before Accident Confirmed - October 2008 IB Partner, Los Angeles, Paul Kiesel - Metrolink Still Struggling with Safety Improvements - September 2009 Metrolink Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Web site/ Metrolink derailment, Glendale, 2005 The Los Angeles regional rail system, Metrolink, Wednesday agreed to pay $30 million to settle most of the remaining lawsuits that resulted from a 2005 Glendale crash that killed 11 and injured more than 180...
Big Tobacco Fights Disclosure of Low-Tar Dangers
Posted on September 30, 2009LEARN MORE U.S. Court of Appeals Brief, May 22, 2009 Friends Brief- Public Citizen, May 22, 2008 Tobacco on Trial Blog IB Partner, Lansing – Appeals Court Smokes Big Tobacco – May 2009 IB Partner, West Palm Beach, Fl John Hopkins – Light Cigarettes Sound Better – September 2006 National Cancer Institute – The Truth About Light Cigarettes Altria Group Federal Cigarette Labeling and Adverting Act InjuryBoard on Cigarettes & Tobacco InjuryBoard on PM Light Cigarette Lawsuit, 2003 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Marlboro cigarettes/ author: bachmont U...
Some Good News About Breast Cancer
Posted on September 30, 2009Some Good News About Breast Cancer LEARN MORE American Cancer Society Web Site ACS - Breast Cancer Facts & Figures Report 2009-2010 ACS – Women's Health Initiative Study, 2002 IB News – Obesity Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Survival – March 2008 IB News – Women At High Risk for Breast Cancer Not Getting Mammograms – January 2009 IB News – Study: Alcohol Consumption Raises Cancer Risk In Women – February 2009 IB News on Breast Cancer IB Help Center – Breast Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhotos / breast cancer / author: cassp The good news is that fewer women in the U...
Toyota Recall Of 3.8 Million Cars 'An Urgent Matter'
Posted on September 30, 2009Floor Mat Causes Acceleration LEARN MORE Toyota Web site NHTSA Statement on recall IB, Melbourne, Florida, Jerry Trachtman – Toyota Conspiracy to Conceal, Withhold, Destroy Evidence and Information – August 2009 IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman – Toyota Recall – February 2009 IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman – Toyota Instructs Dealers to Check Floor Mats After Horrific Car Accident – September 2009 IB News – Documents Will Remain Unsealed in Toyota Rollover Related Litigation – September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: NHTSA Web site/ image of floor mat pressing on accelerator Last August 28th, a fiery crash in the San Diego area killed four people including California Highway Patrol officer, Mark Saylor and his family...
New York State: Be Vaccinated Or Be Fired
Posted on September 29, 2009November 30 Deadline LEARN MORE PEF Action Center - Oppose Mandated Vaccination Department of Health - Letter to New Yorkers by Richard Daines, Commissioner of health, Sept. 24 AAPS - Fact Sheet on vaccine mandates IB Help Center - National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program - FAQ HHS - PREP Act Declaration IMAGE SOURCE: WABC News Web site/ images of health care workers in NY Workers in New York State say they will fight a mandate that health care professionals be vaccinated against influenza, both seasonal and the swine flu, by November 30th...
Ceravix Suspected Death of 14-Year-Old in UK
Posted on September 29, 2009LEARN MORE Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School & Music College Web site Condolences to Natalie GSK – Statement, September 29, 2009 FDA – Briefing Document on Cervarix – September 2009 IB News – Gardasil Rival Cervarix More Effective Maker Says – July 2009 FDA: Adjuvants Public Workshop, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: The Guardian UK Web site/ Image of Natalie Moore Natalie Morton The Wall Street Journal is reporting that drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSKLN) has been notified that a 14-year-old girl, Natalie Morton, died shortly after being vaccinated with the cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix...
World Rabies Day, Sept. 28
Posted on September 28, 2009LEARN MORE World Rabies Day Alliance for Rabies Control CDC on Rabies World Health Organization on Rabies Awareness InjuryBoard on Rabies IMAGE SOURCE: © World Rabies Day The mission of World Rabies Day is to promote awareness and strengthen the message that rabies is a preventable disease...
Texting Truckers Want Computers In Cab
Posted on September 28, 2009Computers In Cabs LEARN MORE Distracted Drivers Summit Web site American Trucking Association Center for Bus and Truck Safety IB Partner, Pierce Egerton, Greensboro, NC - To Text or Not To Text - September 2009 IB Partner, Rick Shapiro, Virginia Beach – on Virginia Texting Ban – September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ trucker in the fall/ author: Ktkt 1234 There is a general consensus that texting while driving is beyond the realm of safety and this week federal legislation is being considered that would force states to ban texting while driving in order to continue receiving federal highway money...
Nationwide Rail Alert Following Federal Investigation
Posted on September 28, 2009Signal Failure in Fatal DC Metrorail Collision LEARN MORE NTSB - Safety Recommendation letter to WMATA NTSB - Safety Recommendation letter to Alstom Signaling, Inc. NTSB - Safety Recommendation letter to Federal Transit Administration IB News - Older Washington D...
Another Medical Helicopter Crash Kills Three
Posted on September 28, 2009Goes Down In Thunderstorm LEARN MORE IB News - Medical Flights Raise Questions After Sixth Crash Since May - July 2008 National Transportation Safety Board Association of Air Medical Services Federal Aviation Administration IB News - NTSB Holds Public Hearings to Assess Medical Helicopter Safety - February 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: AP Web site/ NTSB investigators sort through debris, Sept...
Antidepressants In Early Pregnancy May Cause Heart Defect
Posted on September 25, 2009LEARN MORE BMJ - SSRI in Pregnancy- Abstract IB Help Center - Prozac/ fluoxetine hydrochloride IB Help Center- Antidepressants & Other Psychiatric Drugs IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Prozac pills/ author: Tom Varco SSRIs Taking antidepressants such as Prozac, early in a pregnancy may harm the health of the fetus, according to a new study...
Does Seasonal Flu Shot Double Chances Of Swine Flu?
Posted on September 25, 2009FLU SHOT STUDIES CAUSE CONCERN LEARN MORE IB News – Swine Flu Immunity Seen in Older People – May 2009 MMWR – 5/22/09 InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State CDC - Latest on swine flu WHO H1N1 News InjuryBoard News – Swine Flu Not Linked To Smithfield Foods – May, 2009 InjuryBoard News – New Head CDC To Tackle Swine Flu, Morale – May, 2009 WHO – Web site IMAGE SOURCE: World Health Organization (WHO) Members of the public health community in Canada are buzzing about a series of studies that seem to show people who got a seasonal flu shot last year are twice as likely to come down with the swine flu as those who didn't...
Fast-Tracked Medical Device Review Will Take Two Years
Posted on September 25, 2009Many Unsafe Devices Approved For Marketing Not Safety LEARN MORE FDA- Announcement Truth in Medicine FDA's 510 (k) process IB News - Suffering in Silence- Part 1 IB News - Suffering in Silence- Part 2 IB News - Suffering in Silence -Part 3 IB News - Suffering in Silence Part 4 FDA - Center for Devices and Radiological Health See a 510(k) "substantially equivalent" letter InjuryBoard- Help Center- ProteGen sling InjuryBoard, Tampa/St...
CPSC Launches Furniture and TV Tip-Over Education Campaign
Posted on September 24, 2009LEARN MORE CPSC 2.0 CPSC's New Safety Alert (pdf) CPSC OnSafety Blog – The Tipping Point Video Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital IMAGE SOURCE: © CPSC The U...
Tylenol Children's Products Recall
Posted on September 24, 2009Tylenol Recall LEARN MORE Customer Care at 1-800-962-5357 Tylenol - Lot and Product Description IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman - Tylenol Recall -September 2009 Tylenol Web site Children's Tylenol News CDC - on Burkholderia cepacia IMAGE SOURCE: Tylenol Web site/ children You have to look for the information on this recall...
'Unprecedented' Melanoma Drug Shrinks Tumors
Posted on September 24, 2009Melanomas on the left, normal moles on the right/ NCI LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - Melanoma IB Partner, John Cooper, Norfolk - Family Awarded $1.5 million for missed melanoma - August 2006 IB News - WHO Adds Tanning Beds To Highest Cancer Risk Category -July 29, 2009 IB News - Florida Proposed Ban On Tanning Beds For Teens -March 30, 2009 IB News - Gene Variant Linked to Melanoma Risk -September 23, 2008 IB Partner, Reno, Steve Klearman - Melanoma Rates Continue To Rise - August 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / National Cancer Institute and Skin Cancer Foundation/ melanomas on the left with asymmetry, ragged edges and different shades...
AIDS Breakthrough Hailed Following Large Clinical Trial
Posted on September 24, 2009LEARN MORE VaxGen Web site Sanofi- Statement on Clinical Trial AIDSVaccine Advocacy Coalition Web site Q & A about the HIV Vaccine Trial Thailand Ministry of Public Health CDC- on Collaboration between Thailand and CDC IMAGE SOURCE: CDC Page on its collaboration with Thailand Breakthrough Scientists are always reluctant to use the word "breakthrough" but that is what an experimental AIDS vaccine is being called as a result of the largest ever HIV vaccine clinical trial ever held...
Wal-Mart Sued By Couple Accused Of Child Exploitation Over Bath Photos
Posted on September 23, 2009LEARN MORE Peoria, Arizona Web site "Good Morning America" - broadcast segment Child Welfare Information Gateway- Child Abuse reporting laws IMAGE SOURCE: ABC News - Good Morning America Web site,/ bath time photos, September 21, 2009 Bath Time Photos- Obscene? A couple is suing Wal-Mart after an employee there turned in bath time photos at the photo lab, calling them obscene...
Ban On Text Messaging Supported By Major Automakers
Posted on September 23, 2009LEARN MORE Distracted Driving Summit Auto Alliance Supports Ban on Hand-Held Text Messaging InjuryBoard on Texting IB News - Teens Texting Hurts Sleep, Maturity, May 2009 IB News - Study: Teens Ignoring Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving, June 2008 IB News - Driving While Texting Laws Slow To Catch Up To Problem, Sept...
OxyContin Maker Says New Formula Offers Less Chance of Abuse
Posted on September 23, 2009OxyContin LEARN MORE Package Insert - OxyContin FDA - Announcement of Joint Meeting over OxyContin, September 24, 2009 Monitoring the Future: National Results on Adolescent Drug Use U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse Injuryboard - Vicodin Help Center IB Help Center - OxyContin IB News - Prescription Drugs Easier For Teens To Get Than Beer IB News - Middle Class White Teens Abusing Vicodin OxyContin- December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: A Mothers Against Medical Abuse Web site/ billboard honoring Elliott Matos who died from OxyContin The maker of the painkiller, OxyContin has applied to the Food and Drug Administration to reformulate the pill to reduce the chances of misuse or abuse...
Sen. Grassley Inquiry - Academic Doctors And Device Makers Who Love Them
Posted on September 23, 2009LEARN MORE Columbia University- Policy on Financial Conflicts of Interest and Research, July 2009 Schweitzer Health News Blog on Dr. Polly Sen. Grassley web site Physician Payment Sunshine Act IB News - Reports on Medical Conflict-of-Interest IB News – Harvard Psychiatrists Under Fire – June 2008 Dr...
YMCA - America On The Move Week
Posted on September 23, 2009You can be healthy. It starts with two simple steps. LEARN MORE Find a YMCA Participating in America On the Move Week 100 Ways to Add 2,000 Steps (pdf) 100 Ways to Eat Healthier (pdf) InjuryBoard Healthy Living News IB News - CDC: Most Americans Miss Exercise Goals, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © YMCA It's not too late to join America On The Move Week with the YMCA, a nationwide event that aims at inspiring families and individuals to incorporate healthy activities into their everyday daily routines...
Father Finds Family Loss Is A '250 Case'
Posted on September 22, 2009Ryan Volkmuth, San Francisco Chronicle A 250 Case LEARN MORE Californians Allied for Patient Protection HR 3200- Health Care reform 2009 Consumer Watchdog The Committee for Justice for All- Med Mal - Just the Facts "How Insurance Reform Lowered Doctors Med Mal Rates in California", 2003 report from The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights National Association of State Legislatures IMAGE SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle Web site/ image of Ryan Volkmuth It's a term lawyers understand more than the general public, unless they've been injured...
Sheller, P.C. Instrumental In $2.3B Pfizer Whistleblower Settlement
Posted on September 22, 2009LEARN MORE Sheller Press Release 2005 FDA Warning Letter to Pfizer $2.3B Pfizer Whistleblower Settlement: Video Sheller P...
FDA Flexing Its Muscle Over Tobacco
Posted on September 22, 2009LEARN MORE FDA – News release on fruit flavored cigarette ban FDA Page on Tobacco Products InjuryBoard Help Center- Cigarettes & Tobacco IB Partner, Mobile, Pete Mackey – Big Tobacco Sued By One Of Its Own – February 2009 IB Partner, Gerry McGill – A Special Place In Hell For Tobacco Executives – June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Web site / Product images: Pleasure to Burn, Margarita Mixer, Beach Breezer In the first move since the Food and Drug Administration took over regulating tobacco products last June, the agency has announced a ban on cigarettes that are flavored with cloves, vanilla, and fruit flavors...
Trouble With Finances May Forecast Memory Problems
Posted on September 22, 2009Looking For The Signs LEARN MORE Archives of Neurology – Abstract ActionAlz.org Alzheimer's Association World Alzheimer's Day InjuryBoard on Alzheimer's and Dementia Lawyer Assessment of client capacity Nature Genetics, September 2009 InjuryBoard on Alzheimer's Disease IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / close up render of neuron brain cell / author: Henrik5000 New research shows that trouble balancing a check book or figuring out change could be an early indicator of memory problems...
Documents Will Remain Unsealed In Toyota Rollover Related Litigation
Posted on September 21, 2009LEARN MORE * Center for Auto Safety Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Litigation Discovery and Trial Consulting Website 15 Lawsuits Reopened Documents that allege Toyota hid and destroyed evidence in numerous rollover lawsuits will stay open and not be sealed...
The Soaring Pace of Alzheimer's On World Alzheimer's Day
Posted on September 21, 2009September 21 - World Alzheimer's Day LEARN MORE Alzheimer's Association - What is Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer's Disease International Web site World Alzheimer's Day 2009 World Alzheimer's Report The Paris Declaration - Making Alzheimer's research a priority IB News - Researchers Uncover More Alzheimer's Genes - October 2008 Alzheimer's Genome Project National Institute on Aging IB News - Alzheimer's Therapy Acts Within Minutes - January 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockphoto/ Alzheimer's dad/ author: JJRD On this, World Alzheimer's Day, the theme is "Diagnosing Dementia: See It Sooner" - recognizing the symptoms and getting immediate treatment...
Recalled Salmonella Spinach Sent To Dozen States, Canada
Posted on September 21, 2009Salinas Spinach LEARN MORE FDA Recall Press Release Cornell University - Salmonella, where does it come from IB News - Salmonella Victim Speaks Out - January 2009 FDA Salmonella Web page CDC on salmonella outbreak IB News- King Nut Peanut Butter Contamination - January 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Salmonella Poisoning IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ spinach/ author: Nillerdk Two brands of bunched spinach from California have tested positive for the bacteria, salmonella...
Most Girls Don't Finish Gardasil Three-Shot Series
Posted on September 18, 2009LEARN MORE CDC- HPV Facts CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report IB News - FDA Adverse Reactions To Gardasil Made Public - July 2008 IB News - Expanded Use of Gardasil Approved by the FDA September 2008 IB News - Did Gardasil Vaccine Cause a 12-yr-old Girl's Paralysis? November 2007 IB News - HPV Vaccine Gardasil Linked to Three Deaths July 2007 IB News - One Year Anniversary of the Approval of Gardasil, June 2007 National Vaccine Information Center IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Gardasil poster at school clinic/ author: Eugene Peretz One In Three Vaccinated The numbers are in on the popularity of the cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil...
45,000 People Die Annually From Lack Of Insurance Study Finds
Posted on September 18, 200944,789 Deaths LEARN MORE AJPH – Abstract – 'Health Insurance and Morality in US Adults' – September 2009 America's Health Insurance Plans RAM schedule for 2009 IB News – Free Health Care Draws Thousands As Nation Debates Need – August 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Web site/ waiting outside the Forum before dawn Simply lacking health insurance can raise the risk of dying by 40 percent...
Diana Levine Drug Gets Black Box Warning
Posted on September 17, 2009Dangerous Drug Will Carry Warning LEARN MORE FDA - Black Box Warning on Promethazine Hydrochloride IB News – Wyeth Take Levine Issue To High Court – August 2008 IB News – Diana Levine Before the High Court This Morning – November 2008 'Access Denied' – Film on Diana Levine Case and Federal Preemption Wyeth brief Levine Brief to U...
FDA Warns About Eyelash Enhancer Claims
Posted on September 17, 2009LEARN MORE FDA 2009 Warning Letters Latisse Allergan Inc. Allergan Outlook for 2009 IB News – FDA Approves Latisse – December 2008 FDA Brief on Latisse Latisse Product Information Allergan News on Latisse FDA on Lumigan Glaucoma Drug May Become Desirable Cosmetic IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ thick eyelashes/ author: Chameleon The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Thursday warned Allergan Inc...
Sen. Baucus Plan - No Public Option
Posted on September 17, 2009LEARN MORE Health Reform 2009 - Senate Finance Chair, Baucus Call To Action- Sen. Baucus November 2008 Call To Action- Sen. Baucus 2009 America's Health Insurance Plans Web site Kaiser Family Foundation IMAGE SOURCE: Sen. Baucus/ Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana) Web site After weeks of trying to win over Republicans, Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus, (D-Montana) has revealed "The Baucus Plan" for reforming health care in America...
Washington State Compiling List Of Chemicals Most Toxic To Children
Posted on September 17, 2009LEARN MORE The Children's Safe Product Act of 2008 HealthyStuff.org Safer Chemicals, Safer Family HealthyToys: The Consumer Guide to Chemicals in Toys InjuryBoard on Dangerous Toys IB News, High Levels of Chemicals Found In Children's Toys, Dec...
Swayze Lived Longer Than Most With Pancreatic Cancer
Posted on September 16, 2009Five Months LEARN MORE Mayo Clinic on Pancreatic Cancer NIH study - Dietary Fatty Acids and Pancreatic Cancer, July 2009 Cancer Research UK Web site Good Morning America- Swayze video clip American Association For Cancer Research - Vitamin D research Public Library of Science- A Compendium of Potential Biomarkers of Pancreatic Cancer, April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ABC News Web site / Patrick Swayze, smoker Actor, dancer, Patrick Swayze lived longer than most who receive a pancreatic cancer diagnosis...
What Is Pilot Fatigue? New Rules Considered
Posted on September 16, 2009Crew and Pilot Rest LEARN MORE FAA Fact Sheet - Rest times and performance FAA- Sleep and Psychomotor Performance during Commercial ultra-Long Range Flights, report, 2008 IB News – Amid Pilot Accolades, Do You Know How Much Your Pilot Makes – February 2009 IB News – Low Pay for Regional Jet Pilots – May 2009 IB Partner – King Co...
Women May Not Benefit From Implantable Defibrillators, Study Says
Posted on September 16, 2009Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator LEARN MORE Archives of Internal Medicine Overview: Heart Rhythm Devices, Pacemakers and Defibrillators InjuryBoard on Heart Devices Medline Plus - Heart Disease in Women IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are not effective in women...
Tort Reform Challenges By Injured In Georgia, Indiana
Posted on September 16, 2009LEARN MORE Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution American Association for Justice - Tort Reform U.S. Chamber of Commerce – Tort Reform IMAGE SOURCE: Georgia Supreme Court Web site Georgia A case before the Georgia Supreme Court should determine whether juries have the right to decide what monetary award should be given an injured patient, without that decision automatically revised and reduced...
Swine Flu Vaccines Ready Ahead Of Schedule
Posted on September 15, 2009LEARN MORE FDA - H1N1 Vaccine CDC on Thimerosal formulation IB News - Should You Get a Flu Shot? - October 2009 IB News - Will Swine Flu Vaccine Be Hurt Over Thimerosal - August 2009 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg - Institute of Vaccine Safety The Lancet - H1N1 and Pregnancy - August 2009 CDC-Page on swine flu National Vaccine Information Center on H1N1 shots IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ flu shot/ author: pressdigital Four Companies Receive Approval The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the applications from four vaccine makers, according to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius...
EPA Not Looking At Recycled Tires In Playgrounds
Posted on September 15, 2009Tire Crumb Controversy LEARN MORE CDC – report on cancer cases at Mercer Rubber Company site Center for Environmental Health – Lead in Children's products CEH Report- 'Not Really Greener' January, 2008 Memo- EPA scientists Region 8 about Tire Crumb June 2008 – Power point presentation on tire crumb September 2009 – EPA says not conducting research PEER Web site Philadelphia Inquirer – June 2009 – 'Breathing Easier…' IMAGE SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer Web site/ playing fields in New Jersey closed Every year millions of pounds of tires are recycled into and placed on playgrounds to form a soft cushiony place for children to romp when they jump off the swing or land from a slide and a way to recycle old, used tires...
Is Dangerous Bacteria Lurking In Your Showerhead?
Posted on September 15, 2009LEARN MORE PNAS Early Edition IB News, Vinyl Shower Curtains Contain Potentially Toxic Chemicals, June 2008 InjuryBoard on Bacteria and Fungus IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / shower and water / author: Kickers Bacteria are all around us – in the air we breathe, on our skin and on the surfaces we touch, but most don't harm us...
Metformin May Help Fight Cancer
Posted on September 15, 2009LEARN MORE American Association for Cancer Research- Abstract Glucophage – metformin hydrochloride tablets Bristol Myers Squibb IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Metformin tablets/ author: Ashley Van Haeflen May Starve Cancer The drug, metformin, is the number one choice for treating diabetes...
Fosamax Mistrial Hinged On Juror No. 5
Posted on September 14, 2009Juror No. 5 LEARN MORE Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Eshsner & Proctor, PA, Pensacola, Fl National Osteoporosis Foundation Web site NOF on Jaw Necrosis NOF on Osteoporosis Facts IB News – Osteoporosis Treatment Controversy – August 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ Shirley Boles, first Fosamax plaintiff Merck and Co...
Chlorinated Pools And The Epidemic Of Allergies
Posted on September 14, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics - Impact of Chlorinated Swimming Pools – September 2009 Pediatrics - Bernard on Allergies and Chlorine – 2007 InjuryBoard Help Center – Asthma Drugs IB News – Boys More Likely To Outgrow Asthma Than Girls – August 2008 InjuryBoard on Asthma Asthma News IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ young swimmers/ author: Spiderstock A new study is adding to the suspicion that chlorine in pools may make a child more susceptible to asthma and allergies...
Swine Flu Goes To College
Posted on September 14, 200972 Percent Of Schools Report Cases LEARN MORE CDC Swine Flu Web site ACHA - News on Flu ACHA – Guidelines: Campus Response to Novel Influenza H1N1 InjuryBoard Swine Flu News IB News – Swine Flu Officially a Pandemic – June 2009 Video on Handwashing IMAGE SOURCE: iStock photo/ handwashing Flu has come early in the season to college campuses...
Study - MRSA Found At Public Beaches
Posted on September 13, 2009LEARN MORE IB News, Fluffy And Fido May Be Harboring MRSA, June 2009 CDC on MRSA MRSA Education Initiative InjuryBoard News on MRSA InjuryBoard Help Center on Infections InjuryBoard on MRSA Help Center IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / Washington Coast / author: Wheninusa Serious infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria were found on nine beaches along the coast of Washington State, say scientists...
Obama's Medical Malpractice Solution
Posted on September 11, 2009Curbing lawsuits LEARN MORE AAJ Web site Pop Tort Blog Journal of Law & Policy - The Racial Implications of Tort Reform, on tort reform American Tort Reform Association- Judicial Hellholes 2008-2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Pop Tort Blog / pop tarts Now that the dust is settling on Wednesday night's speech to Congress about health reform, CNN, among others, is taking a look at what President Obama meant by tackling medical malpractice...
Gardasil for Boys?
Posted on September 11, 2009Penile Cancers Rare LEARN MORE CDC on HPV JAMA – Marketing HPV Vaccine -August 2009 CDC - on Adverse Events HPV Vaccine IB News – Merck's Gardasil for Boys? – September 2009 IB News – Gardasil Rival Ceravix More Effective, Maker Says – July 2009 IB News - Expanded Use of Gardasil Approved by the FDA , September 2008 IB News - Did Gardasil Vaccine Cause a 12-yr-old Girl's Paralysis, November 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ romantic couple An FDA panel looking at the efficacy and safety of giving boys the vaccine, Gardasil, advises a 'wait and see' approach until more evidence is in...
Will Illegal Immigrants Benefit From Health Reform?
Posted on September 11, 2009Sorting Out the Illegal Immigrant Issue LEARN MORE H.R. 3200, July 2009 FactCheck – Seven Falsehoods About Health Care, August 2009 IB News - Luis Jimenez Jury Sides With Hospital – July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: So Florida Sun Sentinel Web site/ image of Luis Jimenez In an attempt to counter claims that waves of undocumented illegal immigrants would flood the U...
How Did He Do? Insurance and Tort Reform (Part 2)
Posted on September 10, 2009IB News - How Did He Do?- (Part 1) Insurance Not Hurt LEARN MORE IB News - How Did He Do?- (Part 1) InjuryBoard, Cleveland - Spangenberg Shibley & Liber, on Medical Malpractice The Center for Justice & Democracy AAJ Americas Health Insurance Plans President Barack Obama- Address to Congress on Health Care Reform, September 9, 2009 Tort Reform, Lone Star Style – Southern Exposure, 2004 IB Partner, Mike Ferrara, Cherry Hill, New Jersey – Texas Tort Reform is STILL NOT a Model for Nationwide Health Care Reform – September 2009 State-By-State - Report on medical errors Institute of Medicine- on medical errors Hearst – 'Death By Mistake' special report on medical malpractice, August 2009 IB News - Health Reform Starts With Avoiding Medical Errors – August 2009 IB News – Bad Doctors Going Undisciplined – April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Obama, Biden, Pelosi/ Fox News Web site Mr...
How Did He Do? Uninsured Numbers Out
Posted on September 10, 2009Rep. Wilson Web Site Down LEARN MORE Part 2 - Insurance and Tort Reform The Institute for Southern Studies on Rep...
Experimental Obesity Drug Shows Promise
Posted on September 10, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Obesity CDC on Obesity InjuryBoard Fen-Phen Help Center FDA on Fen-Phen IB News - Obesity Drug With Promise Includes Fen-Phen Ingredient, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © Qnexa, made by Vivus Inc...
11th Hour Health Care Reform
Posted on September 09, 2009President Obama and Bo, the family dog Obama and Critics From All Sides LEARN MORE Framework for Comprehensive Health Reform IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Obama and Bo, if you want a friend get a dog/ author: White House.gov In recent weeks, President Obama has said that he still supports a "public option" that would offer government supported health insurance as a key to health care reform, but he has waivered on calling it essential element of health care reform...
A New Way Of Looking At ADHD
Posted on September 09, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA – Abstract on study IB News – Teens Abusing ADHD Drugs – August 2009 IB News – Do ADHD Drugs Improve School Scores? – April 2009 National Institute on Mental Health – on ADHD Pediatrics – Positive Association ADHD Drugs and Test Scores - Abstract May 2009 Generation Rx - Amazon InjuryBoard News – Harvard Psychiatrists Under Fire, June, 2008 Multimodal Treatment Study of children with ADHD IMAGE SOURCE: Drug company logo/ Kevin Miller's World blog Not Willful Defiance A published study finds that people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) lack certain key proteins that allow them to experience a sense of reward and motivation...
New Plan Proposes Fines For Not Having Health Insurance
Posted on September 09, 2009LEARN MORE Framework for Comprehensive Health Reform (pdf) InjuryBoard on Health Care Reform IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockphoto / Global healthcare/ author: gmutlu Americans could be hit with hefty fines for failing to buy health insurance under a new plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday...
The Dangers of Plaque
Posted on September 09, 2009Healthy Mouth - Healthy Body LEARN MORE National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research - on Periodontal Disease Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Roswell Park Cancer Institute IB News - Dental Prevention Treatment Suggest For Those On Bone-Loss Drugs - January 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ flossing/ author: Walter Siegmund Advanced gum disease may raise your risk of head and neck cancer...
Is prostate cancer caused by a virus?
Posted on September 08, 2009Virus and Aggressive Prostate Cancer LEARN MORE PNAS Web site IB News - Prostate Cancer, Overdiagnosed, Overtreated - September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Db Techno Web site This is the first time a virus has been linked to the most aggressive form of prostate cancer...
FDA Database Should Speed Contaminated Food Reporting
Posted on September 08, 2009LEARN MORE The RFR Guidance FDA: How To Report IB News - Liability Lawsuits and Peanut Butter Paste - January 2009 IB News - E. Coli Beef Recall - May 2009 IB Help Center - E. Coli IB News - Deadly E. Coli Cookie Dough Has Woman Near Death - September 2009 CDC Web page- Salmonella InjuryBoard- Regional News, Orlando, Product liability laws, January 25, 2009 InjuryBoard- Regional News, Atlanta, Peanut butter lawsuit, January 24, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Peanut butter in jar Keep Contaminated Food Out of Stores In order to move more quickly on reports of contaminated food, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today unveiled a new electronic database, the Reportable Food Registry (RFR)...
Alzheimer's Genes Found Cure Still Far Away
Posted on September 08, 2009Three New Genes Found LEARN MORE Dr. Jui Shen - Bio at Harvard Alzheimer Research Formal - on Presenilin research Neurology, Sept. 8, 2009 (subscription) Nature Genetics, September 2009 InjuryBoard on Alzheimer's Disease IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / close up render of neuron brain cell / author: Henrik5000 Three new genetic variations have been found to be associated with Alzheimer's disease...
Merck's Gardasil For Boys?
Posted on September 04, 2009Gardasil for Boys? LEARN MORE IB News – Gardasil Rival Ceravix More Effective, Maker Says – July 2009 InjuryBoard Help Page - Gardasil IB News - Expanded Use of Gardasil Approved by the FDA September 2008 IB News - Did Gardasil Vaccine Cause a 12-yr-old Girl's Paralysis November 2007 IB News - HPV Vaccine Gardasil Linked to Three Deaths July 2007 The British Medical Journal- The Lancet, July 7, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: © ©iStockphoto/ girl being vaccinated/ author: pflorendo Merck would love to expand use of the cervical cancer drug, Gardasil, to include boys and young men...
Deep Fried Butter And Other Texas State Fair Fried Fare
Posted on September 04, 2009Rebel Without A Healthy Cause LEARN MORE FDA on labeling Trans fats IB News on Acrylamide Lawsuit, August 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: MSNBC Web site / fried butter Oreos move over. Deep-fried butter will be among the not-so-healthy fare dished up at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in late September...
Cardinals Immune From Flying Bat Injuries
Posted on September 04, 2009Crying Foul LEARN MORE IB Partner, Greg Webb - Maple Bats Growing Threat At Baseball Parks - August 2008 Elie v. City of New York, IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia commons/ Keyspan Park/ author: Wally Gobetz You go to the game expecting to see some baseball, enjoy the sunshine, and maybe a hot dog...
Pediatricians Most Satisfied With Chosen Profession
Posted on September 04, 2009LEARN MORE Journal of the American Medical Association Snapshot of U.S. Physicians, 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto/ doctor taking notes/ author: sstop Which doctors are the most satisfied with their chosen profession? Pediatricians, according to a survey released Thursday...
Jurors Deliberate The Future of Merck's Fosamax
Posted on September 03, 2009LEARN MORE IB - Fosamax Help Center IB News – First Fosamax Trial Slated for Today – August 2009 InjuryBoard Fosamax News InjuryBoard on Fosamax WebMD on Bisphosphonate Drugs InjuryBoard on Bone, Joint & Muscle Disorders Center for Osteonecrosis Research & Education FosaMax Insert Bisphosphonates Safety Review 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: © Fosamax Web site Fosamax, the osteoporosis drug, is on trial...
Man Overboard Carnival Cruise Liner Rescued By Disney
Posted on September 03, 2009LEARN MORE Cruise Junkie Home page Who is Ross Klein and articles about cruising Holland America Web site Cruise Bruise IB News - Death at Sea - June 2008 IB News- What Consumers Need to Know Before They Cruise - June 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: WPTV- TV, West Palm Beach Web Site/ Carnival Sensation Did He Fall? A Disney cruise ship came to the rescue of a man who fell overboard from a Carnival ship in the Atlantic early Thursday morning...
How Communities Can Help Fight Widening Waistlines
Posted on September 03, 2009Taxing Sweet Drinks To Fight Obesity LEARN MORE National Institute of Medicine report CDC on obesity CDC on BMI Calculate Your BMI IMAGE SOURCE: Calculate your child's BMI, CDC It worked with tobacco. When taxes were increased on cigarettes it cut down on tobacco use...
Repeat Offender Pfizer Pays Record $2.3 Billion Fraud Settlement
Posted on September 02, 2009LEARN MORE Pfizer Web site IB News – Pfizer $900 Million Celebrex Bextra Settlement – October 2008 InjuryBoard on Celebrex InjuryBoard on Bextra InjuryBoard on Pfizer litigation Video announcing settlement IMAGE SOURCE: Pfizer Web site Pay Doctors, Defraud Medicare Ritzy resorts...
Toyota Whistleblower Complaint May Open Rollover Cases
Posted on September 02, 2009LEARN MORE IB, Melbourne, Florida, Jerry Trachtman - Toyota Conspiracy to Conceal, Withhold, Destroy Evidence and Information - August 2009 IB, Lansing, David Mittleman - Toyota Recall - February 2009 Federal dockets IMAGE SOURCE: Consumerist Web site/ Toyota logo Destroyed Evidence? Dimitrios Biller was a lawyer working for Toyota, the world's largest automaker...
Making Emergency Medical Helicopters Safer After Disasterous 2008
Posted on September 02, 2009LEARN MORE IB News – Medical Flights Raise Questions After Sixth Crash Since May – July 2008 National Transportation Safety Board Association of Air Medical Services Federal Aviation Administration IB News – NTSB Holds Public Hearings to Assess Medical Helicopter Safety – February 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ Air Evac / author: © MarcoCoda Install New Systems, Increase Training The federal government is looking at ways to make emergency medical helicopters safer after 2008, the worse year in emergency medical helicopters history, that left 29 dead in medical helicopter crashes...
Deadly E. Coli Cookie Dough Has Woman Near Death
Posted on September 01, 2009Hospitalized Woman Extremely Critical LEARN MORE CDC - on E. coli bacterium InjuryBoard News – First Contaminated Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough Lawsuit – June 2009 InjuryBoard News – Nestle Toll House Recall – June 2009 InjuryBoard News – E...
Exploding DVD Player Recall
Posted on September 01, 2009LEARN MORE U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Recall Notice Wal-Mart – Product Recalls IMAGE SOURCE: CPSC Recall Notice on Durabrand DVD Players They are sold in discount retailer, Wal-Mart for as little as $29...
RJ Reynolds And Others Suing Over New Tobacco Law
Posted on September 01, 2009LEARN MORE RJ Reynolds Press Release (pdf) Injuryboard Help Center on Cigarettes and Tobacco InjuryBoard News on Cigarettes CDC on Smoking & Tobacco Use American Cancer Society Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act IMAGE SOURCE: © RJ Reynolds Website R...
Prostate Cancer - Overdiagnosed, Overtreated Study Finds
Posted on September 01, 2009LEARN MORE Journal of Clinical Oncology Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Abstract of study IB Help Center - Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Errors InjuryBoard on Prostate Cancer Annals of Internal Medicine American Cancer Society on Prostate Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: © WikiMedia Commons/ Created by US government agency National Cancer Institute PSA Test A new study suggests that mass screening for prostate cancer has done more harm than good...
Cocaine Tainted With Animal De-Wormer Sickens Dozens, Kills Three
Posted on August 31, 2009LEARN MORE MD Consult preview - Annals of Internal Medicine on levamisole Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center Web site DEA on levamisole IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ cocaine powder/ author: U.S. Federal Government May Affect One-Third of U...
Chrysler Reverses Itself - Injured Still Left Out of Liability Claims
Posted on August 31, 2009LEARN MORE Chrysler statement, August 27, 2009 Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli -Testimony in bankruptcy hearing Center for Justice & Democracy - Victim Cases Wiped Out report IB News - Injured Ask FTC for Warning on used Chrysler Cars - August 2009 Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli -Testimony in bankruptcy hearing Bradley Catalano l- Letter to Chrysler's Board of Directors IMAGE SOURCE: Chrysler protest Web site The Chrysler Group LLC has reversed itself...
Plavix Facing New Rival Blood Thinner
Posted on August 31, 2009LEARN MORE European Society of Cardiology Web site NEJM - Abstract Injuryboard Help Center on Plavix Injuryboard Regional News, Dallas, New Concerns With Plavix, March 2006 FDA notice IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ box of Plavix/ author: Trounce Plavix may soon have a rival as an approved blood thinner...
Soluble Fiber Soothes Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Study Finds
Posted on August 28, 2009LEARN MORE BMJ, Aug. 2009 Metamucil Web site WebMD on Irritable Bowel Syndrome U.S. National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse IMAGE SOURCE: © Metamucil Fiber People that suffer from abdominal pain and discomfort associated with irritable bowel syndrome may find relief with Psyllium, the soluble fiber in Metamucil and other such products...
Feelings Of Hopelessness Raise Stroke Risk In Women
Posted on August 28, 2009LEARN MORE journal Stroke AHA - Women, Heart Disease and Stroke InjuryBoard on Stroke National Stroke Association IMAGE SOURCE: © National Stroke Association Web site Women who are otherwise healthy but suffer from feelings of hopelessness are at a higher risk of suffering a stroke, finds a new study in the journal Stroke...
Wii Hab - Latest Therapy Out of the Box - IB Members Give Back
Posted on August 27, 2009Burns, Cunningham, & Mackey, firm donates Wii *Editors Note * During August, 54 law firms belonging to InjuryBoard banded together to donate more than 70 Nintendo Wii gaming systems to rehabilitation centers, nursing homes and hospitals across the U...
CPSC Warns Of Faulty Stadium Light Poles
Posted on August 27, 2009LEARN MORE CPSC Alert InjuryBoard Help Center - Defective and Dangerous Products IMAGE SOURCE: © U...
Shouting Fire - Elderly Fear Health Overhaul (Part 2)
Posted on August 27, 2009Media Fuels Fears LEARN MORE Pew Research - on News Consumption, 2004 Media Matters – on Fox & Friends on Limited Options Myths, Dr. Frank Luntz - The Language of Healthcare - 2009 IB News – Shouting Fire- Health Care Debate Squelched by Fear Mongers (Part 1) – August 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Fox & Friends, August 7, 2009/ Media Matters Web site 'It's a form of eugenics,' says Fox News medical contributor, Dr...
Common Brain Cancer Kills Sen. Ted Kennedy, 77
Posted on August 26, 2009Sen. Edward Kennedy LEARN MORE Kennedy's office Web site CNN- Q & A on Brain Surgery Mayo Clinic on Gliomas Treatment Strategies for Malignant Gliomas report - Mass. General Hospital, 1999 American Cancer Society - Statement on the death of Sen...
Injured Ask FTC For Warning on Used Chrysler Cars
Posted on August 25, 2009Lilly Stellanger, died in Chrysler vehicle, April 2007 LEARN MORE Center for Justice & Democracy Web site Petition to FTC 1996 Dodge Caravan video Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli -Testimony in bankruptcy hearing IMAGE SOURCE: Skull Crossbones on letter of Patricia Robb Warriner to Chrysler IMAGE SOURCE: Lily Stellanger, killed when front seat of Chrysler car collapsed backward on her head in rear-end collision, April 2007, Center for Justice & Democracy report IMAGE SOURCE: Scott M...
Weight Loss Drug Alli Investigated For Liver Damage
Posted on August 25, 2009Alli And Xenical LEARN MORE Alli Web site Public Citizen 2006, Petition on Xenical FDA – Safety Review on Orlistat IB Des Moines, Megan Roth, Alli v Orlistat, January 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Alli Web site /image of Alli The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether the over-the-counter (OTC) weight loss drug, orlistat (as Alli), and by prescription, (as Xenical) can cause liver damage...
Swine Flu Predictions 1.8 Million Hospitalized
Posted on August 25, 2009LEARN MORE PCAST - Full report on H1N1 IB News - Swine Flu Immunity Seen in Older People - May 2009 IB News - Will Swine Flu Vaccine Be Hurt Over Thimerosal - August 2009 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg - Institute of Vaccine Safety The Lancet - H1N1 and Pregnancy - August 2009 CDC-Page on swine flu National Vaccine Information Center GSK- July press release IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ flu shot/ author: pressdigital Mid-October The U...
Does Testosterone Influence A Woman's Career Choice?
Posted on August 25, 2009LEARN MORE PNAS, August 2009 ForbesWoman IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockphoto / author: aldomurillo A new study finds women with higher levels of testosterone are more likely to pursue financially riskier careers and make riskier decisions...
AHA Recommends Curbing Sugar Intake
Posted on August 25, 2009LEARN MORE Circulation – Journal of the American Heart Association, August 2009 Sugar Association Response to AHA IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockphoto / author: FuatKose Now is the time to say no to your sweet tooth and curb your sugar intake, the American Heart Association (AHA) said in a recommendation likely to rile food and beverage companies...
Teens Abusing ADHD Drugs - Poison Control Center Calls Rose 76 Percent
Posted on August 24, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics - ADHD Medication Abuse – August 2009 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center IB News – Rare Deaths Linked to ADHD drugs – June 2009 National Institute on Drug Abuse – on stimulant medications IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ pencil case & drugs/ author: TACrafts Getting Drugs From Friends Teens are abusing drugs prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to researchers who surveyed calls coming into poison control centers over a seven-year period...
Schools Are Front Line In Swine Flu Fight
Posted on August 24, 2009First Day of School LEARN MORE Video on Handwashing CDC- on H1N1 InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State WHO H1N1 News IB News – Swine Flu Officially a Pandemic – June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Swine Flu in Hong Kong/ New York Times Web site With all eyes on the first day of school, federal health officials are eyeing the schoolyard as the incubation point for the swine flu this fall...
Michael Jackson - Lethal Levels Of The Drug Propofol
Posted on August 24, 2009Lethal Levels of Propofol LEARN MORE Smoking Gun - Statement of Probable Cause IB, Philadelphia, Jamie Sheller - Diprivan May Get Tighter DEA Restrictions - July 2009 IB News - Doctors Discuss Dangers of Diprivan - July 2009 IB News - Family Lawyer Blames Medication Abuse For Jackson Death - June 2009 National Institute on Drug Abuse Injuryboard on prescription drug deaths IMAGE SOURCE: CNN/ Michael Jackson/ Web site The preliminary coroner findings unsealed Monday show that singer Michael Jackson's death two months ago, was caused by "lethal levels of propofol...
Addicted To The Internet? There Is Help
Posted on August 21, 2009reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program LEARN MORE reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program Internet Addiction Test IB News, OMG - Are U Addicted to Texting? March 2008 IB News, Pathological Video Gaming Affects One In Ten Youth, April 2009 InjuryBoard on Addiction Treatment IMAGE SOURCE: © Heavensfield Treatment Center, Home of the reStart Recovery Program Social Web sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter have made it easier than ever before to become addicted to the web...
Many Over 50 Are Binge Drinkers
Posted on August 21, 2009Binge Drinking Affects All Ages LEARN MORE American Journal of Psychiatry - Abstract NSDUH - Frequently asked questions IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ senior pensioner having a pint/ author: BCFC We don't usually associate binge drinking, that is guzzling large quantities of alcoholic beverages in one sitting, with older people...
FDA - Ibuprofen Pain Relief Gels Are Unproven
Posted on August 21, 2009LEARN MORE FDA - Warning letters, August 15 2009 FDA News Release, August 20, 2009 Letter to Progressive Emu InjuryBoard, West Palm Beach, Armand Rossetti - Zicam Nasal Gel - June 2009 IB News - Harvard Heavyweights To Head FDA - March 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: FDA Logo A new tougher Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing another crackdown - this time on creams that claim to relieve pain because they contain ibuprofen, among other active ingredients...
New FDA Tobacco Unit Expects First Challenge
Posted on August 20, 2009LEARN MORE Dr. Lawrence R. Deyton, from New York Times H.R. 1256 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids InjuryBoard Tobacco News InjuryBoard on Cigarettes and Tobacco Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act IB Partner, Gerry McGill, A Special Place in Hell for Tobacco Excecutives IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / quit smoking / author: RobHadfield FDA Regulates Tobacco Dr...
Holiday Crackdown On Drinkers, Especially Women
Posted on August 20, 2009Impaired Driving National Enforcement Crackdown Aug 21 - Sep 7, 2009 LEARN MORE 2009 Impaired Driving National Enforcement Crackdown MADD - Web site IB News – Wrong-Way Mom Drove Drunk, Stoned – August 2009 IB News – Women DUIs Are Up – August 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Drunk Driving Accidents NHTSA Web site IMAGE SOURCE: © 2009 Impaired Driving National Enforcement Crackdown Women are involved in about 2,000 alcohol-related deaths each year...
Oprah, Dr. Oz Sue Marketers Over Acai Berry Claims
Posted on August 20, 2009LEARN MORE Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan Web site Crush LLC - Complaint Advanced Wellness - Complaint CSPI Web site CSPI - Nutrition Action Health Letter IMAGE SOURCE: Acai Berry Free Trial Web site As Seen On Oprah They are the magic words - "As Seen on Oprah" - that are guarantee to sell any product, from books to face creams...
Life Expectancy Now Higher Than Ever In U.S.
Posted on August 19, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - National Center for Health Statistics InjuryBoard - Help Center - Heart Problems InjuryBoard - Help Center - Cancer, Frequently Asked Questions IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ elderly couple, author's grandparents/ author: Laartist 75 for Men, 80 for Women If you were born in 2007, your life expectancy just went up to nearly 78 years, the highest it's ever been, the government reports today...
Merck Pays for Favorable Gardasil Opinion
Posted on August 19, 2009$750,000 LEARN MORE JAMA – Marketing HPV Vaccine -August 2009 JAMA –Risks and Benefits of HPV Vaccination, Editorial – August 2009 CDC - on Adverse Events HPV Vaccine FDA on Gardasil InjuryBoard Cervical Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: © ©iStockphoto/ girl being vaccinated/ author: pflorendo Merck & Co paid for a favorable medical opinion from three medical associations to promote Gardasil, according to a published report...
New J & J Ceramic Hip Implant Wins FDA Advisory Approval
Posted on August 19, 2009Ceramic On Metal LEARN MORE DePuy Web site Clinical trials on DePuy Orthopaedics clinical study %ta_ center">IMAGE SOURCE: J &%Web site An FDA advisory panel has voted 5-0 to approve a new hip replacement made by Johnson & Johnson...
Sleep Apnea Linked To Premature Death In Men
Posted on August 18, 2009LEARN MORE PLoS Medicine, August 2009 American Sleep Apnea Association IB News, Sleep Apnea Hurts Memory, June 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhotos / snoring / author: AnitaPatterson Loud snoring, interrupted breathing and sleep disruption – classic signs of sleep apnea – raise the risk of premature death, according to a new study published in PLos Medicine...
Will Swine Flu Vaccine Be Hurt Over Thimerosal?
Posted on August 18, 2009LEARN MORE Johns Hopkins Bloomberg - Institute of Vaccine Safety The Lancet - H1N1 and Pregnancy - August 2009 CDC-Page on swine flu CDC - Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices National Institutes of Health - on Guillian-Barre Syndrome IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Symptoms of swine flu/ author: CDC Vaccines Being Prepared This fall the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hopes to have 120 million doses of the swine flu vaccine ready for the public to protect itself against the H1N1 virus...
Gardasil Subject of Back-To-School Campaign
Posted on August 18, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices GSK Cervarix CDC - on Adverse Events HPV Vaccine FDA on Gardasil National Institutes of Health - on Guillian-Barre Syndrome Submit an adverse events report or by phone at 1-800-822-7967 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Gardasil promotion poster from Northampton, MA/ author: Eugene Peretz Back To School Drugmaker, Merck & Co...
Smokeless Tobacco - Not A Safer Alternative To Cigarettes Study Finds
Posted on August 17, 2009Chemicals Found In Smokeless Tobacco LEARN MORE Masonic Cancer Center IB Partner, Mike Ferrara, Cherry Hill, New Jersey – on Nicotine Super-Charged Smokeless Tobacco – November 2008 IB Partner, Armand Rossetti, West Palm, Florida – E-Cigarettes…Anyone Else? – July 2009 CDC Podcast – Snuff Out Smoking CDC Fact Sheet – Smokeless Tobacco IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ can of snuff, General Snus portion / author: de: Benutzer:Tigerente Not debatable – Smoking Kills...
More Health Care Does Not Mean Healthier
Posted on August 17, 2009Americans Not As Healthy As Others LEARN MORE Journal of the American Medical Association - Disease and Disadvantage in the US and England, 2006 Health Affairs, 2007 - Creating Accountable Care Organizations Primer on ACOs - Kaiser Family Health IB News - Obesity Rates Surge in 37 States - August 2008 InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard on Type II Diabetes CDC on Obesity IMAGE SOURCE: ©Wikimedia Commons / waist circumference / author: Pharos, FDA Dietary Guidelines While there are different ideas about how to reform health care, it's clear that there is more to healthy than health care, and in that regard, Americans are lacking...
Research - Drug Compound Destroys Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Posted on August 17, 2009LEARN MORE Cell, Aug. 13, 2009 InjuryBoard News – Breast Cancer InjuryBoard Help Center – Breast Cancer National Cancer Institute on Breast Cancer Dana-Farber Cancer Center IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhotos / breast cancer / author: cassp Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Broad Institute have identified a compound that can destroy breast cancer stem cells, a type of master cell resistant to conventional treatment...
Bowing to Pressure Public Option May Be Dropped
Posted on August 17, 2009Public Option Critical LEARN MORE U.S. Chamber of Commerce – Responsible Health Reform TV ad Center for Media and Democracy SourceWatch – on U...
Diabetes Monitors Faulty Testing Strips
Posted on August 17, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Warning – Public Health Notification FDA Advice for Patients InjuryBoard Help Center- Diabetes InjuryBoard on Diabetes Drugs American Diabetes Association IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Diabetes Icon Public Health Notification The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning patients with diabetes that they may get an inaccurate reading of their blood sugar levels from certain glucose test strips...
Dealing With Big Pharma
Posted on August 14, 2009LEARN MORE PhRma Web site MSNBC Ryan Grim video Robert Reich Blog IMAGE SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons/ White House Details Coming Out While much of the health care debate has been very public, details of the very private negotiations between the White House and the pharmaceutical industry are becoming public...
Lawmakers Push To End Prescription Drug Commercials
Posted on August 14, 2009LEARN MORE WHO: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Fire The Prescription Project Say No to Drug Ads Act IB News - Consumers Can Decide Future of TV Drug Ads, October 2008 InjuryBoard Health Care Reform News IMAGE SOURCE: © Lipitor...
Doctor Forced To Resign For Dissing Dunkin Donuts
Posted on August 14, 2009Donuts=Diabetes LEARN MORE World Health Organization - Diet and Chronic Diseases - 2003 report InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard on Type II Diabetes CDC on Obesity All Americans May Be Overweight in 40 Years CDC: Americans Have Packed On Pounds in 23 Years F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing In America 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Panama City News Herald Web site/ image of Dr...
Two Air Traffic Controllers Suspended Following Hudson River Collision
Posted on August 13, 2009LEARN MORE NBC News - Video of the collision IB News – Bodies Retrieved After Hudson River Crash – August 2009 NTSB - Press Release on the investigation Federal Aviation Administration IMAGE SOURCE: NBC News Web site/ collision over the Hudson, Saturday August 8, 2009 Two Suspended CNN is reporting that two air traffic controllers, on duty at the time a light plane and helicopter collided over the Hudson River last weekend killing nine, that killed nine over the Hudson River last weekend, have both been suspended...
Do High-Fat Diets Make Us Stupid and Lazy??
Posted on August 13, 2009LEARN MORE Abstract – Deterioration of physical performance – FASEB Journal, August 10, 2009 What is FASEB? News Release on diet study findings IMAGE SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons/ burger and fries/ author: Jess Sawrey That is the headline of a news release announcing a new study published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Journal...
Experimental Drugs Easier To Obtain Under New FDA Rules
Posted on August 13, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on FDA & Prescription Drugs FDA Web site – Rules on Investigational Drugs IB News – Ethics Shakeup at FDA – August 09 IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / Rx Drugs / author: pixhook For critically ill patients, experimental or investigational drugs, not yet approved, may hold out the best hope for their desperate condition...
Promising Osteoporosis Drug Reduces Fractures, May Impact Immunity
Posted on August 12, 2009Reduces Spinal Fractures By 62 Percent LEARN MORE Amgen Press Release on its studies FDA Briefing Information, August 13, 2009 National Osteoporosis Foundation Web site NOF on Jaw Necrosis NOF on Osteoporosis Facts IB News - Osteoporosis Treatment Controversy - August 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ spine x-rays/ author: FotografiaBasica The drug is called denosumab, and it is used to stop the production of cells known as osteoclasts, that breakdown bone leading to osteoporosis...
Aspirin In The Fight Against Colorectal Cancer
Posted on August 12, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA – Abstract InjuryBoard Help Center- Colon Cancer American Cancer Society on colon cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Diagram of the stomach, colon and rectum/ author: William Crochot A newly published study finds that taking aspirin regularly may keep colon cancer at bay...
Report: Millions Denied Insurance Coverage For Pre-Existing Medical Conditions
Posted on August 12, 2009LEARN MORE Coverage Denied: How the Current Health Insurance System Leaves Millions Behind HHS News Release InjuryBoard Health Care Reform News IMAGE SOURCE: © HealthReform...
Wii-Mote Charging Station Recall
Posted on August 12, 2009LEARN MORE Griffin International Companies CPSC Notice IMAGE SOURCE: CPSC Web site/ underside of Psyclone charging station A consumer alert is being issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The Wii-mote controller can burn your hands and pose a fire hazard if the battery recharging station overheats...
Ethics Shakeups At FDA
Posted on August 12, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News -Medtronic Reveals More Fatalities, April, 2009 IB News – Medical Device Division of FDA Broken, Needs Fixing – April 2009 InjuryBoard News -Injured Support Overturn of Riegel, April 09 FDA - Recall of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads, October 2007 NEJM Editorial - on The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, March 18, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Janet Woodcock, Wall Street Journal Web site Shakeups are underway at the Food and Drug Administration, specifically in the areas of medical devices and drug research...
"Shouting Fire" - Health Care Debate Squelched By Fear Mongers (Part 1)
Posted on August 11, 2009LEARN MORE AMA- Vision for Health Care Reform Bill Text- Rep. Blumenauer Olbermann- 'Special Comment' Palin's Facebook page IMAGE SOURCE: YouTube, October 2, 2009/ Palin winks at America Fear sells...
Free Health Care Draws Thousands As Nation Debates Need
Posted on August 11, 2009LEARN MORE RAM Web site A message from Stan Brock RAM schedule for 2009 RAM on '60 Minutes' – March 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Web site/ waiting outside the Forum before dawn RAM in Los Angeles Health care reform has proven a huge challenge for President Obama, not helped by the civil unrest being churned up by at Town Hall meetings by insurance and health care corporations and citizens content with leaving health care alone...
GE Halts Clean Up Amid Rising PCBs In Hudson River
Posted on August 11, 2009Hudson River GE plant, Image: EPA LEARN MORE Environmental Protection Agency on the Hudson contamination Clean Up GE Web site The New York Department of Environmental Conservation Precautionary Principle IMAGE SOURCE: EPA images Web site / of GE Hudson River plant GE Cleanup Halted Dredging on the Hudson River has been halted over concerns that the probable carcinogen, PCB, is being measured at unsafe levels...
First Fosamax Trial Slated For Today In Manhattan
Posted on August 11, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Fosamax News InjuryBoard on Fosamax WebMD on Bisphosphonate Drugs InjuryBoard on Bone, Joint & Muscle Disorders Center for Osteonecrosis Research & Education IMAGE SOURCE: © Fosamax Web site Pharma giant Merck & Co...
Health Reform Starts With Avoiding Medical Errors
Posted on August 10, 2009Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200K Deaths a year LEARN MORE Dead By Mistake report State-By-State - Report on medical errors Institute of Medicine- on medical errors "To Err is Human" – report by IOM American Medical Association Web site The Center for Responsive Politics IMAGE SOURCE: Death By Mistake Victims, SF Chronicle Web site/ image of Diane Rizk McCabe Sharon Moore Trevor Nelson and son 'Dead By Mistake,' a report issued Monday by journalists working for the Hearst Corporation, finds that the preventable medical death toll approaches 200,000 a year...
Medical Mistakes Blamed for 200K Deaths A Year
Posted on August 10, 2009LEARN MORE Dead By Mistake report State-By-State - Report on medical errors Institute of Medicine- on medical errors To Err is Human – report by IOM American Medical Association Web site The Center for Responsive Politics IMAGE SOURCE: Death By Mistake Web site/ map of states An investigation by journalists working for the Hearst Corporation reports that 200,000 Americans will die this year from mistakes made by doctors and in hospitals...
Bodies Retrieved After Hudson River Crash
Posted on August 10, 2009Renewed Calls for Safety Over City LEARN MORE NTSB - Press Release on the investigation Federal Aviation Administration IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ Retrieving helicopter parts, Sunday August 9 Divers in the murky waters of the Hudson River have retrieved seven bodies after a weekend mid-air crash...
Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death Autopsy Finds
Posted on August 07, 2009LEARN MORE IB Help Center - Oxycodone, OxyContin IB Partner- Houston, Hydrocodone IB Help Center - Painkillers IB News - Death of Heath Ledger, February 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: CBS News Web site/ Billy Mays First it was reported that TV pitchman Billy Mays, who died in June at the age of 50, had hit his head during a turbulent landing on a flight into Tampa...
Women DUIs Are Up
Posted on August 07, 2009LEARN MORE MADD - Web site IB News – Wrong-Way Mom Drove Drunk, Stoned – August 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Drunk Driving Accidents NHTSA Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Newsday Web site, minivan of Diane Schuler, July 26, 2009 The ultimate form of child abuse...
825,000 Pounds of Salmonella Beef Recalled
Posted on August 07, 2009LEARN MORE CDC on Salmonella Colorado Department of Public Health - News Release Beef Packers Inc. Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ USDA image of ground beef inspection Salmonella Newport Safeway Stores, the large grocer of the western U...
CDC Documents Forecast Fight Over Vaccines
Posted on August 06, 2009Internal Documents LEARN MORE National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Web site IB News – Parents Say California Autism Study is Flawed – January 2008 Age of Autism SafeMinds CDC - - Vaccine talking points National Autism Association IB News - Study Links Low birth Weight to Autism On Eve of March on Washington – June 2008 Moms Against Mercury FDA on thimerosal free vaccines CA law on influenza vaccine CA law that removes mercury from childhood vaccines IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ child inner world/ author: Grabpa Internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) media talking points offer a peak behind the curtain of the struggle ahead in convincing the public about the need for vaccines to fight swine flu...
Osteoporosis Treatment Controversy
Posted on August 06, 2009Does Cement Work? LEARN MORE NEJM - Abstract on Vertebroplasty National Osteoporosis Foundation Web site IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ spine x-rays/ author: FotografiaBasica It is a treatment that uses an acrylic cement to harden bones in the spinal column weakened by the bone-thinning disorder, osteoporosis...
Lawsuit Documents Reveal Ghostwriters Penned Accolades For Wyeth
Posted on August 06, 2009Writing For Dollars LEARN MORE PLoS – Discusses Ghostwriting Public Justice- Access to Justice Campaign Public Justice – in support of PLoS, Motion for Access to Discovery InjuryBoard News – Merck Busted for Ghostwriting – April 2008 InjuryBoard on HRT IB News on Breast Cancer IB, Christopher Nace, Washington, D...
Merck, Schering Reach Vytorin Settlement
Posted on August 05, 2009LEARN MORE Merck News Release InjuryBoard Vytorin News InjuryBoard on Vytorin InjuryBoard on Cholesterol Drugs FDA on Vytorin IB News - Bad News Cholesterol Drug Data Withheld, Jan...
Wrong-Way Mom Drove Drunk, Stoned Before Killing Seven, Self
Posted on August 05, 2009Drunk, High LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - on Drunk Driving Accidents Alcoholism Community - Blog Alcoholics Anonymous Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Newsday Web site/ the Schuler family Diane Schuler was a 36-year-old suburban housewife from Long Island, New York who apparently was hiding a deep secret...
World Trade Attack Health Effects Linger
Posted on August 05, 2009World Trade Attacks LEARN MORE JAMA Abstract NYC Health Department- Press release IB News - Ground Zero Lawsuits to begin in 2010 - December 2008 InjuryBoard on Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome World Trade Center Health registry CDC on World Trade Center Response IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / World Trade Center Aerial View (March 2001) / author: Jeffmock September 11, 2001...
FDA - TNF Blockers Raise Cancer Risk In Kids
Posted on August 04, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release FDA Follow Up To June 2008 Early Communication IB News, FDA Probes Arthritis Drug and Cancer Reports in Kids, June 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: © Johnson & Johnson's Remicade Web site The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring stronger warnings in the prescribing information for a class of drugs known as TNF blockers used to treat arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, because they can increase the risk of cancer in children and adolescents...
Study - Brain Activities Delay Onset of Memory Decline
Posted on August 04, 2009LEARN MORE Neurology - Cognitive Activities Delay Onset of Memory Decline in Persons who Develop Dementia, August 2009 IB News, Later Retirement May Delay Dementia, May 2009 InjuryBoard on Dementia IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ progressive dementia patient/ author: Dr...
Contaminated Skin Sanitizers Seized By U.S. Marshals
Posted on August 03, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release Infectious Disease Society of America IMAGE SOURCE: © FDA logo The U...
Gym Classes See Hike In Child Injuries
Posted on August 03, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics- Abstract Center for Injury Research and Policy Web site IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ children playing in class/ author: Rivendellstudios A new study just published in the medical journal Pediatrics reports a 150% increase in injuries sustained by students in school gym classes in the last 10 years...
Millions Of Kids Lacking Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin
Posted on August 03, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics - Vitamin D Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the United States Adolescent Population Pediatrics - Prevalence and Associations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency in US Children: NHANES 2001–2004 NIH on Vitamin D U...
Health Care Tough Sell At Town Hall
Posted on August 03, 2009Town Hall Booed LEARN MORE H.R. 3200 OMB on health care reform IB News - Insurance Insider Goes Public- July 2009 IB Blog, Jeff Rasansky, Dallas - Top 10 Worse Insurance Companies July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ health insurance/ author: DNY59 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter got a preview Sunday of the tough sell facing lawmakers over passage of health care reforms...
Famed Harley-Davidson Dealer Killed In Motorcycle Crash
Posted on July 31, 2009Bruce Rossmeyer - May 1943 - July 2009 LEARN MORE About Bruce Rossmeyer 2005 article: Destination Daytona was Rossmeyer's Brainchild InjuryBoard Motorcycle Help Center IMAGE SOURCE: © Bruce Rossmeyer / photo from Camp Boggy Creek Web site Famed Harley-Davidson dealer Bruce Rossmeyer was killed in a motorcycle crash in Wyoming Thursday...
Study - Cosmetic Procedure May Ease Migraine Pain
Posted on July 31, 2009LEARN MORE Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, August 2009 InjuryBoard on Headaches MAGNUM: The National Migraine Association InjuryBoard Migraine News IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / splitting headache / author: pidjoe Are you one of the 30 million people in the world that suffers from the debilitating pain of migraines? I am...
HPV Virus May Affect Head and Neck Cancer Survival
Posted on July 30, 2009LEARN MORE Cancer Prevention Research, July 2009 InjuryBoard News on HPV National Cancer Institute on Head and Neck Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia / head and neck overview Head and neck cancer patients who test positive for human papillomavirus (HPV) have a better rate of survival than patients that don't have the virus, according to new research published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research...
Study Suggests Organic Food Has No Nutritional Or Health Benefits
Posted on July 30, 2009LEARN MORE The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2009 USDA – National Organic Program IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto /organic foods / author: dra_schwartz A new report by British researchers suggests organic food has no nutritional or health benefits compared to non-organic food...
WHO Adds Tanning Beds To Highest Cancer Risk Category
Posted on July 29, 2009LEARN MORE The Lancet, July 2009 InjuryBaord Help Center- Tanning Beds IB News- Tanning Beds Link To Cancer - National Cancer Institute, February 2002 IB - Florida Proposed Ban On Tanning Beds For Teens, March 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: iStochphoto / girl in tanning bed / author: technotr There is very little doubt, if any at all, that using a sunbed or sunlamp will raise the risk of skin cancer, say international cancer researchers...
Federal Ban Proposed On Texting While Driving
Posted on July 29, 2009Texting While Driving LEARN MORE GHSA News Release NYT- withheld NHTSA documents on distracted drivers Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Web site GHSA - Current Cell Phone Laws IB News - OMG - Are You Addicted to Texting? - March 2008 IMAGE SOURCE:© iStockphoto/ teen texting/ roundhill Legislation introduced Wednesday would withhold federal highway funds from states that do not ban texting while driving...
Bringing Health Care To The People
Posted on July 29, 2009Health Care Delivered in Animal Stalls LEARN MORE RAM Web site A message from Stan Brock RAM schedule for 2009 IB News - Insurance Insider Goes Public, July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: National Public Radio/ Web site/ images from Wise, Virginia It is the rural medical camp that turned Wendell Potter, former CIGNA spokesman, into an insurance whistleblower...
Viagra For Hypertension Trial Halted
Posted on July 29, 2009Drug Made By Pfizer LEARN MORE NIH news release on trial halt NIH - on Sickle Cell disease NIH - on Sickle Cell Disease Program, February 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: The Stem Bell Blog Web site/ author : David Gransovsky Viva Viagra, is the memorable advertising slogan for the erectile dysfunction (ED) drug...
Blue Dye In M & Ms May Reduce Spinal Cord Injury
Posted on July 28, 2009LEARN MORE University of Rochester - Neurology Dept. Wiki on Coomassie dyes InjuryBoard News - More Than Five Million Live With Paralysis, New Research Shows - April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: CNN Web site/ blue rat Blue Dye in M & M and Gatorade Blue dye is found in foods normally considered in the "junk" category - blue M & Ms for instance...
Injury Victims Protest Outside Chrysler Headquarters
Posted on July 28, 2009Jeremy Warriner and his daughter Maddie LEARN MORE Jeremy Warriner Consumer Protection Act IB - Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under The Bus, June 2009 IB, Honolulu - Sad Day For Americans: Judge Allows GM to Escape Payments to Victims of Injury and Death From Defective GM Cars, July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Jeremy Warriner & his daughter Maddie from his Blog Walking Spirit A protest was held outside Chrysler's headquarters yesterday as a group of people who were injured or have lost loved ones due to unsafe and defective Chrysler vehicles, rallied together...
Canadian Malpractice Insurance Takes Profit Out Of Coverage
Posted on July 28, 2009For Profit V. Nonprofit LEARN MORE Canadian Medical Protective Association Web site Americans for Insurance Reform InjuryBoard News - Medical Malpractice Payments Decline - July 2009 Public Citizen: The 0.6 Percent Bogeyman - July 2009 Public Citizen News Release IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto / medical solutions / author: gmutlu The St...
This Just In - Luis Jimenez Jury Sides With Hospital
Posted on July 27, 2009Jury Sides with Hospital LEARN MORE IMAGE SOURCE: So Florida Sun Sentinel Web site/ image of Luis Jimenez The family of a man deported to Guatemala after he was hit by a car and left a paraplegic and brain injured, had sought $1 million for his continuing care in that country...
The Cost Of Obesity - $147 Billion Annually
Posted on July 27, 2009The Cost of Health Care - Obesity LEARN MORE CDC - Recommended Community Strategies, report CDC- Economic Consequences of Obesity BMI Calculation InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Help Center - on Type II Diabetes CDC on Obesity InjuryBoard News - CDC: Americans Have Packed On Pounds in 23 Years Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report - "F" as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing In America 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: ©Wikimedia Commons / waist circumference / author: Pharos, FDA Dietary Guidelines The cost between rising obesity rates and rising medical costs is undeniable...
Parents Urged To Reject Restrictive Diets For Autism
Posted on July 27, 2009Gluten and Dairy-Free Among Them LEARN MORE Autism Speaks Web site Pediatrics - Abstract Institute for Vaccine Safety Age of Autism InjuryBoard on Autism Injuryboard on Hanna Poling case InjuryBoard on Chelation Therapy InjuryBoard on Thimerosal Injuryboard on Bernadine Healy Moms Against Mercury National Institutes of Mental Health IB News - Parents Say California Autism Study is Flawed IMAGE SOURCE: WikiMedia Commons/ sleeping autistic boy with ducks in a row/ Author: Andwhatsnext It has been observed that autistic children have higher rates of constipation and eating disorders, but a new study disputes the finding that these children have more gastrointestinal (GI) problems than other children...
Agent Orange Associated With More Illnesses
Posted on July 27, 2009LEARN MORE Institute of Medicine - Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008 Agent Orange Act of 1991 InjuryBoard on Agent Orange Department of Veterans - Agent Orange IMAGE SOURCE: Institute of Medicine (IOM) A new report released by the Institute of Medicine suggests more diseases may be linked to exposure to Agent Orange, a defoliant used by U...
Save Money - Deport The Patient
Posted on July 24, 2009Jury Will Decide If Unreasonable and Unwarrented LEARN MORE IMAGE SOURCE: So Florida Sun Sentinel Web site/ image of Luis Jimenez A South Florida hospital quietly chartered a plane and sent a brain-injured Guatemalan man back to his country over the objections of his family and guardian...
FEMA Toxic Trailer Exposure Confirmed
Posted on July 24, 2009FEMA Slow To Respond LEARN MORE Homeland Security Department - Inspector General's Report CDC- on Travel Trailer study CDC on indoor air quality concerns Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory FAQ About formaldehyde Manufactured Housing Institute InjuryBoard on formaldehyde exposure InjuryBoard on baby furniture and formaldehyde InjuryBoard on Katrina relocations, June '08 CDC indoor air tests on formaldehyde IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ trailers St...
Can Hearts Be Mended?
Posted on July 24, 2009Can Hearts Be Mended? LEARN MORE Cell- Abstract IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ laboratory mice/ author: Aaron Logan The answer to that question was thought to be no. It's been assumed that heart muscle could not repair itself after birth and that once a heart is damaged by disease such as a heart attack, the cells do not regenerate...
Hot Dog Lawsuit
Posted on July 23, 2009Hot Dog Lawsuit LEARN MORE The Cancer Project Web site AICR Web site AICR - Guideline for Cancer Prevention The Cancer Project on processed meats Processed Meats in Schools: Putting Children at Risk for Cancer, Summer 2008 NCI- Red Meat Consumption NCI- Processed Meat Consumption, 2006 IMAGE SOURCE: National Hot Dog and Sausage Council Web site The Cancer Project, a cancer prevention nonprofit, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three New Jersey residents against hot dog makers...
Swine Flu And Seizures In Children
Posted on July 23, 2009CDC Warns Parents, Doctors LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Swine Flu Comeback with School Predicted- July 2009 InjuryBoard, Atlanta, Childers & Schlueter LLP, - Government Creating Legal Immunity for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers - July 2009 CDC on H1N1 CDC weekly report on seizures IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Swine flu diagram / author: Mikael Haggstrom Doctors and parents are being warning to watch for seizures among children who appear to have the flu...
FDA Warns Of E-Cigarettes Hazard
Posted on July 23, 2009E-Cigarettes LEARN MORE NJOY Web site Smoking Everywhere Web site American Thoracic Society Web site American Academy of Pediatrics- Tobacco Consortium American Lung Association Web site InjuryBoard Help Center on cigarettes and tobacco InjuryBoard News -Teens quitting smoking, December 2008 InjuryBoard News on Cigarettes NIH on Smoking Cessation IMAGE SOURCE : NJOY e-cigarette/ NJOY Web site They are used to help people stop smoking...
Med Mal Insurance Profits Up, Claims Are Down, Study Finds
Posted on July 22, 2009Study: No Basis To Limit Liability LEARN MORE True Risk - study American Academy of Family Physicians - Examples of State Tort Reforms IMAGE SOURCE: Cozy Crab Sunshade / CPSC A major study released today by a coalition of nearly 100 consumer groups, finds that medical malpractice premiums and claims for doctors have dropped significantly in recent years at the same time as the insurance providers are enjoying record profits in a time of global economic collapse...
Compulsory Health Coverage Leads Policies
Posted on July 22, 2009Individual Mandate LEARN MORE WHO on health care delivery Physicians for a National Health Program Web site PNHP on single-payer National Health Insurance JAMA on Single-Payer - August 2003 The Commonwealth Fund Kaiser Family Foundation IMAGE SOURCE: Physicians for a National Health Program Web site President Obama plans to update the nation tonight on the national health care system that is on the front burner as differing factions push one of three bills being considered by Congress...
New Guidelines to Reduce Induced Labor
Posted on July 21, 2009Not Before 39 Weeks LEARN MORE ACOG on induction guidelines June issue of Perinatology The March of Dimes Injuryboard on premature infant drugs Injuryboard on children's health matters IMAGE SOURCE : Wikimedia Commons/ premature infant/ author: Hallbrianh The nation's largest association of obstetricians and gynecologists issued new guidelines today to reduce the number of induced labors now at "epidemic" numbers...
Flea And Tick Product Safety
Posted on July 21, 2009LEARN MORE Regulation of Flea and Tick Products Hazardous Chemicals Contained in Pet Products Learn how to Protect your Pet without Hazardous Chemicals Listing of EPA-registered Spot-On Flea and Tick Products (pdf) IMAGE SOURCE: My dog, Tequila As a dog owner, one of your many concerns is likely flea and tick prevention...
New York City Restaurants Ditch Trans Fats
Posted on July 21, 200998 Percent Phase Out LEARN MORE Annals of Internal Medicine, July 21, 2009 The Campaign To Ban Partially Hydrogenated Oils Web site Harvard School of Public Health - on trans fats IMAGE SOURCE: Harvard School of Public Health Web site / Trans fat label The New York City Board of Health says menu fare is healthier in the city since restaurants ditched the artery-clogging artificial trans fats in nearly all restaurants...
How Safe Is Your Pool?
Posted on July 20, 2009How Safe is Your Pool? LEARN MORE National Swimming Pool Foundation - Seven Tips For Safer Swimming Manufacturers of Approved drain covers CPSC - Pool & Spa Submersions Report, May 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics - on pool safety The National Swimming Pool Foundation Virginia Graeme Baker Pool & Spa Safety Act Who was Virginia Graeme Baker? Virginia Graeme Baker Image/ About...
Boston Trolley Operator Arraigned For Texting Crash
Posted on July 20, 2009LEARN MORE MBTA - Cell Phone Ban Expanded - June 2009 IB News - Older Washington D.C. Metro Cars Never Replaced - June 2009 Federal Railroad Administration NTSB - Web site InjuryBoard Partner, Rick Shapiro, Northern Virginia/DC - Railroad Injury Lawyer / former head of the American Association for Justice Railroad Law section American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Rail Division IMAGE SOURCE: Boston Herald Web site/ Aiden Quinn and accident photo Third Incident Since May Last May, Boston trolley operator, Aiden Quinn, 24, (not the actor) admitted he was sending a text message when he ran into another trolley injuring more than 62 people...
CDC Study - Teen Pregnancy & STDs On The Rise
Posted on July 20, 2009Rates* of primary and secondary syphilis among adolescents aged 15--19 years, by sex and year --- Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, United States, 1997--2006 LEARN MORE CDC – MMWR – July 17, 2009 InjuryBoard News on Teenagers CDC STD Prevention TeenSource – Teen Sex Education IMAGE SOURCE: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention After a 14 year decline, a newly released study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows birth rates among teens increased in 2006 and 2007...
Swine Flu Comeback With School Predicted
Posted on July 20, 2009Swine Flu LEARN MORE World Health Organization WHO- Europe InjuryBoard News - Swine Flu Immunity Seen in Older People - May 2009 InjuryBoard Swine Flu News CDC - Swine Flu latest WHO H1N1 News IMAGE SOURCE: Flu View/ CDC Web site The swine flu is expected to make a comeback with the opening of school, earlier than the flu season in October or November, federal health officials predict...
Latino Worker Deaths Up 76 Percent
Posted on July 20, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Workplace Injuries US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) IB, Austin, TX - Scaffold Collapse At Austin's 21 Rio Condo Project Demonstrates The Need For Fall Safety Systems, June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / author: DanWilton As the nation's total number of workplace deaths has declined, the number of Hispanic workers who have died on the job has risen by 76 percent, according to newly released federal statistics...
Harry And Louise Are Back
Posted on July 17, 2009Health Reform Characters With A Different Message LEARN MORE Gallup Poll on reform America's Health Insurance (AHIP) Plans Web site AHIP statement on health care reform PhRma Web site Families USA IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ Harry and Louise and Chris Dodd You might remember them from ads that ran in 1993 and 1994 to scuttle the Clinton health reform movement...
Grain, Livestock Farmers Concerned With Proposed Food Safety Bill
Posted on July 17, 2009LEARN MORE Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 InjuryBoard Food Safety News InjuryBoard on The FDA FDA Food Safety Food Labeling Law Takes Effect IMAGE SOURCE: FDA Web site Livestock and grain farmers are concerned about proposed legislation to overhaul the nation's food-safety system and don't want the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspecting farms...
Memory Loss Before Age 60 Due To Alzheimer's Gene
Posted on July 16, 2009LEARN MORE NEJM Abstract, July 16, 2009 ActionAlz.org Alzheimer's Association World Alzheimer's Day InjuryBoard on Alzheimer's and Dementia IMAGE SOURCE: © Alzheimer's Association You may begin to show the signs of Alzheimer's disease and memory problems in your 50s if you inherit a common gene variant known as, ApoE4, according to new research...
Race For Alzheimer's Cure
Posted on July 16, 2009Image Source: National Institute on Aging Race For A Cure LEARN MORE Alzheimer's Association - on new research Linus Pauling Institute - on curcumin Human BioMolelcular Research Institute IMAGE SOURCE: WikiMedia Commons/ Enzymes acting on the amyloid protein cutting it into fragments of beta-amyloid/ author: National Institute on Aging New treatments for Alzheimer's may be on the horizon...
Study Links Smoking To Rapid MS Progression
Posted on July 15, 2009LEARN MORE Archives of Neurology, July 2009 InjuryBoard on Multiple Sclerosis InjuryBoard News on Smoking IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / quit smoking / author: RobHadfield A new study in the Archives of Neurology suggests the effects of smoking can speed up the progression multiple sclerosis (MS) while past studies have suggested cigarette smokers are at an increased risk of developing the disease...
Wal-Mart The Environmentalist?
Posted on July 15, 2009Giant Retailer Wants To Go Green LEARN MORE Environment Defense Fund - on Wal-Mart Global Institute of Sustainability- Arizona State University Sam M. Walton College of Business InjuryBoard News - Shoppers Stampede L.I. Wal-Mart Trampling Guard To Death - December, 2008 NY Post video Wal-Mart Web site General distain for the retailer - Walmartsucks...
Hormone Therapy Increases Risk Ovarian Cancer
Posted on July 15, 2009Hormone Therapy Risk LEARN MORE JAMA study, July 2009 NCI on Ovarian Cancer IB News - Ovarian Cancer Blood Test Increases Early Detection - June 2008 American Cancer Society - on ovarian cancer InjuryBoard on premarin and ovarian cancer National Ovarian Cancer Coalition InjuryBoard on early warning stages IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ anatomy of the ovaries/ U...
Tub And Shower Injuries Top Dangers To Young Children
Posted on July 14, 2009Falls Are Greatest Danger LEARN MORE Pediatrics - Injuries Associated with Bathtubs and Showers - July 2009 NEISS Web site IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockphoto/ baby in a tub A new study confirms that bath dangers are the greatest threat to young children...
SW Jet Makes Emergency Landing After Hole in Fuselage
Posted on July 14, 2009Photo on Twitter Hole In Fuselage LEARN MORE IB News - Petition on SW Air Passenger Poisoning - May 2009 IB Washington - Fumes Aboard SW Airliner - February 2009 IB Santa Clarita, CA - SW Misses Inspections - March 2008 IB Chicago- SW Settles Wrongful Death - April 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: Twitter/ Hole in SW Jet/ passenger: John Rhodes It doesn't happen every day-thankfully...
40 Sickened From Contaminated Generic Diprivan - Recall Launched
Posted on July 14, 2009Different Lots Found At Jackson's LEARN MORE Indiana University - Warning letter to doctors about propofol and tainted lots Teva Pharmaceuticals USA - Web site IB News - Doctors Discuss Dangers of Diprivan, July 2009 Ib News - Exclusive Jackson & /Diprivan- FDA Issued Alert Two Years Ago, July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Propofol Injectable/ Teva Pharmaceuticals Web site Although there is no known link to the death of Michael Jackson, two lots of the same type of powerful sedative reportedly taken by the star have been recalled after they were found to be contaminated...
Millions Committed To Unstoppable Swine Flu
Posted on July 13, 2009Unstoppable Flu LEARN MORE State by State - swine flu CDC - Latest on swine flu InjuryBoard News - Swine Flu Not Linked To Smithfield Foods - May, 2009 InjuryBoard News - New Head CDC To Tackle Swine Flu, Morale - May, 2009 CDC - on Swine Flu WHO - Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Swine Flu in Hong Kong/ New York Times Web site The World Health Organization is giving the green light to the development of a vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu virus, saying healthcare workers should be the first ones vaccinated...
New Surgeon General Nominee Named
Posted on July 13, 2009Nominee Named LEARN MORE IMAGE SOURCE/ Dr. Regina Benjamin / ABC News Web site Her name is Regina Benjamin, a family physician from Alabama who has been named by President Obama as the new surgeon general. Dr. Benjamin helped rebuild a Bayou La Batre, Alabama, health clinic that serves 4,400 after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Georges in 1998...
Fighting Alzheimer's Disease With Omega Three Fatty Acids
Posted on July 13, 2009Alzheimer's and Alcohol, DHA and PTSD - Three Studies LEARN MORE Alzheimer's Association - more on studies IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ progressive dementia patient/ author: Dr. Laughlin Dawes The question had been posed - does taking DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid - fight the ravages of Alzheimer's disease? People had been swallowing DHA (ducosahexenoic acid) supplements found in fish oil and eating salmon and tuna to get their daily dose of the fatty acid to reduce the risk for Alzheimer's or treat it...
Former Surgical Tech Denied Bail In Hepatitis C Scare
Posted on July 13, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Hepatitis C News Injuryboard on hepatitis Injuryboard on reuse of syringes IMAGE SOURCE: Creativecommons...
Study - Swearing May Lessen Pain
Posted on July 13, 2009LEARN MORE NeuroReport, Swearing as a Response to Pain, August 2009 CasUal swearing appreciatioN socieTy (Facebook) IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / lady swearing / Juanmonino Cut your finger? Bump your funny bone? %!$&*@#! New scientific research finds swearing might help to lessen the perception of pain...
Do You Live In A Fat State?
Posted on July 09, 2009View Obesity Rates in your State LEARN MORE CDC – Obesity Trends Report (pdf) CDC on Obesity 2008 State Obesity Rates InjuryBoard Obesity News IMAGE SOURCE: U...
Delayed Aging With Antibiotic Rapamycin
Posted on July 09, 2009Rapamycin LEARN MORE National Institute on Aging- Interventions Testing Program Nature letter - story available by subscription The Jackson Laboratory IMAGE SOURCE: The Jackson Laboratory/ mice for sale/ Web site It happened in mice experiments and was discovered quite accidentally...
Longer Flights Increase Travelers Risk of Blood Clots
Posted on July 09, 2009LEARN MORE Annals of Internal Medicine, July 2009 InjuryBoard on VTE / Venous Thromboembolism InjuryBoard on Blood Clots IB - Surgeon General Issues "Call to Action" to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis, Sept...
Doctors Discuss Dangers of Diprivan
Posted on July 09, 2009Jackson Doctor Talks to CNN About Diprivan LEARN MORE Food and Drug Administration - on Propofol (Diprivan) Dr. Wischmeyer 2006 study- University of Colorado Drug News - on Mayo Clinic study IB News - Exclusive- Jackson and Diprivan - June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: CNN/ Larry King talks to Dr...
Insurance Industry Insider Goes Public
Posted on July 09, 2009Wendell Potter Profits Before Patients? LEARN MORE Potter Testimony Transcript- Senate Commerce Committee, June 24, 2009 Wendell Potter's Blog InjuryBoard News - When Insurers Play Doctor (Part One) - December 2007 IB News - When Insurers Play Doctor (Part Two) - December 2007 Bill Moyers Journal - Potter Interview Washington Post on Conservatives for Patients' Rights Ram USA Web site Single Payer Action - Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Center for Media and Democracy Web site / Wendell Potter For nearly 20 years, Wendell Potter, 57, had a six-figure job inside the health insurance industry, most recently as Vice President of Corporate Communications for the CIGNA Corporation...
The FDA's Division of Drug Information Is Now On Twitter
Posted on July 08, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Division of Drug Information (DDI) InjuryBoard Twitter News IB - St. Cloud, The Ethics And Legalities Of Twitter IMAGE SOURCE: FDA Twitter Account In recent months Twitter's popularity has soared...
Computer-Related Injuries On the Rise
Posted on July 08, 2009LEARN MORE The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, July 2009 NINDS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / neck pain / author: Martinan Computer users face a host of risks such as back and neck pain, carpal tunnel, blurry vision and headaches...
Food and You: Blood Pressure
Posted on July 08, 2009Lentil soup Veggie Amino Acid LEARN MORE Circulation - Glutamic Acid - Abstract, July 2009 DASH diet is detailed by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Nutrition Data on - Foods highest in Glutamic Acid IMAGE SOURCE: Wiki Media Commons/Lentil soup/ author: Xufanc Eat your vegetables sounds like grandmas sound advice, but there is new science that backs it...
Darvon, Darvocet Stronger Warning
Posted on July 08, 2009LEARN MORE Drugs.com - on Darvocet Public Citizen - on Darvon's risks IB News - Tylenol Smaller Doses May Prevent Liver Damage - June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: CVS Pharmacy Web site/ Darvocet Almost Taken Off The Market Expect to see a new stronger warning on the label of the painkillers, Darvon and Darvocet...
Mother Pleads Not Guilty of Withholding Care From Son
Posted on July 07, 2009Son Died in March LEARN MORE Texas Law - On withholding medical treatment IB News - Judge Overrules Parents Alternative Treatment, May 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Boston Globe/ Kristin LaBrie / Web site Kristen LaBrie was arraigned yesterday in Superior Court for withholding medical care from Jeremy, her autistic 9-year-old son who had cancer and died in March...
Study - Medical Malpractice Payments Decline
Posted on July 07, 2009LEARN MORE Public Citizen: The 0.6 Percent Bogeyman – July 2009 Public Citizen News Release IMAGE SOURCE: Cozy Crab Sunshade / CPSC For the third straight year, medical malpractice payments were at record lows, finds a new study released by Public Citizen...
Gardasil Rival Cervarix More Effective Maker Says
Posted on July 07, 2009Cervarix Study Funded By Maker LEARN MORE National Cancer Institute- on human papillomavirus The British Medical Journal- The Lancet, July 7, 2009 InjuryBoard Help Page - Gardasil IB News - Expanded Use of Gardasil Approved by the FDA September 2008 IB News - Did Gardasil Vaccine Cause a 12-yr-old Girl's Paralysis November 2007 IB News - HPV Vaccine Gardasil Linked to Three Deaths July 2007 IB News - One Year Anniversary of the Approval of Gardasil, June 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: WikiMedia Commons/ Teen girls/ Savaman GlaxoSmithKline Plc's (GSK) Cervarix is more effective than its rival, Gardasil in fighting the most common cervical cancer-causing viruses, says its maker...
GM Sale Passes Another Hurdle - Injured Still Left Behind
Posted on July 06, 2009Product Liability Victims Remnants of Bankruptcy LEARN MORE Public Citizen - June 3 appeal of bankruptcy court Appeal, filed July 6, 2009 Bankruptcy decision, July 5 Bankruptcy Court order, July 5 Debtors Objection Motion- June 26, 2009 InjuryBoard News - TV Ads Ask Congress To Protect Public From Chrysler GM Bankruptcies - June 2009 InjuryBoard News -Chrysler Consumers Hurt Twice, Now What?- June 2009 InjuryBoard News -Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under The Bus - June 2009 Center for Justice & Democracy- Chrysler GM Victims IMAGE SOURCE: General Motors Web site/ new cars General Motors Corp...
Death On Disney Monorail
Posted on July 06, 2009Disney Monorail Death LEARN MORE Video of the collision and driver Disney Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Two trains collide/ Orlando.com Web site The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is opening up a probe into what killed a monorail operator at Walt Disney World in Florida...
CPSC - Cribs And Baby Floats Recalled
Posted on July 06, 2009LEARN MORE Aqua-Leisure Recall Information CPSC – Simplicity Cribs Recalled InjuryBoard Simplicity Crib News InjuryBoard Defective and Dangerous Products Help Center IMAGE SOURCE: Cozy Crab Sunshade / CPSC More than four million baby floats are being voluntarily recalled by Aqua-Leisure Industries in cooperation with the U...
Plainview Milk Products Recall Covers Many Products
Posted on July 06, 2009LEARN MORE Plainview Milk Products FDA notice CDC on Salmonella IMAGE SOURCE: Plainview Milk Products Web site/ making whey Nonfat dry milk, cocoa, and other milk products made by the Plainview Milk Products Cooperative are being recalled because they might be contaminated with Salmonella...
Caffeine May Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
Posted on July 06, 2009LEARN MORE Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute - Press release Circulation on coffee consumption and stroke, February 2009 Injuryboard News on coffee and diabetes research, January 2008 Injuryboard Tampa News on McDonalds coffee case Injuryboard on pregnancy and coffee Injuryboard on caffeine and breast cancer risk Injuryboard on caffeine Annals of Internal Medicine IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ cup of coffee/ author: Julius Schorzman Five Cups a Day There's more evidence that a few cups of coffee may help the aging brain, particularly avoid the ravages of Alzheimer's disease...
Summer is Here and So Is Sun Damage
Posted on July 03, 2009Environmental Working Group Sunscreen Guide 2009 With summer officially here as of June 21, and Independence Day this weekend, sunscreen might be in your bag. But which is best? Once again, the reliable Environmental Working Group (EWG) has issued a report on the best, the questionable, and the worst of them...
Washington Post - Democracy For Sale
Posted on July 03, 2009Access For Money Plan Scrapped After Uproar LEARN MORE SPJ - Code of Ethics Maryland Sen. Cardin Web site Newspaper Revitalization Act Other highlights of the well thought-out SPJ Code include: Integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility Give voice to the voiceless Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived IMAGE SOURCE: American flag/ Liberty Film Festival Web site On this Independence Day holiday comes a story about the foundation of American democracy for sale...
First Cattle Vaccine To Stop Spread Of E. Coli
Posted on July 02, 2009New Film, Food Inc. Looks At The Problem LEARN MORE Food Inc - Watch the trailer Michael Pollan- food writer- Web site Epitopix LLC - Web site NIH on E. coli CDC on E. coli InjuryBoard - Help Center - E. coli InjuryBoard News - E. coli Found In Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough - June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Food Inc...
Swine Flu Can't Be Controlled - Vaccines On The Way
Posted on July 02, 2009600 Million Doses LEARN MORE World Health Organization WHO- Europe InjuryBoard News - Swine Flu Immunity Seen in Older People - May 2009 InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State CDC - Swine Flu latest WHO H1N1 News IMAGE SOURCE: Flu View/ CDC Web site In June, the World Health Organization declared the swine flu (H1N1) a global pandemic after it was found to have impacted more than 70 countries with more than 70,000 cases...
Cyberbully Mom Acquitted By Judge
Posted on July 02, 2009Lori Drew, July 2, 2009 Laws "Vague and Flawed" LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Cyberbullying Trial To Set Precedent For Online Harassment - November 2008 InjuryBoard News - Internet Hoax Mom Convicted of Lesser Charges - November 2008 Pew American Life Project on cyberbullying Megan Meier Foundation Friend of the Court brief, EFF Computer Fraud and Abuse Act IMAGE SOURCE: Lori Drew July 2, 2009/ Washington Post Web site The mom convicted of bullying a teenage girl on MySpace, driving her to the point of suicide, was acquitted by a Los Angeles judge Thursday...
Americans Are Getting Fatter
Posted on July 01, 2009Fattest Kids Are In Mississippi LEARN MORE Trust for America's Health- see the report IMAGE SOURCE: Trust for America's Health Web site Americans in 23 states are reported to be fatter than they were one year ago. That information comes from the nonprofit, Trust for America's Health, which released a report along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
Chantix Will Carry Mental Health Risk Warning
Posted on July 01, 2009Depression, Suicidal Thoughts LEARN MORE FDA Public Health Advisory - July 1, 2009 InjuryBoard News - Chantix Use Banned For Truckers - May 2008 InjuryBoard News - What's Next For Chantix - May 2008 FDA Public Health Advisory on Chantix May 16, 2008 Injuryboard on Chantix Institute for Safe Medication Practices IMAGE SOURCE: Pfizer, Chantix Web site Chantix is a popular smoking cessation drug but soon it will carry an ominous warning about serious side effects...
Wal-Mart Backs Obama Health Plan
Posted on July 01, 2009LEARN MORE Wal-Mart U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Letter to Senate - June 16 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Wal-Mart Super Center, Mountain Farms Mall/ author: Sprew Breaking with the business community, Wal-Mart is backing President Obama's plan to require employer-backed health insurance coverage for all employees...
FDA Panel Recommends Ban On Vicodin, Percocet
Posted on July 01, 2009LEARN MORE FDA- Acetaminophen Overdose and Liver Injury Backgrounder – May 2009 CDC- Acute Liver Failure and Acetaminophen – 2007 InjuryBoard on Vicodin IB - Tylenol Smaller Doses May Prevent Liver Damage IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Vicodin An FDA advisory panel voted 20-17 yesterday in favor of banning Vicodin and Percocet, two of the most popular prescription painkillers, as well as seven other acetaminophen/narcotic combinations and their generic equivalents due to toxic effects on the liver...
Exclusive - Jackson & Diprivan - FDA Issued Alert Two Years Ago
Posted on July 01, 2009IB News Exclusive - FDA Issued Alert On Drug Two Years Ago LEARN MORE Editors Note * IB News does not follow the celebrity beat. We are dedicated to consumer news concerning the cause and avoidance of injuries of all kinds. Occasionally a celebrity in the news will highlight a greater problem, such as prescription drug addiction...
CDC - Canes And Walkers Cause 47,000 Fall Injuries
Posted on July 01, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - Fact sheet n fall prevention InjuryBoard News - First government report on pets and falls - March 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report InjuryBoard- San Luis Ibispo, Pet distractions during driving, April, 2008 InjuryBoard- Help Center- Premises liability, Dog bites InjuryBoart Partner- Antelope Valley, CA, Dangerous Dogs IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ dog friend/ author: Kiidos Walkers, Canes, and Pets Ironically, canes are walkers are used to prevent falls...
New Agency - One Mission- To Protect Consumers
Posted on June 30, 2009Critics Fight More Regulation LEARN MORE Consumer Financial Protection Agency - What it would cover - WSJ American Bankers Association - statement in opposition - June 30 U.S. Chamber of Commerce Mortgage Fraud Blog InjuryBoard - Lombardi, Des Moines - Financial Misconduct - April 2009 InjuryBoard - Jon Lewis, Birmingham - Aura Financial Services- Greedy Scams - June 2009 InjuryBoard - Cecelia Prewett, Contributor - Overhaul Gives Consumers Relief from Forced Arbitration - June 2009 InjuryBoard News - The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One - April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Smart Credit Cards/ author: Channel R For those who don't like more government regulation, this draft legislation is not going to sit well...
Tylenol Smaller Doses May Prevent Liver Damage
Posted on June 30, 2009LEARN MORE FDA- Acetaminophen Overdose and Liver Injury Backgrounder - May 2009 FDA- on emergency room visits due to acetaminophen - 2002 CDC- Acute Liver Failure and Acetaminophen - 2007 Johnson & Johnson Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Tylenol and Extra Strength/ author: Ragesoss An expert panel convened to advise the U...
E. Coli Found In Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough
Posted on June 30, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - on E. coli bacterium InjuryBoard News - First Contaminated Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough Lawsuit - June 2009 InjuryBoard News - Nestle Toll House Recall - June 2009 InjuryBoard News - E. Coli Recall In 11 States - Health Risk High - June 2009 Injuryboard on E...
Did Turbulent Flight Kill Billy Mays?
Posted on June 29, 2009Preceeded His Death LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - Head and Brain Injuries InjuryBoard- Help Center - Ski Resort Liability Huffington Post story on brain trauma InjuryBoard - St. Cloud, MN - on Potential Head Injury IMAGE SOURCE: CBS News Web site/ Billy Mays You know him from his bombastic television ads for OxiClean and Orange Glo...
Study - Fatty Diet Linked To Pancreatic Cancer Risk
Posted on June 29, 2009Regions included in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study * LEARN MORE Journal of the National Cancer Institute, June 2009 National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study Mayo Clinic: Pancreatic Cancer American Cancer Society on Pancreatic Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: National Institutes of Health A new study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggests diets high in fat from red meat and dairy products can increase the risk for pancreatic cancer...
GM Accepts Product Liability for Future Claims
Posted on June 29, 2009Lexi James Concession To Move Forward LEARN MORE Lexi's van Lexi James memorial www.protestgm-chrysler.com Safety Research & Strategies Inc. Ad Debtors Objection Motion- June 26, 2009 InjuryBoard News - TV Ads Ask Congress To Protect Public From Chrysler GM Bankruptcies - June 2009 InjuryBoard News -Chrysler Consumers Hurt Twice, Now What?- June 2009 InjuryBoard News -Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under The Bus - June 2009 Center for Justice & Democracy- Chrysler GM Victims IMAGE SOURCE: American Center for Van and Tire Safety General Motors Corp...
Steve Jobs Returns To Work As Questions Continue To Surround His Liver Transplant
Posted on June 29, 2009LEARN MORE IB - Questions Surround Steve Jobs Liver Transplant Pancreatica American Cancer Society on Pancreatic Cancer Mayo Clinic on Liver Transplant OPTN Statement: Liver Transplant Waiting Times and Allocation United Network for Sharing Organs MELD and the Waiting List for Liver Transplant IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, Apple Inc...
Jackson: Drugs And The Missing Doctor
Posted on June 29, 2009Never Signed Death Certificate LEARN MORE Drug Enforcement Administration - Drug Abuse Dangers Drugs.com on Demerol InjuryBoard News - Drug Deaths Soar 360 Percent - July 2008 Safe Medication Practices Injuryboard on drug overdoses Ledger autopsy result- Smoking Gun FDA stats on drug deaths National Institute on Drug Abuse Injuryboard on OxyContin Drugs...
E. Coli Beef Recall Expanded
Posted on June 29, 2009High Alert Recall LEARN MORE Company's Consumer Hotline - (800) 685-6328 FSIS Recall Notice Injuryboard on E. coli Injuryboard on Food Product Safety InjuryBoard News - E. Coli Beef Recall of 96,000 Pounds - May 2009 InjuryBoard News - Nestle Toll House Dough Recall - June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ cows eating regularly minimizes E...
Cardiac Arrest Kills Quickly
Posted on June 26, 2009People Don't Know What To Do LEARN MORE American Heart Association AHA- CPR/AED training online American Red Cross on AED training Heartstart Home Defibrillators Circulation - Therapeutic Hypothermia, 2003 The Zapper State laws and AED placement InjuryBoard News - Sudden Cardiac Death: Defibrillator Training Encouraged To Save Lives - June 2008 New England Journal of Medicine on public use of AEDs IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Street defibrillator/ author: Snowdog While the cause of Michael Jackson's apparent cardiac arrest won't be known for weeks, what is known is that the sudden stopping of a heart can happen for many reasons - choking, drug overdose, or trauma, among them...
Family Lawyer Blames Medication Abuse For Jackson Death
Posted on June 26, 2009Initial Autopsy Results Due Today LEARN MORE FDA stats on drug deaths National Institute on Drug Abuse Injuryboard on prescription drug deaths Injuryboard on Prescription drugs Injuryboard on OxyContin Drugs.com - Morphine National Institute on Drug Abuse IMAGE SOURCE: CNN/ Michael Jackson/ Web site An autopsy has been scheduled for today and preliminary results should be released this afternoon into the death of musical mega-star Michael Jackson, 50, who collapsed at home Thursday, reportedly in the presence of his personal physician...
Teen's School Strip Search Unconstitutional
Posted on June 25, 2009Savana Redding School Officials Not Liable LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Court Rules Strip Search of Arizona Teen Unconstitutional - July 2008 Supreme Court of the United States - Safford Unified School District v. Redding- Syllabus Redding v. Safford National Association of Social Workers Brief ACLU Press Release IMAGE SOURCE: Savana Redding/ New York Times Web site The U...
EPA - Two Million Americans Face Cancer Risk From Toxic Air
Posted on June 25, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Air Pollution InjuryBoard on Toxic Substances IB - Cleaner Air Translates To Longer Life, Jan. 2009 County by County Cancer Risk Map EPA - Pollutants in your area National Air Toxic Assessments (NATA) IMAGE SOURCE: USA Today / EPA National Air Toxic Assessment A newly released report by the U...
Generic Plan B Contraceptive Approved For Teens
Posted on June 25, 2009Approved For Teens Under 17 LEARN MORE FDA Statement on Plan B InjuryBoard News - Plan B Contraceptive Available Without Prescriptions - March 2009 News, Should Contraceptives be allowed in school? October 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ teen and pills The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic version of the Plan B by prescription for women ages 17 and under...
Comcast Pulls Consumer Ads Critical Of GM Bankruptcy
Posted on June 25, 2009Comcast Pulls Ads That Urge Consumer Protection LEARN MORE www.protestgm-chrysler.com Safety Research & Strategies Inc. Ad InjuryBoard News - TV Ads Ask Congress To Protect Public From Chrysler GM Bankruptcies - June 2009 InjuryBoard News -Chrysler Consumers Hurt Twice, Now What?- June 2009 InjuryBoard News -Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under The Bus - June 2009 Center for Justice & Democracy- Chrysler GM Victims IMAGE SOURCE: Television ad/ SRS Web site Media giants have been known to pull advertising when the rich and powerful request it...
FDA Warns Salmonella Pistachios May Still Be On Shelves
Posted on June 24, 2009Pistachio Recall Reissued LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News -Salmonella Sprout Recall in Six States, March 2008 FDA - on Pistachio Product Recalls Injuryboard on Salmonella Injuryboard on Food Poisoning FDA database - Recalled products with pistachios InjuryBoard News - NY Pistachio Plant May Be Source of Salmonella - April 2009 IB News - Salmonella Victim Speaks Out, January 2009 Childlers, and Schlueter L...
Older Washington D.C. Metro Cars Never Replaced
Posted on June 24, 2009Brakes, Inexperience, Aging Cars LEARN MORE Federal Railroad Administration NTSB - Web site InjuryBoard Partner, Rick Shapiro, Northern Virginia/DC - Railroad Injury Lawyer / former head of the American Association for Justice Railroad Law section American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Rail Division IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Red Line New York Avenue Metro Station, Washington D...
Faulty Circuitry In Metro Tracks Found
Posted on June 24, 2009Faulty Circuitry Identified LEARN MORE Federal Railroad Administration NTSB - Web site InjuryBoard News - Older Metro Cars Never Replaced, June 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Red Line New York Avenue Metro Station, Washington D.C. / author: Ben Schumin, November 2004 In looking for the causes of a Metro train crash on Monday that killed nine people, investigators are focusing on what might be a faulty section of track circuitry, reports the New York Times...
Study - Doctors Often Fail To Warn Patients About Abnormal Test Results
Posted on June 23, 2009LEARN MORE Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2009 National Patient Safety Foundation InjuryBoard on Medical Errors IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto / author: Twohumans The old adage, 'no news is good news,' may not be entirely true when it comes to your health...
Big Insurance Voices Opposition To Public Plan
Posted on June 23, 2009Big Insurance Speaks Up On Healthcare Reform LEARN MORE America's Health Insurance Plans -Web site Center for Media & Democracy Web site IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ President Barack Obama Big Insurance has issued a strong statement opposing the public health insurance option promoted by President Obama...
First Contaminated Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough Lawsuit As Inspectors Search For Clues
Posted on June 23, 2009LEARN MORE Nestle Toll House- Web site CDC Update, June 22 FDA Warning, June 19 Injuryboard on E. coli Injuryboard on E. coli loophole Injuryboard on Food Product Safety IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Toll House Cookies on a sheet/ author: Kevin Laver Nestle Cookie Dough Update, Lawsuit The first lawsuit has been filed by an 18-year-old who ate Nestle cookie dough raw and was hospitalized for a week...
Migraine With Aura Linked To Brain Lesions In Women
Posted on June 23, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA, June 2009 InjuryBoard on Headaches MAGNUM: The National Migraine Association American Headache Society InjuryBoard Migraine News IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / headache sufferer / author: Kaisphoto New research suggests women who suffer from migraines with aura are at a greater risk of brain lesions when they are older...
ADHD Stimulant Drug Overdoses In Iowa
Posted on June 22, 2009ADHD Drug Overdoses LEARN MORE American Journal of Psychiatry- Editorial "Stimulant Treatment of ADHD and Risk of Sudden Death in Children," June 2009 FDA Alert in reaction The Gazette InjuryBoard News - Are Brain Boosters A Good Idea? - December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ pencil case & drugs/ author: TACrafts An increasing number of young people from Eastern Iowa appear to be abusing drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD...
Fluffy And Fido May Be Harboring MRSA
Posted on June 22, 2009They Can Get It Too LEARN MORE USF Health Lancet - Bite-related and septic syndromes caused by cats and dogs, June 2009 InjuryBoard News - MRSA Rates Cut After Nose Swabs- October 2008 For more information: (800) CDC-INFO CDC on MRSA MRSA Education Initiative EPA products effective against MRSA IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Fox terrier and kitten/ author: Prskavka MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections are known to like dark, damp places to grow and colonize...
Green Tea Fights Prostate Cancer
Posted on June 22, 2009Green Tea Research LEARN MORE Cancer Prevention Research - article InjuryBoard Help Center - Prostate Cancer- Diagnosis Errors Journal of the National Cancer Institute - August 12, 2008 Issue National Cancer Institute on Prostate Cancer Polyphenon Pharma IMAGE SOURCE: © WikiMedia Commons/ Created by US government agency National Cancer Institute Green tea has been shown to have prostate cancer fighting properties...
Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant
Posted on June 22, 2009LEARN MORE Pancreatica American Cancer Society on Pancreatic Cancer Mayo Clinic on Liver Transplant IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Steve Jobs Apple Inc...
Kids Not On A Plane
Posted on June 19, 2009LEARN MORE Parent Blogs About Airline Mishap Houston Chronicle IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / author: Bolot Two unaccompanied girls placed on wrong Continental Flights within two days...
Nestle Toll House Dough Recall
Posted on June 19, 2009Nestle Recall of Toll House Cookie Dough LEARN MORE Nestle Toll House- Web site FDA -Press release of Toll House warning Injuryboard on E. coli Injuryboard on E. coli loophole Injuryboard on Food Product Safety IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Toll House Cookies on a sheet/ author: Kevin Laver Consumers are being warned by the federal Food and Drug Administration not to consume the popular Nestle Toll House prepackaged, refrigerated cookie dough...
Medtronic's $800k Consultant
Posted on June 18, 2009Medtronic's Army Doctor LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Doctor Falsified Infuse Study, Army Says - May 2009 InjuryBoard News - Medtronic Heart Device Fatalities - April 2009 InjuryBoard News - Federal Judge Cites Preemption In Dismissal of Medtronic Suits - January 2009 Medtronic Web site on Infuse InjuryBoard Medtronic News IB - Medtronics Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Alleges Conflicts, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Dr...
Pilot Dies On International Flight
Posted on June 18, 2009Fast Thinking Co-Pilots Land Safely LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Dies of Heart Attack Mid-Flight - April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Continental Boeing 777/ author: Arpingstone It was an uneventful flight, at first...
NUTRO Dry Cat Food Zinc Levels "Sky High"
Posted on June 18, 2009An Error In Production LEARN MORE NUTRO on recall Pet Food Products Safety Alliance - Web site Pet Food Institute - lobbying organization IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ 8 week old kittens/ author: Adriano A non-profit group has tested the controversial, recalled NUTRO cat food and finds the levels of zinc are "sky high" enough to cause kidney and liver damage, and gastrointestinal problems...
Air France Wreckage May Never Be Found
Posted on June 17, 2009The Search Continues LEARN MORE Safety Foundation Web site Air France- Press release on Pitot probes Injuryboard News - No Hope of Finding Air France Flight- June 2009 Air France Web site InjuryBoard News - Runway Accidents Most Common - December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Air France A330 / Telegraph UK Web site Investigators believe it is unlikely they will recover the entire Air France plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 on board...
2007 Pet Food Melamine Contamination Case Closed
Posted on June 17, 2009Tainted Pet Food Convictions LEARN MORE Department of Justice - News Release Department of Justice - News Release InjuryBoard - Childers & Schlueter L.L.P. -Menu Food Recall InjuryBoard - Wayne Parsons - Melamine Contamination, Food Poisoning and Foreign Products - November 2008 Pet Food Product Safety Alliance Web site IMAGE SOURCE:©iStockphoto/ puppies eating The owners of a Nevada pet food company pled guilty in federal court Tuesday of distributing tainted ingredients intended for pet food that led to a nationwide recall in and the deaths of countless pets...
TV Ads Ask Congress To Protect Public From Chrysler GM Bankruptcies
Posted on June 17, 2009Hoping For Congressional Intervention LEARN MORE TV Ad Safety Research & Strategies Inc. Victim Stories InjuryBoard News -Chrysler Consumers Hurt Twice, Now What?- June 2009 InjuryBoard News - Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under The Bus - June 2009 Consumer Groups - Letter to President Obama Center for Justice & Democracy- Chrysler GM Victims IMAGE SOURCE: Television ad/ SRS Web site New television ads will begin running in the Washington D...
EPA - Public Health Emergency Declared In Libby, Montana
Posted on June 17, 2009LEARN MORE EPA News Release IB - Asbestos Town Goes To Court, March 2009 EPA on Libby, Montana W.R. Grace Trial Coverage CERCLA Overview IMAGE SOURCE: W...
VA Blasted Over Tainted Procedures
Posted on June 17, 2009LEARN MORE Veterans Affairs Inspector General Report (PDF) House Veterans' Affairs Committee Hearing IB - Columbia, South Carolina, 10,000 Veterans Possibly At Risk After Medical Procedure With Unsterilized Equipment, April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: U...
Skin Cancer Cream Fights Wrinkles
Posted on June 16, 2009LEARN MORE Archives of Dermatology, June 2009 NLM on Squamous Cell Carcinoma The U.S. National Cancer Institute offers skin cancer prevention tips IMAGE SOURCE: Efudex / Valeant Pharmaceuticals A cream used to treat the early signs of skin cancer may also reverse signs of aging leaving behind younger-looking skin, a small study in the Archives of Dermatology, reveals...
Obama Speaks To Doctors About Reform, Liability
Posted on June 16, 2009Reforming Medicine And LiabilityLEARN MOREIB Voices- Cecelia Prewett- Debunking the Myth of Defensive MedicineInjuryBoard News - Medical Errors, A Report Card - April 2008Public Citizen- Ranks State Medical Boards, 2006-2008Public Citizen on Five Percent of Doctors, September 2002InjuryBoard- Help Center - Medical Malpractice InjuryBoard News - Hospitals Apologize to Lower Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, March 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: ABC News Web site/ President Obama at the AMA President Obama took the topic of reforming health care directly to the doctors who deliver it in a speech to the American Medical Association Monday...
FDA Crackdown on Zicam
Posted on June 16, 2009Zicam Nasal Cold Remedy LEARN MORE FDA on Zicam- Fact Sheet FDA - Adverse Events Matrixx Initiatives - Statement Zicam- Message to consumers Facts about Zicam- from Web site Homeopathic Pharmacopia of the United States IMAGE SOURCE: Zicam/ Zicam Web site For fans who won't leave home without it, the news is bad for their favorite cold remedy, Zicam...
Study - Rare Deaths Linked To ADHD Drugs
Posted on June 15, 2009LEARN MORE American Journal of Psychiatry (PDF) FDA News Release NIMH on ADHD Ritalin Death InjuryBoard on Ritalin IB – Do ADHD Drugs Improve School Scores? April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Methylphenidate chemical diagram / author: Ryanaxp A new study published online in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests there may be an association between the use of stimulant medications prescribed to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, and sudden cardiac death in healthy children...
Agent Cool Blue - Reformulated But Problem-Free?
Posted on June 15, 2009LEARN MORE Kayla Hess More on enterobactar cloacae More on serratia marcescens More on klebsiella oxytoca More on pseudomonas flurorescens Smith, Vanture & Rivera, LLP FDA Recall Notice - April 2007 Hess v. McNeill-PPC Agent Blue - Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Agent Blue - Web site / Listerine Two years ago, 10-year-old Kayla Hess was doing well in her West Palm Beach, Florida school...
Chrysler Consumers Hurt Twice - Now What?
Posted on June 15, 2009Amanda Dinnigan, age 10 The New Chrysler LEARN MORE Langdon & Emison Didier Law Firm Consumers groups - writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court Safety Research & Strategies Center for Justice & Democracy Center for Auto Safety IMAGE SOURCE: Amanda Dinnigan/ Amanda's Page Web site Under the Chrysler bankruptcy announced last week, the automaker is relieved of all ongoing accident claims due to defects from a roof, seat belts, or any component that breaks and causes injury or death...
New Legislation Gives FDA Authority to Regulate Tobacco
Posted on June 12, 2009LEARN MORE Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids InjuryBoard Tobacco News InjuryBoard on Cigarettes and Tobacco CDC on Smoking & Tobacco Use American Cancer Society on Tobacco Use IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / quit smoking / author: RobHadfield A new bill giving the federal government sweeping new powers to regulate tobacco passed the House in a 307-97 vote Friday, following a 79-17 Senate vote, the day prior...
Chrysler GM Throws Consumers Under The Bus
Posted on June 12, 200940 Million Reasons To Sell Your Chrysler GM Vehicle LEARN MORE Consumer Groups - Letter to President Obama Center for Justice & Democracy- Chrysler GM Victims IMAGE SOURCE: Amanda Dinnigan, age 10/ faulty seat belt accident February 2007/ author: Center for Justice & Democracy Web site Alongside all the hoopla heard this week about Fiat's acquisition of Chrysler, a little known sub-plot is emerging that is bad news for owners of 40 million GM and Chrysler autos currently on the road and for those hurt by the company's cars...
HPV Vaccine Gardasil Must Warn Of Fainting
Posted on June 11, 2009Gardasil Warning Upgraded LEARN MORE CDC - HPV Safety Update FDA - on VAERS Judicial Watch - on Gardasil Merck - News on Gardasil, May 2009 FDA - Label Revision for Gardasil IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ girl being vaccinated/ author: pflorendo The Merck drug featured in the "One Less" campaign has been updated to receive a warning about the potential for fainting...
Swine Flu Now Officially A Pandemic
Posted on June 11, 2009Swine Flu Now Officially A Pandemic LEARN MORE CDC - on Swine Flu WHO - Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Swine Flu in Hong Kong/ New York Times Web site The World Health Organization (WHO) is moving the worldwide swine flu pandemic up to a Phase 6, which describes a full-scale pandemic...
Colorectal Cancer Rates Up, Globally
Posted on June 11, 2009LEARN MORE Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, June 2009 InjuryBoard Colon Cancer Help Center InjuryBoard Colon Cancer News U...
FDA Considers Atyical Anti-Psychotics For Children, Teens
Posted on June 10, 2009FDA Considers Psychiatric Drugs For Kids LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - FDA Mandates Black Box Warning On Older Antipsychotics - June 2008 InjuryBoard News - What To Do With A Risky Drug - Give It To Kids - December 2007 Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health Zyprexa Olanzapine NIMH: Antipsychotic Medications IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / Risperdal / author: Housed Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday will consider whether powerful psychiatric drugs should be used in children, despite the dangers...
Texting While Driving Illegal In 13 States
Posted on June 10, 2009Federal Ban Considered As Momentum Grows LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Driving While Texting Laws Slow To Catch Up To Problem - September 2008 Injuryboard on texting addiction Injuryboard on teens ignore ban on cellphone while driving Injuryboard on addiction treatment Injuryboard on antidepressants American Journal of Psychiatry article IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ texting teens/ author: LeggNet Last fall the conductor of a commuter train in the Los Angeles area ran a red signal while texting...
Study Offers Promise For Predicting Risk Of Diabetes
Posted on June 09, 2009Diabetes Icon LEARN MORE The Lancet, June 2009 InjuryBoard on Diabetes Drugs Injuryboard on Diabetes American Diabetes Association IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Diabetes Icon New research, presented at the American Association of Diabetes conference, suggests blood glucose and insulin sensitivity begins to change several years before the onset of diabetes...
Trying To Bird-Proof Airline Flights
Posted on June 09, 2009Bird-Proofing Flight LEARN MORE FAA data on bird-strikes NTSB - Live Webcast NTSB - background information IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Canada goose/ author: Alan Wilson Last January, the dramatic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 made the nation aware of the dangers birds pose to airliners approaching and leaving airports...
Treated For Cancer? Study Discourages Antioxidant Supplements
Posted on June 09, 2009Breast Cancer Survivors/© iStockphoto To Supplement Or Not? LEARN MORE The journal Cancer - Prevalence and Predictors of antioxidant supplement use during breast cancer treatment The Cancer Project Web site American Institute for Cancer Research BMI calculation The China Study - book, Web site Scientific Blogging - on Green tea extract AICR report ASCO - on vitamin D ASCO- on vitamin E ASCO - on antioxidants during radiation IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / Breast Cancer Survivors / author: JBryson Being treated for cancer generally means preparing your body for the fight of your life...
Carradine Death Reminiscent of Teen Choking Game
Posted on June 08, 2009Carradine Death Reminiscent of Teen Choking Game LEARN MORE IB News - One Mom's Story of the Fatal Choking Game - February 2008 DB Foundation - Choking Game web site CDC report, February 15, 2008 Morbidity and Mortality IB Partner, St. Cloud, MN - Kinky Sex Gone Horribly Wrong? - June 2009 GASP Web site GASP video IMAGE SOURCE: MSNBC Web site / image of Kevin Tork Image of Luke Austin, Courtesy Jeanne Marcum The mysterious death of actor David Carradine last week is reminiscent of "The Choking Game" that leads teens, primarily young boys, to choke themselves to dizziness as the blood flow is reduced to the brain...
Rescue, Blind Pedestrian Dangers Posed By Hybrids
Posted on June 08, 2009Lexus GS 450h Hybrid, 2006 Hybrids Silent Danger LEARN MORE Marquette General Hospital Web site PC Magazine- Hybrid Myths debunked Toyota Guide for hybrid vehicles IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Lexus GS 450h Hybrid on display at US Open, 2006/ author: Graffiti by Numbers As hybrids emerge as the car most likely to beat the rising cost of gasoline, safety proponents say they pose problems for the blind and emergency crews trying to help you following an accident...
Study - Medical Bills Lead To 60 Percent Of Bankruptcies
Posted on June 08, 2009LEARN MORE The American Journal of Medicine, June 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - on Managed Care and Insurance Companies IMAGE SOURCE:© iStockphoto / medical solutions / author: gmutlu Many Americans are facing financial ruins due to high medical bills...
Few Clues To Air France Crash, More Bodies Found
Posted on June 08, 2009Brazilian Air Force recovery team, Courtesy Agencia Brasil LEARN MORE Flight Safety Foundation Web site Air France- Press release on Pitot probes Injuryboard News - No Hope of Finding Air France Flight- June 2009 Air France Web site InjuryBoard News - Runway Accidents Most Common - December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Brazilian Air Force crew of a C-130 Hercules searching for wreckage of Air France Flight # 447/ author: Agencia Brasil 17 Bodies Recovered The recovery of Air France Flight 447 has now yielded 17 bodies but few clues as to why the jetliner, with 228 aboard, crashed in the Atlantic one week ago...
Prevalance Of Tourette Syndrome, CDC Study
Posted on June 05, 2009LEARN MORE MMWR, June 3, 2009 Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Collage representing groups affected by Tourette syndrome / author: Optigan13 A new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimates that three in every 1,000 children in the United States suffers from Tourette's syndrome...
New TB Drug Shows Promise In Clinical Trials
Posted on June 04, 2009LEARN MORE NEJM, June 2009 J&J Press Release InjuryBoard on Tuberculosis WHO on Tuberculosis IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons/ lungs/ author: Gray's Anatomy First New Tuberculosis Drug in 40 Years The results of an ongoing study of the experimental drug TMC207 have been released, by Johnson & Johnson...
Canine Cancer Drug Approved By FDA
Posted on June 04, 2009LEARN MORE Pfizer Animal Health Pfizer Press Release Cure Canine Cancer American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / puppies / author: LivingImages Canine Cancer Drug Approved One in four dogs dies of cancer...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Reduce Depression in Teens
Posted on June 03, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA - Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents, June 2009 InjuryBoard – Teen Issues InjuryBoard on Depression InjuryBoard on Emotional Problems IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / author: aldomurillo A new study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests a cognitive behavioral program for teens at risk of depression may help prevent future depressive episodes while helping them to better deal with their problems...
The E-Cigarette Controversy
Posted on June 03, 2009E-Cigarettes May Be Bad For Your Health LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - U.S. Smoking Rates Decline Below 20 Percent - November, 2008 Injuryboard Help Center on cigarettes and tobacco Injuryboard News -Teens quitting smoking, December 2008 MMWR: Cigarette Smoking Among Adults U...
Study - Brain Lapses In Learning During Perimenopause
Posted on June 02, 2009The Menopausal Brain LEARN MORE UCLA - Press release American Academy of Neurology UCLA Division of Geriatrics InjuryBoard, Mobile - FDA Warns About False Claims for some Menopause Therapy Drugs, January 2008 InjuryBoard, Honolulu - Prempro and Breast Cancer - April 2009 InjuryBoard News - Study Links Hormone Use To Breast Cancer - December 2008 Injuryboard on HRT Dr...
Study - More Polyps Found During Deep Sleep
Posted on June 02, 2009LEARN MORE American Gastroenterological Association InjuryBoard Colon Cancer Help Center InjuryBoard Colon Cancer News U...
Remains of Airliner Found Off Brazilian Coast
Posted on June 02, 2009Debris sited LEARN MORE InjuryBoard, Miami- Debris Found - June 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Airline Accidents and In-Flight Injuries Injuryboard News - No Hope of Finding Air France Flight- June 2009 Air France Web site InjuryBoard News - Runway Accidents Most Common - December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: CNN Web page/ image of Michael and Anne Harris aboard flight from Rio to Paris Remains of an airplane have been spotted in the sea near where Air France Flight 447 is believed to have disappeared Sunday night on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris...
The HRT Lung Cancer Risk
Posted on June 01, 2009LEARN MORE American Society of Clinical Oncology- annual meeting Press release on Lung Cancer -ASCO ASCO - cancer videos Cancer.net- patient options IMAGE SOURCE: Olivia Newton-John video for ACSO Is there a link between hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer? Hormone replacement therapy or HRT was routinely used to treat the symptoms of menopause until a link was found to breast cancer, stroke and blood clots...
No Hope of Finding Air France Flight
Posted on June 01, 2009Air France Flight 447 LEARN MORE Wikipedia - Airbus 330 Air France Web site InjuryBoard News - Runway Accidents Most Common - December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Air France A330 / Telegraph UK Web site Officials now say there is "no hope" of finding Air France Flight 447 that left Rio de Janeiro last night on a flight to Paris...
Florida Probes Psychiatric Drug Prescriptions Among Foster Care Children
Posted on May 29, 2009Gabriel Myers Foster Children Put On Drugs LEARN MORE Department of Children and Families Miami Herald - Story of Gabriel Myer, February 15, 2009 National Coalition for Child Protection Reform Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Department of Children and Families report on Gabriel Myers Seven-year-old Gabriel Myers was taken into foster care in Broward County, Florida last June...
Pregnancy Weight Guidelines Updated
Posted on May 29, 2009LEARN MORE IOM - Weight Gain During Pregnancy - Reexamining the Guidelines InjuryBoard on Obesity BMI Calculator IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto / pregnant woman / author: Aldomurillo The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has issued new pregnancy weight guidelines for the first time since 1990...
Stronger Warnings On Tylenol And Liver Toxicity
Posted on May 29, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Notice on additional labeling, April 28, 2009 CDER report - February 26, 2008 Federal Register - FDA new rule on labeling, April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ bottles of Tylenol/ author: Ragesoss The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a ruling requiring drug makers to change their warning label on painkiller acetaminophen concerning the potential for liver damage and internal bleeding - but advisors think it may not go far enough...
Consumer Groups Pushing J&J To Remove Chemicals From Baby Shampoo
Posted on May 28, 2009LEARN MORE No More Toxic Tub (pdf) Toxic Tub: Product Test Results SAFE HOME 101 - Consumer Guide to Safe Shampoos IB News, Carcinogens Found In Several Children's Bath Products, March 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / little girl in the tub / author: Texxter A coalition of organizations has asked Johnson & Johnson to remove two chemicals considered probable human carcinogens, from its baby shampoo and other personal care products...
$2 Million Awarded In Psychiatric Indifference Case
Posted on May 28, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - A New Low of Indifference - Hospital Staff Ignores Dying Woman- July, 2008 Injuryboard on corporate indifference Injuryboard on Indifference toward beating victim Injuryboard on Endoscopy Center Indifference Injuryboard on Merck Indifference IMAGE SOURCE: Associated Press /YouTube/ Videotape of Green ( graphic) The family of a woman, who was found dead on a New York City psychiatric hospital emergency room floor, has received a $2 million settlement as part of a wrongful-death lawsuit...
High Court Clears Way For Vioxx Investor Litigation
Posted on May 27, 2009LEARN MORE Supreme Court docket Merck Web site Vioxx related Securities litigation IMAGE SOURCE: Merck ad for Vioxx featuring Dorothy Hamill Merck Sued By Investors For Fraud Add one more lawsuit for Merck to fight over the recalled painkiller, Vioxx...
Drug And Device Makers Must Follow New FDA Guidelines
Posted on May 27, 2009LEARN MORE FDA - Guidance for Industry InjuryBoard News - Dr. Sharfstein calls for OTC drug regulations, October 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: FDA Drug and medical device makers hoping to win quick approval from federal regulators have some new guidelines to note...
Study - Pertussis Risk Higher For Unvaccinated Children
Posted on May 27, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics, June 2009 CDC on Pertussis (Whooping Cough) IB, Honolulu, Ask Questions and Investigate Before Getting Multiple Vaccinations, Nov...
Teens Texting Hurts Sleep, Maturity
Posted on May 27, 2009Teens and Texting LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - R U Addicted 2 Texting? - March, 2008 Harris Interactive Poll InjuryBoard News - Teens ignore Ban on Cellphone While Driving - June, 2008 InjuryBoard Help Center on addiction treatment InjuryBoard Help Center on antidepressants American Journal of Psychiatry article IMAGE SOURCE:© iStockphoto/ teen texting/ roundhill InjuryBoard News has reported on the problems of texting and the attention it takes from driving...
Daniel Hauser Back Home, Court Hearing Today
Posted on May 26, 2009LEARN MORE Video – Colleen & Daniel Hauser Brown Co. court documents - Finding of Fact Transcript of Daniel Hauser's Testimony - April 2009 Guardian ad Litem – Argument Hodgkin's Lymphoma - National Cancer Institute IMAGE SOURCE: Daniel Hauser from StarTribune Web site A week long search ended Monday when Colleen and Daniel Hauser returned home to Minnesota after turning themselves into authorities with the assistance of a lawyer in California...
New FDA Head Must Divest Medical Stocks
Posted on May 26, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Dr. Sharfstein calls for OTC drug regulations, October 2008 Nuclear Threat Initiative IMAGE SOURCE: Time Magazine, profile of Hamburg The woman named by the Obama administration to head the Food and Drug Administration will first have to unload some of her wealth that comes from medical companies...
Mike Tyson's Daughter Very Critical After Treadmill Accident
Posted on May 26, 2009LEARN MORE Consumer Reports on Dangers in the Home CPSC - May 2005 report InjuryBoard Sacramento - Consumer Alert - Treadmills pose a danger to children, December, 2006 IMAGE SOURCE: ABC News Web site Boxer Mike Tyson's four-year-old daughter is on life support after an accident on a treadmill in her Phoenix, Arizona home Monday...
Problems With Prius?
Posted on May 26, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard, Paducah - Top Ten Automobile Defects - January, 2008 Consumer Affairs Web site - database on Prius IMAGE SOURCE: Westword Web site/ Prius in a river Problems With Prius Paul Knight of the Houston Press reports on Bobette Riner, who bought a new Prius during the recent gasoline hike that had everyone thinking fuel-efficiency...
Harvard Study Confirms Plastic Bottles Leach BPA
Posted on May 22, 2009Plastic Bottles Leach BPA LEARN MORE Environmental Health Perspectives - Potential for Bioaccumulation BPA, May 2009 EHP - Feminization of Fish- May, 2009 InjuryBoard News - Safe Home 101, Stores Removing Baby Products That Contain BPA - June, 2008 FDA on Bisphenol-A (BPA) Baby bottles care Injuryboard on plastic ban in California Injuryboard on phthalates chemical in plastics JAMA - Full Text of report Environmental Health Sciences Web site National Toxicology Program on BPA Injuryboard- Safe Home101 on Avoiding BPA Injuryboard News on BPA T Theo Colburn, Our Stolen Future Alternet story on BPA American Chemistry Council IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ baby boy and bottle/ author: Matthias Sebulke This study comes from the Harvard School of Public Health and is the first to confirm that drinking from plastic water bottles increases the amount of a chemical plasticizer that leaches into the body...
CDC - Swine Flu Immunity Seen In Older People
Posted on May 22, 2009LEARN MORE MMWR – 5/22/09 InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State CDC - Latest on swine flu WHO H1N1 News IMAGE SOURCE: World Health Organization (WHO) New test results show what scientists have suspected – some people over 60 are likely to posses greater immunity to the H1N1 swine flu, said federal researchers on Thursday...
E. Coli Beef Recall Of 96,000 Pounds
Posted on May 22, 2009Class One Recall LEARN MORE FSIS on recall Injuryboard on E. coli Injuryboard on E. coli loophole Injuryboard on Food Product Safety IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ cows eating regularly minimizes E. coli/ USDA, Agriculture Research Service A high alert beef recall has an Illinois meat producer at the center of an E...
Big Bonuses Paid To Departing Schering Execs
Posted on May 21, 2009LEARN MORE Schering Plough Web site Merck statement on the merger InjuryBoard News - Merck's Acquisition of Schering-Plough - March 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: WSJ Online Web site With all eyes recently on the hefty bonuses collected by those leaving Wall Street, drug maker Schering-Plough is not far behind...
Death Knell To Federal Preemption Restores Citizen Rights
Posted on May 21, 2009LEARN MORE President Obama memo on federal pre-emption AAJ Web site U.S, Chamber of Commerce Web site Wyeth brief Levine Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Injuryboard on Levine issues Wyeth brief, May 2008 Injuryboard on preemption Federal Preemption Constitutional discussion IMAGE SOURCE : iStockphoto/ gavel In a reversal to years of Bush administration moves to concentrate federal power at the expense of citizen and states' rights, President Barack Obama Wednesday called for sweeping changes to federal pre-emption that shields companies from lawsuits over their dangerous and defective products...
Chinese Drywall Suspicions Confirmed By EPA Tests
Posted on May 20, 2009Corrosion inside Chinese-wallboard home EPA Tests Drywall LEARN MORE Sen. Nelson praises CPSC change- Press Release - May, 2009 Florida Dept. of Health - Web site on Chinese drywall EPA report on drywall InjuryBoard News - U.S. Senators Seek Ban On Domestic Drywall - March, 2009 InjuryBoard News - Lawsuits Fly Over Chinese Drywall - February, 2009 InjuryBoard on Chinese Drywall News IB Regional partner- Wayne Parsons, Honolulu IB Regional partner - Joe Saunders, St...
Judge Issues Arrest Warrant For Mom In Daniel Hauser Case
Posted on May 20, 2009LEARN MORE Brown Co. court documents - Finding of Fact Transcript of Daniel Hauser's Testimony - April 2009 Guardian ad Litem – Argument Hodgkin's Lymphoma - National Cancer Institute IMAGE SOURCE: Daniel Hauser from MSNBC Web site A Minnesota judge has issued an arrest warrant for Colleen Hauser after she and Daniel did not appear for court yesterday...
Credit Card Rates Not Capped
Posted on May 20, 2009Credit Card Reform LEARN MORE Sen. Dodd Statement The Card Act of 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ credit card/ author: Channel R With an average family credit card debt of $7,300 in 2007, credit card reform has long been in the works...
Today's Cigarettes May Pack More Punch
Posted on May 19, 2009Cigarettes Pack More Punch LEARN MORE Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Dr. Burns Testimony - USA v. Philip Morris Altria Group- Philip Morris IMAGE SOURCE: Dr. David Burns/ San Diego Union Tribune Web site Cigarettes of today may pack more punch that lead to a certain type of lung cancer...
Wyeth Accused of Cheating Medicare
Posted on May 19, 2009LEARN MORE Department of Justice News Release InjuryBoard on Wyeth News InjuryBoard on Diana Levine Wyeth Pharmaceuticals IMAGE SOURCE: The Justice Department and sixteen states are accusing drug giant, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, of cheating Medicaid programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates by overcharging for two versions of its acid-reflux drug, Protonix...
Smoking Cigarettes - Most Devastating For Women
Posted on May 19, 2009Women and Smoking LEARN MORE American Thoracic Society Web site InjuryBoard News - U.S. Smoking Rates Decline Below 20 Percent - November, 2008 CDC report on smoking rates - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Injuryboard Help Center on cigarettes and tobacco American Legacy Foundation MMWR: Cigarette Smoking Among Adults U...
Antipsychotic Prescriptions For Children Drop
Posted on May 18, 2009Antipsychotic Use In Children Drops LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - What to do with a risky drug? Give it to children - December 2007 Injuryboard News - Harvard Psychiatrist on the hot seat for Conflict of Interest, November 2008 FDA - Atypical antipsychotics Medco Health Solutions - Web site SDI - Web site IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / Risperdal / author: Housed When Florida began requiring physicians to obtain approval from the state before prescribing antipsychotics to children under the age of six, something dramatic happened - prescriptions dropped 75 percent, according to statistics from the state Agency for Health Care Administration...
Later Retirement May Delay Dementia
Posted on May 18, 2009Workplace Stimulation May Fight Alzheimer's LEARN MORE Alzheimer's Association 1- 877-IS IT ALZ (877.474.8259). Alzheimer's Disease International The journal Neurology, May 13, 2009 Institute of Psychiatry Press Statement - King's College, London International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry...
NYC Principal - Sixth U.S. Death From Swine Flu
Posted on May 18, 2009LEARN MORE CDC Web site on swine flu InjuryBoard News - Swine Flu Not Linked To Smithfield Foods - May, 2009 InjuryBoard News - New Head CDC To Tackle Swine Flu, Morale - May, 2009 IB Partner - Shapiro, Cooper Lewis & Appleton, P.C. IMAGE SOURCE: ABC News Web site/ image of Asst...
Petition Filed Against Southwest Airlines For Passenger Poisoning
Posted on May 18, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard member, Alisa Brodkowitz InjuryBoard member leads the fight to hold Southwest Airlines accountable for passenger poisoning Airline passengers try to find answers after falling ill (video) IMAGE SOURCE: Southwest Airlines Twin sisters, Victoria Holsted and Valerie Vaughn, passengers aboard Southwest flight 1705 from Los Angeles, became seriously ill after a mist filled the passenger compartment of the aircraft during their January flight...
Judge Overrules Parents' Alternative Treatment For Cancer Teen
Posted on May 15, 2009Hodgkin's Lymphoma LEARN MORE Brown Co. court documents - Finding of Fact Transcript of Daniel Hauser's Testimony - April 2009 Guardian ad Litem - Argument Minnesota Judicial Branch Web site Official Web site - Nemenhah Band Hodgkin's Lymphoma- National Cancer Institute IMAGE SOURCE: Daniel Hauser from MSNBC Web site The parents of a 13-year-old cancer patient want him treated with alternative medicine as prescribed by their religion...
New Head CDC To Tackle Swine Flu, Morale
Posted on May 15, 2009LEARN MORE Atlanta Journal-Constitution on CDC and documents CDC Web site CDC on Swine Flu investigation InjuryBoard News - Tuberculosis Scare Lawyer Sues CDC, April 2009 InjuryBoard News - CDC Initiative on Avoiding MRSA, September 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: New York Daily News Web site/ Dr...
Swine Flu Not Linked To Smithfield Foods
Posted on May 15, 2009LEARN MORE Smithfield Foods CEO Statement NPPC News Release InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State CDC - Latest on Swine Flu WHO H1N1 News IMAGE SOURCE: Smithfield Foods, Inc...
Lawsuit Reveals Merck's Fake Vioxx Journals
Posted on May 14, 2009Merck's Fake Medical Journals LEARN MORE "The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine"- Phony medical journal Merck & Co. - Web site InjuryBoard News - Merck Settlement announced, November 2007 InjuryBoard News - Merck Busted for Ghostwriting Vioxx Studies, April 2008 Injuryboard on Vioxx Injuryboard on Merck & Co...
Low Pay For Regional Jet Pilots
Posted on May 14, 2009Second day of NTSB hearing LEARN MORE NTSB live hearings May 12-14, 2009 'FOIA Reading Room'-on cockpit rules, crew experience, stall recovery, cold weather operation and icing effects...
Doctor Falsified Infuse Study, Army Says
Posted on May 14, 2009LEARN MORE Medtronic Web site on Infuse InjuryBoard Medtronic News IB - Medtronics Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Alleges Conflicts, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Medtronic Web site on Infuse Bone Graft A former surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center made false claims about a bone-growth product sold by Medtronic Inc...
Face Paint Contaminated, Recalled
Posted on May 13, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Recall notice FDA MedWatch to report problems 1-800-FDA-1088 Mail to MedWatch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787 FAX 1-800-FDA-0178 IMAGE SOURCE: FDA Web site image of face paint Forget painting rosy cheeks on a child's face at parties - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling a commonly used face paint because of contamination...
Marketing Muscle Has Cheerios In Trouble With FDA
Posted on May 13, 2009A cereal or a drug? LEARN MORE FDA Warning Letter, May 5, 2009 National Consumers League IMAGE SOURCE: General Mills Web site Seizing boxes of Cheerios off store shelves? That is what General Mills is trying to avoid. Following a warning from the Food and Drug Administration, the company says it will fix the overpromises on the cereal's box...
Health Officials Urge Limiting Drug Use In Swine Flu Cases
Posted on May 13, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State CDC - Latest on Swine Flu WHO H1N1 News CDC - General Information about Swine Flu Outbreak of Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Tamiflu / author: Shizhao With swine flu still spreading, global health officials are warning countries to limit use of antiviral drugs, used to treat influenza, to only high-risk patients such as pregnant women and chronically ill patients to ensure adequate supplies...
Protestors Advocating Single-Payer Arrested
Posted on May 12, 2009Dirsuption of Congress LEARN MORE Single Payer FAQ by PNHP PBS Special - on Health Care CrisisCommonwealth Fund on healthcare reform Public Citizen - on Single-Payer System New England Journal of Medicine - Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada, 2003 IMAGE SOURCE: MSNBC Web site Five protestors were taken into custody at the Senate Finance Committee hearings today trying to address health care reform...
Is This Tenth Grader Being Held Under The Patriot Act?
Posted on May 12, 2009Patriot Act or Not LEARN MORE Video on Brasscheck Television ACLU on Patriot Act Library of Congress - Patriot Act DOJ - News release on arrest, May 09 IMAGE SOURCE: Image of Ashton Lundeby/ WRAL-TV The Patriot Act was created 45 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and civilians in commercial aircraft...
Bullying In The Workplace On The Rise
Posted on May 12, 2009LEARN MORE Workplace Bullying Institute Workplace Bullying Institute - Legislative Campaign Stop Bullying Now InjuryBoard - Long Island, Bullying, October 2008 InjuryBoard, Des Moines, Privacy Rights: Stalker Secrets and the terror of those stalked...
NTSB Investigates Fatal Crash Of Flight 3407
Posted on May 12, 2009Continental Connection Bombardier Q-400 Pilot Error And Procedures Questioned LEARN MORE **New- Transcript of last few minutes has been released. They talk about experience deicing. Capt. Marvin Renslow Colgan Air Web site InjuryBoard News - Continental Commuter Plane Crashes Killing Fifty, February 2009 InjuryBoard on Airline Accidents & Injuries Flight 3407 Info...
H1N1 Flu Cases Rise To 2,618 In The U.S.
Posted on May 11, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Swine Flu News H1N1 State by State CDC - Latest on swine flu WHO H1N1 News CDC -General Information about Swine Flu Outbreak of Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Symptoms of Swine Flu There have been three reported deaths from the H1N1 flu (Novel influenza A) in the United States, with 2,618 confirmed cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site...
Curbing Health Care Costs- Round 2
Posted on May 11, 2009Health Care Reform LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Health care reform top issue for voters, October 2008 InjuryBoard Help Center - on Managed Care and Insurance Companies Unpaid Health Care Strains Families IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ sick money/ author: Elnur The only agreement in recent years has been that health care costs cannot continue to rise...
Overeating, Not Lack Of Exercise Equals Obesity
Posted on May 11, 2009Overeating LEARN MORE BMI Calculation InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Help Center - on Type II Diabetes CDC on Obesity InjuryBoard News - CDC: Americans Have Packed On Pounds in 23 Years Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report - "F" as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing In America 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: ©Wikimedia Commons / waist circumference / author: Pharos, FDA Dietary Guidelines We've all seen sepia-tinted pictures of life in the mid 1940's and 1950's - none of the people pictured appear to be overweight...
Wal-Mart Settlement In Black Friday Trampling
Posted on May 08, 2009Black Friday Trampling LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Wal-Mart Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed For Black Friday Trampling - December, 2008 InjuryBoard News - Shoppers Stampede L.I. Wal-Mart Trampling Guard To Death - December, 2008 NY Post video Wal-Mart Web site General distain for the retailer - Walmartsucks...
What You Can Do To Avoid The Flu
Posted on May 08, 2009Avoid Flu - Boost Immunity LEARN MORE Bio on Dr. Susan Lark Dr. Lark on Weight Loss Dr. Lark Welcome and philosophy InjuryBoard News - Evidence Mounts Against Synthetic Hormone Replacement Therapy, March 2008 NEJM IMAGE SOURCE: Dr. Lark Web site, with permission from Healthy Directions LLC With swine flu cases in the U...
FDA Orders 'Black Box' Warning For Testosterone Gels
Posted on May 08, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release Men's Health Matters IMAGE SOURCE: FDA logo Stronger warnings will be added to two prescription-strength testosterone gel products following several reports of adverse effects in children who were inadvertently exposed to testosterone through contact with another person treated with these products...
Unemployment On The Rise, So Is Compromised Health
Posted on May 08, 2009Unemployment Hurts Health LEARN MORE U.S. Labor Department Health Note- Abstract May, 2009 InjuryBoard News - America's Ten Most Stressful Cities - December, 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ construction workers? Author: Paul Keheler Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health are releasing their findings about unemployment's impact on health just as the U...
Mexico City's Tough New Rules Hurt Business
Posted on May 07, 2009Mexico City Enforcing the Rules LEARN MORE WHO on swine flu CDC on flu spread IMAGE SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons/ Mexico City supermarket/ author: Eneas De Troya Mexico City and its population of 20 million people are slowly returning back to everyday life after a five-day shutdown to stop the spread of swine flu, but with afew new rules and regulations...
Are Drug-Coated Stents Safe and Effective? Study Says Yes
Posted on May 07, 2009Are Drug-Coated Stents Safe LEARN MORE NEJM - Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Drug-Eluting versus Bare-Metal Stents in Sweden, May, 2009 NEJM - Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents v Bare-Metal Stents in Acute Myocardial Infarction, May, 2009 NEJM - Paclitaxel-Eluding Stent for the Prevention of Coronary Restenosis, April, 2003 Circulation - Drug-Eluding Stent Update, January, 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: Boston Scientific Web site/ Taxus Express Coronary Stent System The controversy has been ongoing for cardiac patients confused whether to choose more expensive heart stents coated with drugs or those without...
Cirrus Fatalities Have Critics Questioning Safety
Posted on May 06, 2009Cirrus SR20 Editors Note* Journalist Lisa Brown provided the primary reporting for this story. Brown is a four time Emmy award-winning former television investigative reporter, and a private pilot with airplane, seaplane, helicopter, gyroplane, and glider ratings...
Lawsuit: Mentor Mesh For Urinary Incontinence
Posted on May 06, 2009Mentor Mesh For Urinary Incontinence LEARN MORE InjuryBoard- West Palm Beach, Mentor Litigation Expands, November, 2008 Aris Trans-Obturator Tape Web site FDA Public Health Notification, October, 2008 InjuryBoard News, Mentor ObTape the Focus of Growing Number of Lawsuits, January 2009 J...
First U.S. Facial Transplant Recipient Revealed
Posted on May 06, 2009LEARN MORE Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic News Release IB News - on facial reconstruction at Cleveland Clinic, December, 2008 InjuryBoard on organ transplant rejection ABC News on French woman with partial face transplant IMAGE SOURCE: © Connie Culp at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic...
NuvaRing Alleged In Woman's Death
Posted on May 05, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on NuvaRing NuvaRing Web site Public Citizen Petition to Ban Third-Generation Birth Control Pills IMAGE SOURCE: NuvaRing Is NuvaRing to blame for Jackie Bozicev's death? Her husband believes so...
Study: Cancer Spike 45 Percent In Next 20 Years
Posted on May 05, 2009LEARN MORE M.D. Anderson Cancer Center BMI calculation AICR report J. of Clinical Oncology- Abstract The Lancet Oncology InjuryBoard on Cancer InjuryBoard Cancer FAQ American Cancer Society IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto/ Cancer Center /author: BradenGunem With the cause of cancer still largely unknown, cases are expected to spike in the next 20 years...
Dallas Cowboys Facility Collapses Injuring 12
Posted on May 04, 2009LEARN MORE Dallas Cowboys Press Briefing Video InjuryBoard Help Center - Spinal Cord Injuries IMAGE SOURCE: Congressman Elijah E...
FDA Warning: Recall of Hydroxycut Products
Posted on May 04, 2009Recall of Hydroxycut Products LEARN MORE Council for Responsible Nutrition statement Iovate Health Sciences statement Lawsuits filed against Iovate and or Paul Gardiner FDA warning InjuryBoard Help Center - Ephedra recall InjuryBoard- Des Moines, Diet Safety, January 2009 FTC Charges Ephedra marketers with deception, July 2003 Metabolife Knew of Ephedra Complaints, October 2002 Ephedra Product Liability Litigation IMAGE SOURCE: Health product review ad for Hydroxycut They are marketed as products for weight loss, enhanced energy, and fat-burning...
Suffering In Silence From A Medical Device - Surgical Mesh (Part 4)
Posted on May 04, 2009Lana Keeton Lana Keeton - Not Suffering in Silence LEARN MORE Suffering in Silence- Part 1 Suffering in Silence- Part 2 Suffering in Silence Part 3 Ethicon Web site - Women's Health and Urology Medical Mesh Yahoo - discussion site (requires registering) Lana Keeton Blog Medtronic, Inc...
FDA Orders Black Box Warning For Botox Products
Posted on May 01, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release InjuryBoard on Botox InjuryBoard Botox News IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Autism brain / author: Eubulides The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is ordering Botox and similar anti-wrinkle drugs carry stringent warning labels, prompted by reports of serious adverse events...
WHO - 5 Out Of 6 Influenza Alert
Posted on May 01, 2009WHO Reports Latest LEARN MORE CDC Travel Warning CNN- Q and A on Swine Flu CDC - Latest on swine flu Health & Human Services - Pandemicflu.gov World Health Organization IMAGE SOURCE: Valencia, Spain health workers/ New York Times Influenza experts are on alert and standby in case they are needed to advise the World Health Organization, Reuters reports...
High Court Opening When Souter Retires In June
Posted on May 01, 2009Justice David H. Souter LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Major Setback for Consumers Hurt By Faulty Medical Devices, February 2008 InjuryBoard News - Diana Levine Case Concludes Before Supreme Court in ruling For Consumers, March 2009 Alliance for Justice IMAGE SOURCE: Justice David H...
Swine Flu In U.S. Now At 109
Posted on April 30, 2009As Many As 14 States LEARN MORE CDC Travel Warning CNN- Q and A on Swine Flu IMAGE SOURCE: Mail Online/ Cruise liner at sea The number of confirmed swine flu cases is the U.S. has risen to 109, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Pain Relievers To Carry Bolder Warnings
Posted on April 30, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release FDA Final Ruling InjuryBoard on OTC Drugs IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / Pain Relievers On Tuesday, the U...
Tuberculosis Scare Lawyer Sues CDC
Posted on April 30, 2009TB Scare Lawyer Sues CDC LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center- Tuberculosis InjuryBoard News - Extensive Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Becoming More Prevalent, June 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: ABC News Web site / Andrew Speaker and then-wife His name sparked an international public health scare and a search for the man who had boarded a plane with a rare form of tuberculosis (TB)...
Polo Horses Die From Selenium Overdose
Posted on April 29, 2009Polo Horses Died From Selenium Overdose LEARN MORE NIH on Selenium InjuryBoard Help Center - Prescription and Medication errors InjuryBoard News, Twins To Be Buried on Baby Shower Day, July, 2008 InjuryBoard News - Quaids Sue over Medication Error, November 2007 InjuryBoard- Rite Aid Corp to Pay $850 K in Prescription Lawsuit, July 2002 IMAGE SOURCE: Associated Press Web site The 21 polo horses who collapsed and died suddenly before a polo match in Wellington, Florida on April 19, were overdoses with the metal selenium...
Patient Zero Identified, Pig Farm Suspected In Swine Flu Outbreak
Posted on April 29, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - Latest on swine flu Health & Human Services - Pandemicflu.gov World Health Organization IMAGE SOURCE: Fox News Web site/ Patient Zero, Edgar Hernandez A two-year-old toddler from Mexico has died in a Houston, Texas hospital...
Study Finds Common Gene Variants In Autistic Children
Posted on April 29, 2009LEARN MORE Nature, April 2009 InjuryBoard on Autism InjuryBoard on Hanna Poling case Autism Society of America NINDS on Autism Facts Autism Research Institute InjuryBoard Autism News CDC Autism Information Center IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Autism brain / author: Eubulides Scientists have long known that people with autism have brains that work differently – their brain activity doesn't follow usual pathways for thought, speech or social interaction – but they haven't known why...
Washington - Swine Flu Front Burner
Posted on April 28, 2009Swine Flu Front Burner in Washington LEARN MORE TeamSarah Website CDC - Latest on swine flu Health & Human Services - Pandemicflu.gov World Health Organization IMAGE SOURCE: TeamSarah Website U.S. officials are closing schools in California and Texas following reports that more than 40 people in five states have been sickened by this new strain of the swine flu...
Swine Flu News Buzzing On Twitter - Is It A Good Thing?
Posted on April 28, 2009LEARN MORE Nielsen Online - Swine Flu News and Concern Dominates Online Buzz IMAGE SOURCE: Twitter Twitter is the latest greatest thing in social media...
Health Officials Warn - Use Antiviral Drugs Cautiously
Posted on April 28, 2009LEARN MORE CDC - Latest on Swine Flu Health & Human Services - Pandemicflu.gov World Health Organization CDC - General Information about Swine Flu IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Symptoms of Swine Flu Health Officials Warn to use Antiviral Medications Cautiously To date, the there has been 40 reported cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) confirmed in U...
Suffering in Silence From A Medical Device - Surgical Mesh (Part 3)
Posted on April 28, 2009LEARN MORE Suffering in Silence- Part 1 Suffering in Silence- Part 2 Suzanne McClain American Urogynecological Society meeting, 2006 FDA - Center for Devices and Radiological Health FDA - MAUDE database FDA - Adverse Event Reporting System InjuryBoard News - Congress Moves to End Medical Device Immunity, March 2009 More on Lana Keeton - Founder, Truth In Medicine IMAGE SOURCE: Ethicon Web site Background: About 13 million American women experience stress urinary incontinence (SUI), a leaking of urine during moments of physical stress that can include coughing or laughter...
Do ADHD Drugs Improve School Scores?
Posted on April 27, 2009Higher Test Scores with ADHD Drugs? LEARN MORE Pediatrics - Positive Association ADHD Drugs and Test Scores - Abstract , May 2009 Generation Rx - Amazon Kevin Miller InjuryBoard News - Harvard Psychiatrists Under Fire, June, 2008 Boston Globe profile on Dr...
Alfalfa Sprouts Warning - Salmonella
Posted on April 27, 2009Don't Eat Alfalfa Sprouts LEARN MORE LATEST UPDATE- Noon EST_ - U.S. cases now up to 40 mild cases of the virus. The WHO wants to call it influenza not swine flu because people will stop eating pork. More updates as warranted. FDA on Salmonella Saintpaul Peppers, August 2008 FDA on Raw Alfalfa Sprouts, April 2009 FDA Talk Paper on Sprouts, 2002 InjuryBoard News -Salmonella Sprout Recall in Six States, March 2008 Injuryboard on Salmonella Injuryboard on Food Poisoning InjuryBoard Help Center - Sprouts IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons, alfalfa sprouts For the time being, federal health regulators warn you to stop eating raw alfalfa sprouts until further notice...
U.S. Urges Calm Over Swine Flu
Posted on April 27, 2009Swine Flu - Don't Panic U.S. Urges LEARN MORE CDC - Latest on swine flu Health & Human Services - Pandemicflu.gov World Health Organization IMAGE SOURCE: Valencia, Spain health workers/ New York Times Americans are being urged not to panic...
Congressman Calls For Inquiry Into AIG's Handling of Contractor Claims
Posted on April 24, 2009LEARN MORE ProPublica InjuryBoard AIG News IB - Insurance Industry Exposed - Tricks Of The Trade IMAGE SOURCE: Congressman Elijah E...
FAA Makes Public Bird Strike Incidents
Posted on April 24, 2009Canada goose LEARN MORE FAA data on bird-strikes InjuryBoard News-USAirways Flight Crashes, January, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Canada goose/ author: Alan Wilson 89,000 since 1990 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that bird strikes by airplanes have more than doubled at 13 major U...
Big Tobacco's Friends In Florida Legislature
Posted on April 24, 2009Big Tobacco's Big Friends LEARN MORE Injuryboard- Help Center - Cigarettes & Tobacco InjuryBoard News - First of 8,000 Florida Tobacco Lawsuits Begins, December, 2008 Engle Trust Fund Injuryboard on the Engle Case Injuryboard on Florida Tobacco Lawsuits Florida Supreme Court on Engle case IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Marlboro cigarettes/ author: Bachmont Big Tobacco has some close friends among the Florida legislature, meeting in Tallahassee...
Unusual Swine Flu Hits Seven People
Posted on April 24, 2009Unusual Swine Flu Hits Seven People in U.S. LEARN MORE WHO on Swine Flu outbreak of 1976 World Health Organization InjuryBoard News - Flu Shot Puts Parents in Dilemma, February 2008 CDC -General Information about Swine Flu IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ pigs in a pen/ author: Titanium 22 Seven people in two states in the Southwest have been hit with an unusual strain of swine flu, even though they had no contact with pigs...
Florida Pharmacy Error Involved In 21 Polo Horse Deaths
Posted on April 23, 2009Pharmacy Error In 21 Polo Horse Deaths LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - Prescription and Medication errors InjuryBoard News, Twins To Be Buried on Baby Shower Day, July, 2008 InjuryBoard News - Quaids Sue over Medication Error, November 2007 InjuryBoard- Rite Aid Corp to Pay $850 K in Prescription Lawsuit, July 2002 IMAGE SOURCE: Associated Press Web site 21 polo horses who received a supplement and died shortly after this weekend, were given an incorrect dosage, says the pharmacy...
On Statins? Avoid These Juices
Posted on April 23, 2009Grapefruit and Pomegranate LEARN MORE NEJM on C-reactive protein, November 2008 InjuryBoard Help Center- Cholesterol drugs overview InjuryBoard, Cheyenne, Vytorin, Zetia used as last resort, August 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Cholesterol/ National Institutes of Health ABC News medical contributor, Dr...
Shaken Baby Used To Market Apple App
Posted on April 23, 2009Testing the bounds of marketing LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - Traumatic Brain Injury Sarah Jane Brain Project Web site National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ newborn baby Apple has decided to kill its iPhone application called "Baby Shaker" after public outcry...
Medical Device Division of FDA Broke, Needs Fixing
Posted on April 22, 2009Artificial hip joints Device Arm Broken LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Suffering in Silence from a Medical Device - Surgical Mesh (Part 1) InjuryBoard News - Suffering In Silence Over A Medical Device - Surgical Mesh (Part 2) FDA - Center for Devices and Radiological Health See a 510(k) "substantially equivalent" letter InjuryBoard News - Riegel v Medtronic decision, February 2008 FDA Announces Medical Device review, April 2009 GAO report, January 2009 injuryBoard News - Suffering in Silence (Part 1) IB News - Suffering in Silence (Part 2) IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ hip joints The Food and Drug Administration's office that oversees medical devices is broken and needs fixing...
'Silent' Heart Attacks Often Unnoticed
Posted on April 22, 2009LEARN MORE PLoS Medicine Duke University News Release InjuryBoard Heart Attack News InjuryBoard on Heart Attacks IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ diagram of a heart attack / author: U...
Craigslist - Enabler to Sex Trade and Crime
Posted on April 22, 2009CEO Feels Bad About Craigslist Killer LEARN MORE Craigs Crime List - Crime Blotter Web site CNN interview with Jim Buckmaster FCC Communications Decency Act, 1996 IMAGE SOURCE: CNN Web site, interview with Jim Buckmaster Speaking on CNN this morning, Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster says he feels terribly that his online service was used to target victims...
Bad Doctors Going Undisciplined
Posted on April 22, 2009How Does Your State Rank? LEARN MORE Public Citizen- Ranks State Medical Boards, 2006-2008 Public Citizen on Five Percent of Doctors, September 2002 InjuryBoard- Help Center - Medical Malpractice InjuryBoard News - Hospitals Apologize to Lower Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, March 2009 InjuryBoard, Cleveland - Spangenberg Shibley & Liber, on Medical Malpractice IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ Doctor's visit/ author: Lilliday Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group, is looking at the numbers and finds that California and Florida are not living up to the task of disciplining doctors who are practicing substandard medicine...
Texas Court Rules Wyeth Must Face Prempro Lawsuit
Posted on April 22, 2009LEARN MORE IB Partner, Honolulu, Wyeth Must Face Prempro Case InjuryBoard on HRT InjuryBoard HRT News InjuryBoard on Breast Cancer InjuryBoard News coverage of federal pre-emption - See what everyone is talking about IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / Venus / author: Kyle A Texas appeals court has ruled Wyeth must face a personal injury lawsuit filed by a woman who claims Prempro, a hormone-replacement drug, caused her breast cancer...
Woman Paralyzed From Airplane Turbulence
Posted on April 21, 2009Woman Paralyzed From Airplane Turbulence LEARN MORE InjuryBoard, Seattle, Inflight Medical Emergencies, February, 2009 InjuryBoard News, Turbulence Danger, December, 2006 InjuryBoard News on Airlines IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ interior of Continental 737/ author: World Aviation Group You've seen the warning lights in the airplane bathrooms - "Return to your Seat"- during times of turbulence during a flight...
More Than Five Million Live With Paralysis, New Research Shows
Posted on April 21, 2009Christopher and Dana Reeve LEARN MORE One Degree of Separation report Morning news conference, April 21, 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center - Spinal Cord Injuries Alexandra Reeve Givens IMAGE SOURCE: Christopher and Dana Reeve/ ABC News Video Web site Givens Image/ ABC News Web site 40 Percent More Than Previously Thought Research initiated by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, announced during a news conference today, shows that spinal cord injuries are more common than previously thought and a sudden accident can throw someone into a lifetime of discrimination, pain, poverty, and adversity...
Pharmaceuticals Found In Water Supply
Posted on April 21, 2009LEARN MORE AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water IB Partner, Austin, TX, A Little Rocket Fuel In Your Drinking Water? No Problem IB Partner, Cincinnati, OH, How Safe Is Your Drinking Water? IB Partner, Des Moines, IA, Water Safety: Who's Responsible? IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / drinking water / author: Ranvieg U...
Urine Test Could Predict Lung Cancer Risk
Posted on April 20, 2009LEARN MORE AACR Press Release InjuryBoard on Lung Cancer InjuryBoard Lung Cancer News InjuryBoard on Cigarettes & Tobacco National Cancer Institute on Lung Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / urine sample / author: leezsnow Lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer in 2005...
Faux Handbags Carry Real Lead Hazard
Posted on April 20, 2009Handbags carry high lead levels LEARN MORE CEH Report - Pretty But Poisonous: Lead in Handbags and Wallets, April 2009 EPA on Lead IMAGE SOURCE: Center for Environmental Health. Web site They are fashion handbags found at Macy's Target, Kohl's, Ross, JCPenny and WalMart and they are in violation of California law...
Pathological Video Gaming Affects One In Ten Youth
Posted on April 20, 2009LEARN MORE Study - Pathological video game use among youth, April 2009 InjuryBoard News - Parkinson's Drug and Gambling Behavior Link, April, 2009 Association for Psychological Science journals IMAGE SOURCE; ©iStockphoto/ game playing/ author: joshblake Can you be addicted to video gaming? The short answer is yes...
Financial Misconduct - The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One
Posted on April 20, 2009LEARN MORE Bill Moyers Journal Web site Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Bill Moyers of PBS and William Black/ Brasscheck Web site The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One That's the title of a new book by William K...
Doctors Shutting Doors On Drug Sales Reps
Posted on April 17, 2009LEARN MOREZS Associates Web site Study "The Cost of Pushing Pills" January 2008InjuryBoard,News, Twice as Much Spent Marketing Over Researching Drugs, March 2008 IMAGE SOUCE: ©iStockphoto/ Doctor with arms crossed/ author: Twohumans Drug Sales Reps Increasingly Denied AccessNew figures are that access to doctors by sales reps are down 13 percent...
MRSA Hits House Staffer
Posted on April 17, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard, Mountain Home, Arkansas - MRSA Invades The House of Representatives Gym, April 15, 2009 InjuryBoard News - Avoiding MRSA Staph Infection- CDC Initiative, September 2008 NYT- Michael Polan on Our Decrepit Food Factories, December 2007 For more information: (800) CDC-INFO CDC on MRSA MRSA Education Initiative EPA products effective against MRSA JAMA study on MRSA here Story (2 parts) of Alicia Cole, victim of MRSA here IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockPhoto/ working out in gym/ author: jon11 More proof that MRSA - methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - is everywhere, even near the corridors of power...
EB Brands Recalls Fitness Balls Due To Fall Hazard
Posted on April 17, 2009LEARN MORE EB Brands News Release EB Brands Instructions for Use InjuryBoard on Product Recalls InjuryBoard Defective & Dangerous Products Help Center IB Partner, Tampa, Fitness Balls Burst Causing Injuries IMAGE SOURCE: © CPSC / Recalled Fitness Balls EB Brands, of Yonkers, N...
Child Abuse Up As Incomes Down, Poll Shows
Posted on April 16, 2009LEARN MORE National Coalition for Child Protection Reform Mason-Dixon Web site InjuryBoard- Help Center- Traumatic Brain Injury IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ Yazolino girl As the economy falters and many Americans are left on the brink of desperation, it is children who are often the victims of irrepressible adult anger...
A Genetic Predisposition To Stroke Discovered
Posted on April 16, 2009LEARN MORE Journal Stroke InjuryBoard Stroke Help Center About Herbs by Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Mayo Clinic on Gingko Biloba National Stroke Association NEJM - Genomic Association Studies of Stroke, April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Library Health Guide, Web site Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and is known to run in families, so unraveling the genetic contributions to the condition has the potential to help millions avoid stroke and stroke-related disabilities...
Airline Passenger Wide Bodies Pay More
Posted on April 16, 2009Airlines - Wide Bodies May Pay More LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Obesity News CDC on Obesity Missing Gene Linked to Appetite Control and Obesity Calculate your BMI to find if you are obese IMAGE SOURCE: The Age.com.au illustration from Web site United Airlines is not offering a friendly flying experience for anyone tipping the scales and having trouble fitting into a coach seat...
Anti-Seizure Drug Lowered IQ in The Unborn
Posted on April 15, 2009Anti-Seizure Drug Lowered IQ in The Unborn LEARN MORE New England Journal of Medicine -Cognitive Function at three years of age after fetal exposure to antiepileptic drugs, April 2009 The Epilepsy Foundation Valproate Sanofi-Aventis Depakote IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ little girl writing/ author: peeterv Researchers report that children of women who took a drug for epilepsy have lower IQs as toddlers than children of mothers who took an alternate drug...
Financial Misconduct: Securities Fraud and Corruption At The Top
Posted on April 15, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard, Des Moines, Financial Misconduct - What is a Ponzi Scheme?, April 2009 InjuryBoard, Des Moines, Financial Misconduct - What is a Liar's Loan? April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ image of Barrett Wissman His name is Barrett Wissman and he was a Dallas hedge fund executive...
Bone-Building Drug Speeds Pelvic Healing In Elderly
Posted on April 15, 2009LEARN MORE American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons University of Rochester Medical School Forteo Web site InjuryBoard News - Are You Getting Your Vitamin D for bone loss?, March 2009 InjuryBoard, West Palm -FDA on osteoporosis drug and atrial fibrillation, November 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ Osteoporatic hip It is a drug that appears to return the bone building process in the elderly to that of a young persons...
FDA - Coast IRB To Halt Drug Studies Due To Violations
Posted on April 15, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release FDA Warning Letter FDA 101: Clinical Trials and Institutional Review Boards Coast IRB News Release InjuryBoard on Clinical Trials IMAGE SOURCE: © Coast IRB Coast IRB, LLC is voluntarily halting some aspects of its clinical trial oversight operations due to serious concerns about the company's ability to protect human subjects that participate in clinical trials, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Minicars Save Gas But Maybe Not Lives In A Crash
Posted on April 14, 2009Head-On in a Minicar LEARN MORE Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Web site IIHS video of crashes IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times Web site/ minicar collisions Minicars are great on gas but if you get into an accident there likely will be a tradeoff on safety...
Bed Bug Summit To Address A Growing Problem
Posted on April 14, 2009LEARN MORE EPA on Bed Bug Summit and two-day agenda EPA Q & A on pesticides InjuryBoard Help Center - Bedbugs Harvard School of Public Health on biology and management of bed bugs Journal of the American Medical Association on bed bugs and the clinical consequences of their bite, April 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ bed bug nymph, Cimex lectularius A Growing Problem "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite," used to be said to little children at night to lull them to sleep...
TB Scare in Chicago Area Hospitals
Posted on April 14, 2009LEARN MORE American Lung Association IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ lungs/ author: Gray's Anatomy The discovery of a doctor at three Chicago-area hospitals who is positive for tuberculosis has public health experts scrambling. The resident had rotated through Children's Memorial, Northwestern Memorial and Evanston Hospital...
Scientists: FDA's Assertion of BPA Unreliable And Incomplete
Posted on April 14, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News on BPA FDA on Bisphenol-A Bisphenol-A Overview InjuryBoard on Phthalates Chemical in Plastics IB Partner – Sacramento, BPA, Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How! Environmental Working Group- Ways to Avoid BPA Exposure IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / chemical structure of bisphenol-A / Calvero The U...
Brown Fat Helps Burn Obesity Fat
Posted on April 13, 2009LEARN MORE NEJM - Cold-Activated Brown Adipose Tissue in HealthyMen, April, 2009 NEJM - Brown Adipose Tissue in Adult Humans, April 2009 NEJM - Functional Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adults, April 2009 IB News - How To Slow Obesity, Restaurants Say No, February 2008 InjuryBoard - Bangor, Maine - Can Lawyers Help Stop Childhood Obesity? October, 2008 BMI calculate Obesity or Overweight Highest Obesity rates states: Mississippi: 31...
Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Dies Of Heart Attack Mid-Flight
Posted on April 13, 2009LEARN MORE Federal Aviation Administration IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / King Air A quick thinking passenger was able to land a twin-engine plane at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers on Sunday, after the pilot passed out and died from a heart attack mid-flight...
Study Confirms Compulsive Behaviors With Parkinson's Drugs
Posted on April 13, 2009LEARN MORE Mayo Clinic Proceedings, April 2009 We Move- Worldwide Education and Awareness for Movement Disorders - Web site on PD National Parkinson Foundation Top questions about Parksinson's Archives of Neurology InjuryBoard on Sunshine and Vitamin D NIH on vitamin D Linus Pauling Institute on Vitamin D InjuryBoard on Mirapex IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ gambling chips/ author: Jamie Adams Parkinson's disease drugs are called dopamine agonists and a new study confirms what many report - that dopamine agonists can cause compulsive and hypersexual destructive behaviors...
Texas Plant Blamed In Salmonella Outbreak Fined Record $14 Million
Posted on April 10, 2009Salmonella Contaminated Peanut Plant Fined $14.6 Million LEARN MORE CDC on salmonella update FDA on salmonella cases FDA's online database InjuryBoard News, Criminal Charges May be filed against PCA, January 2009 FDA Form 483 - Inspection report on Blakely plant, January 2009 IB Partner filing cases - Atlanta, Childlers, Schlueter L...
Plastic Surgeon In Kanye West Mom's Case Surrenders Medical License
Posted on April 10, 2009LEARN MORE Injuryboard on Plastic surgery Injuryboard on Dr. Jan Adams Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons Injuryboard on anesthesia mortality Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States Medical Malpractice Complaint filed against Dr...
Kids Left In Cars - It Could Happen To You
Posted on April 09, 2009Fatal Distraction LEARN MORE Kids and Cars Web site Fatal Distraction article, Washington Post, March 8, 2009 Sisters of Invention - car safety products Web site IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ baby sleeping in carseat /author: stephco It is a heartbreaking story that took six months to investigate and deliver...
Study - One In Five Preschoolers Are Obese
Posted on April 08, 2009LEARN MORE Self-regulation and Rapid Weight Gain in Children From Age 3 to 12 Years Ability to Delay Gratification at Age 4 Years and Risk of Overweight at Age 11 Years InjuryBoard on Obesity News Obesity Gene Makes Children Eat More IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / fat adolescent / author: LisaValder One in five 4-year-old preschoolers are considered obese, according to a new study published in this month's issue of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine...
FDA - Unproven Medical Devices Must Show Safety
Posted on April 08, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Announces Medical Device review, April 2009 GAO report, January 2009 Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) InjuryBoard News - Suffering in Silence (Part 1) IB News - Suffering in Silence (Part 2) IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ hip joints Imagine a medical device, implanted permanently in your body, that's not been required to provide proof of safety? That's what has happened at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), which oversees medical devices under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Doc who Faked Studies Subpoenaed
Posted on April 07, 2009LEARN MORE Retraction Notice- Anesthesia & Analgesia journal - Lists Reuben studies that have been retracted InjuryBoard on celebrex InjuryBoard Help Center - Vioxx InjuryBoard on bextra InjuryBoard on Pfizer litigation FDA on celebrex Pfizer press release InjuryBoard News on Pfizer's 900 million settlement over Bextra, Celebrex, October 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Anesthesiology News Web site/ Dr...
Study Suggests Link Between Obesity and Restless Leg Syndrome
Posted on April 07, 2009LEARN MORE Neurology, March 2009 RLS Foundation NINDS on RLS InjuryBoard on Obesity IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / woman sleeping / Craetive A new study in the journal Neurology, suggests a link between being obese and restless leg syndrome (RLS), but more research is needed to confirm the association, experts say...
Chimp Attack Woman Recovering But Blind
Posted on April 07, 2009LEARN MORE Injuryboard on organ transplant rejection ABC News on French woman with partial face transplant IMAGE SOURCE: New York Post, image of CHARLA NASH IMAGE SOURCE: (inset) Alan Colmes Web site / image of Herold and Travis The woman who was attacked by a chimpanzee and nearly killed will likely be blind for life, say her doctors...
Suffering in Silence From A Medical Device - Surgical Mesh (Part 2)
Posted on April 07, 2009Part 2 - Suffering in Silence from a Medical Device - Surgical Mesh LEARN MORE Suzanne McClain American Urogynecological Society meeting, 2006 FDA - Center for Devices and Radiological Health See a 510(k) "substantially equivalent" letter FDA - Adverse Event Reporting System InjuryBoard Help Center - ProteGen Sling: Overview InjuryBoard- Help Center- ProteGen sling InjuryBoard, Tampa/St...
CDC - Perchlorate Found In Samples Of Baby Formula
Posted on April 05, 2009LEARN MORE Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, March 2009 EWG on Perchlorate in Baby Formula IB Partner – Lansing, Powdered Baby Formula Contaminated with Rocket Fuel FDA - Infant Formula Warnings Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Perchlorate – 3D / author: Benjah-bmm27 Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tested samples of powered infant formula and found traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel...
NY Pistacio Plant May Be Source Of Salmonella
Posted on April 03, 2009LEARN MORE FDA on peanut recall FDA Alert - on salmonella and pistachios FDA - database on contaminated foods FDA 1-888-SAFEFOOD InjuryBoard - Help Center - Peanut Butter Salmonella Contamination IB- Jonesboro, Paul Ford, Salmonella and Trial Lawyers, January 2009 IB News - Salmonella Victim Speaks Out, January 2009 Childlers, and Schlueter L...
Staten Island Man Wins Polio Case Against Drug Maker
Posted on April 03, 2009LEARN MORE Tenuto v. Lederle InjuryBoard on Polio IMAGE SOURCE: Dominick Tenuto and his daughters / New York Daily News After 30 long years, Tenuto v...
Should the FDA Oversee Big Tobacco?
Posted on April 03, 2009Should the FDA Oversee Big Tobacco? LEARN MORE H.R. 1256 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Tobacco additives- Blue Cross Blue Shield American Lung Association IB Help Center- Cigarette & Tobacco Lawsuit information IB Partner- West Palm Beach, Light Cigarettes, 2006 IB News- Menthol Added to Entice Teen Smokers, July 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockPhoto / smoking youth / author: Hammondovi That move got one step closer Thursday when the House of Representatives passed legislation 298-112 giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) powers to regulate tobacco...
Medical Devices: Judge Sits On Other Side Of Bench In Product Liability Case
Posted on April 02, 2009Retired Judge Michael Schattman National Voices : One Story of Defective Medical Devices LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News -Medtronic Reveals More Fatalities, April, 2009 Alliance for Justice - Web site AFJ- Faces of Preemption InjuryBoard News -Injured Support Overturn of Riegel, April 09 FDA - Recall of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads, October 2007 NEJM Editorial - on The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, March 18, 2009 Medtronic letter to physicians March 13, 2009 Introduction of Medical Device Act IB Help Center- Sprint Fidelis Leads Medtronic Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Michael Schattman, Courtesy, Michael Schattman For years, Texas District Judge Michael Schattman sat on the bench in Fort Worth listening to product liability and personal injury cases...
Medtronic Heart Device: More Fatalities Revealed
Posted on April 02, 2009Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillator Lead, Medtronic Web site LEARN MORE NEJM Editorial - on The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, March 18, 2009 Medtronic letter to physicians March 13, 2009 Introduction of Medical Device Act IB Help Center- Sprint Fidelis Leads IB News Partner, Tampa Bay- Joe Saunders, on Judge Richard Kyle dismissal, January 2009 Medtronic Web site Judge Richard Kyle IMAGE SOURCE: Medtronic Web site/ Medtronic Sprint Fidelis lead IMAGE SOURCE: Judge Richard Kyle / U...
Pfizer Pays $750 Million To Resolve Rezulin Cases
Posted on April 02, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Rezulin InjuryBoard on Diabetes IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / Troglitazone Pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer has paid $750 million to resolve about 35,000 claims over its withdrawn diabetes drug Rezulin...
Kraft Tests Nipped Contaminated Pistachios In The Bud
Posted on April 01, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Alert - on salmonella and pistachios FDA - database on contaminated foods FDA 1-888-SAFEFOOD Setton Farms Pistachios Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ USDA, pistachios/ author: Scott Bauer While the peanut-salmonella cases took months before federal regulators announced recalls, the pistachio-salmonella outbreak was nipped in the bud rather quickly...
Injured Protest 'Hit And Run' By Corporations
Posted on April 01, 2009LEARN MORE H.R. 1346 Alliance For Justice - Web site AFJ online petition to support MDA AFJ- Faces of Preemption FDA - Recall of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads, October 2007 IMAGE SOURCE: Avery DeGroh/ Katie Meyer/ from Alliance For Justice / Faces of Preemption In October 2007, the FDA announced that medical device maker, Medtronic, would recall four different models of Sprint Fidelis Cardiac Leads, the wires coming out of a heart defibrillator that cause the heart to shock when life-threatening irregular heartbeats are detected...
FDA Sends Warning Letters To Makers Of Unapproved Prescription Narcotics
Posted on April 01, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release Unapproved Drugs – Warning Letters Unapproved Drugs Marketed in the U.S. Search FDA-Approved Drugs InjuryBoard on Medication & Prescription Errors IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / pills / author: FotografiaBasica The U...
FDA Warns Of Salmonella Tainted Pistachios
Posted on March 31, 2009LEARN MORE FDA on peanut recall FDA Alert - on salmonella and pistachios FDA - database on contaminated foods FDA 1-888-SAFEFOOD InjuryBoard - Help Center - Peanut Butter Salmonella Contamination IB- Jonesboro, Paul Ford, Salmonella and Trial Lawyers, January 2009 IB News - Salmonella Victim Speaks Out, January 2009 Childlers, and Schlueter L...
Dangerous Weight Loss Products - FDA Alert
Posted on March 31, 2009Dangerous Weight Loss Products - FDA Alert LEARN MORE FDA Web site -Weight loss products Fax: 800- FDA-0178 Phone: 800- FDA-1088 IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ weight loss woman/ author: MarsBars This is the third nationwide alert from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning weight loss products...
Merck Victory In Canada Over Vioxx
Posted on March 31, 2009Merck Victory in Canada LEARN MORE Merck - Canadian press releases ( in French) InjuryBoard- Help Center- Vioxx IB News- Pursing Merck with a vengeance, January 2009 IB News- Merck Marketing Created Vioxx Study, August 2008 Vioxx Master Settlement Agreement Description of Settlement Agreement Examples of Vioxx Claim Valuations Vioxx Settlement Calcualtor IMAGE SOURCE: Merck & Co...
U.S. Senators Seek Ban on Chinese Drywall
Posted on March 31, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard on Chinese Drywall News IB Regional partner- Wayne Parsons, Honolulu IB Regional partner – Joe Saunders, St...
Suffering In Silence From A Medical Device - Surgical Mesh (Part 1)
Posted on March 30, 2009Suzanne McClain Suffering in Silence (Part 1) LEARN MORE Surgical mesh, Nylon 66 top left, IVS top right, Soarc bottom left, TVT bottom right/ Int. Urogynecol J. 2003,Web image Truth in Medicine- Web site Truth in Medicine - Blog Truth in Medicine - TV story WPLG Miami Ethicon Ethicon - on Stress urinary incontinence or SUI National Institutes of Health - on SUI IMAGE SOURCE: Suzanne McClain, Courtesy Suzanne McClain It's not an uncommon problem...
New Device Shows Promise In Replacing Blood Thinner
Posted on March 30, 2009LEARN MORE The Watchman PROTECT AF Study InjuryBoard Coumadin / Warfarin: Overview Signs and Symptoms of Atrial Fibrillation InjuryBoard on Stroke IMAGE SOURCE: The Watchman / Atritech Inc...
Most Adolescents, Teens Not Receiving Preventive Healthcare
Posted on March 30, 2009LEARN MORE Pediatrics - 11-year-olds Exposed to Tobacco Smoke, Abstract, February 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: iStock photo A new study finds that most American teenagers are not receiving adequate preventive health care, even though early intervention can set healthy patterns for life...
Florida Proposed Ban On Tanning Beds For Teens
Posted on March 30, 2009LEARN MORE Kayla Collier WHO on - Tanning beds for teens under 18 American Academy of Dermatology SB 546 InjuryBaord Help Center- Tanning beds IB News- Tanning Beds Link To Cancer- National Cancer Institute, February 2002 IMAGE SOURCE: iStochphoto/ girl in tanning bed/ author: technotr IMAGE SOURCE: AP Web site, Miss Florida Teen USA Kayla Collier was a beauty pageant contestant when she first started visiting tanning salons at the age of 15...
Retrieving Anchor Caused Capsize OF NFL Players' Boat
Posted on March 27, 2009LEARN MORE IB News - Capsizing Causes Hundreds of Injuries Annually, March 4, 2009 FWC - report of incident IMAGE SOURCE: Bay News 9 Web site, Corey Smith, top left, Marquis Cooper, top right, Will Bleakley, bottom left and Nick Schuyler, bottom right...
Fight Club Lawsuit Filed On Behalf Of Mentally Challenged
Posted on March 27, 2009LEARN MORE Rep. Lon Burnam bill - currently in the legislature Complaint filed by Hilliard Munoz Guerra LLP Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code- Tort Claims IB Partner - Reynaldo Pena, Corpus Christi, On state abuse of the handicapped, March 2009 Hilliard Munoz Guerra LLP IMAGE SOURCE: KIII-TV Web site/ coverage of Armando Hernandez Jr...
Inspector General Says Food Tracing System Inadequate
Posted on March 27, 2009LEARN MORE The Safe Handling of Produce InjuryBoard on Food Products InjuryBoard Food Safety News IMAGE SOURCE: FDA logo The government's system for tracing foods is full of potentially dangerous gaps that could undermine the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ability to quickly find the source of a food-borne illness or bioterrorism attack, according to a new federal report released yesterday...
Stayin' Alive On Spring Break
Posted on March 27, 2009NATIONAL VOICES Erin Weed LEARN MORE More about Erin Weed More about Girls Fight Back Spring Break Pledge page Spring Break Safety Tips Natalie Holloway Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Stayin alive Web site/ Spring break girls SafeSpringBreak...
Pet Spills Cause 86,000 Falls A Year
Posted on March 26, 2009LEARN MORE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report InjuryBoard- San Luis Ibispo, Pet distractions during driving, April, 2008 InjuryBoard- Help Center- Premises liability, Dog bites InjuryBoart Partner- Antelope Valley, CA, Dangerous Dogs IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ dog friend/ author: Kiidos While there are many benefits to owning a pet, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more than 86,000 falls a year are attributed to Fido and Fluffy...
Researchers Call For Higher Circumcision Rates To Slow STDs
Posted on March 26, 2009Ugandan Children, Courtesy, U.S. Agency for International Development LEARN MORE NEJM- Abstract on Male Circumcision, March 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics - Q & A on circumcision IB News - Teaching Girls about STDs, March 2008 IB News - Adverse Reports on Gardasil for HPV, July 2008 IB News - One in four teen girls has STD, March 2008 Injuryboard on Cervical Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Ugandan children/ author: U...
American Psychiatric Association Says No To Drug Industry Money
Posted on March 26, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA on Conflicts Over Conflicts InjuryBoard News - Dr. Charles Nemeroff stepping down as chair, December 2008 APA statement InjuryBoard on Harvard Psychiatrists InjuryBoard News on Conflict of Interest Sen. Grassley Web site IMAGE SOURCE: APA Web site announcing annual meeting in San Francisco, May 2009 High profile and embarrassing conflict of interest news stories about doctors on the receiving end of drug industry money, has led to a purported industry-wide policy change for a professional organization of psychiatrists...
NPR Corrects Mistakes Over Conflict Story
Posted on March 25, 2009Bill Lichtenstein LEARN MORE Slate.com on radio show controversy InjuryBoard News on Radio Show Host Conflict, November 2008 InjuryBoard News - Interview with Bill Lichtenstein, November 2008 Injuryboard news on conflict-of-interest Injuryboard on Harvard psychiatrists "The Infinite Mind", radio show IMAGE SOURCE: New York Times reporter, Gardiner Harris on Dr...
NFL Player's Bentley Kills Pedestrian
Posted on March 25, 2009It was March 14, about 7:15 a.m. Mario Reyes, 59, was rushing to his work as a construction crane operator. He crossed the six-lane MacArthur Causeway, near a crosswalk, when the pedestrian was hit and killed by a Bentley being driven by Cleveland Browns wide receiver, Donte Stallworth...
Alzheimer's Healthcare Costs Have More Than Tripled
Posted on March 25, 2009LEARN MORE Alzheimer's Association's 2009 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures Injuryboard on Alzheimer's & Dementia InjuryBoard News on Alzheimer's ActionAlz...
Study - Parents Warned Against Repeated Anesthesia Use In Young Children
Posted on March 25, 2009LEARN MORE Anesthesiology article, April 2009 Mayo Clinic American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD)- Nitrous oxide AAPD- Guideline for appropriate use of anesthesia, 2005 IB Partner, Richmond, Michael Phelan, on anesthesia injuries to young children IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ anesthesia in young patient Children who have anesthesia more than once before the age of four may have a higher risk of developing learning disabilities, according to new research out of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota...
Mortgage Fraud Up 26 Percent
Posted on March 24, 2009LEARN MORE Making Home Affordable Web site Fannie Mae 800-732-6643 Freddie Mac 800-373-3343 Texas AG Office Web site IB Partner, Los Angeles, Paul Kiesel on Beware of Loan Modification Scam, October 2008 Mortgage Asset Research Institute Kiesel, Boucher & Larson, LLP, Los Angeles IMAGE SOURCE: Texas Attorney General's office / Kandace Marriott Kandace Marriott Mortgage fraud is costing families money and the roofs over their head...
Brain Thickness May Show Depression Risk
Posted on March 24, 2009LEARN MORE Columbia University Press Release IB News -Top Ten Drugs for Depression, January, 2009 IB Partner- Richmond, Michael Phelan, Brain injury causes later life depression, May, 2007 IB News - Seroquel facing future scrutiny, lawsuits, March, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Columbia University Medical Center, 2009/ Left MRI of a person a high risk of depression, see loss in right lateral cortex In one of the largest imaging studies on whether depression runs in families - researchers find that a thinning in the right hemisphere of the brain appears to be linked to a risk of depression...
Study: Red Meat Raises Death Risk
Posted on March 24, 2009LEARN MORE Archives of Internal Medicine - Meat Intake and Mortality InjuryBoard on Heart Disease InjuryBoard on Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / steak / author: Sportstock People who eat higher amounts of red meat and processed meats have a greater risk of dying prematurely from heart disease, cancer and other causes compared to those who eat less, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine...
Are You Getting Your Vitamin D?
Posted on March 24, 2009LEARN MORE Archives of Internal Medicine - Demographic differences in vitamin D deficiency, March 2009 IB Partner- Philadelphia, Jamie Sheller - Error in vitamin D test at Quest Diagnostics, January 2009 InjuryBoard Help Center- Prolongevity vitamin D Overdose InjuryBoard News- Vitamin D Deficiency and cardiovascular risk, December, 2008 U...
Plan B Contraceptive Available Without Prescriptions
Posted on March 23, 2009LEARN MORE IB News, Should Contraceptives be allowed in school? October 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ teen and pills In a sharp reversal of the Bush administration's attitude toward contraceptives - the Food and Drug Administration has been ordered to reconsider its restriction on making the emergency contraceptive Plan B available to 17-year-olds...
Family Of Five Among Dead In Small Plane Crash
Posted on March 23, 2009LEARN MORE Pilatus Web site Injuryboard Help Center - small plane crashes IMAGE SOURCE: PC-12 NG, Pilatus Web site Unfortunately without a black box or cockpit voice reporter, investigators will have a difficult time knowing what caused a small plane to crash in Montana Sunday killing 14 people, half of them children...
Zyprexa-Prozac Med Approved For Depression
Posted on March 23, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard - Help Center - Zyprexa InjuryBoard News - Atypical Antipsychotic use in the Elderly, May, 2008 InjuryBoard News - What to do with a risky drug? Give it to children, December, 2007 InjuryBoard News - Prozac Approved for depression, 2003 InjuryBoard - Help Center - Prozac IMAGE SOURCE: iStockphoto/ depressed teen It promises to be another blockbuster for Eli Lilly and Co...
FDA Expands List Of Tainted Weight Loss Pills
Posted on March 22, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release Tis The Season For Weight Gain And Diet Pills - FDA Warning IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / diet pill / author: pixhook The FDA has expanded its nationwide alert not to purchase several weight loss products because they contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients...
Harvard Psychiatrist Promised Clinical Trial Results To Drugmakers
Posted on March 20, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News, Dr. Biederman suspends clinical trials, December 2008 Harvard on Conflicts of Interest What Doctors Think survey Boston Globe profile on Dr. Biederman IMAGE SOURCE: Harvard University Bio on Dr. Biederman No wonder he wants the court documents sealed away from the public eye...
Study: Many Firefighters And Rescue Workers Are Overweight
Posted on March 20, 2009LEARN MORE Journal Obesity NFPA - National Fire Protection Association InjuryBoard on Obesity Injury Board on Heart Disease IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / firefighter / author: seanjboggs A new study by a group of local medical schools and hospitals shows more than 75 percent of fire, EMT and police recruits in Massachusetts are overweight or obese...
FDA Alert Against Insulin Pen Sharing
Posted on March 20, 2009LEARN MORE FDA Alert - for Healthcare professions InjuryBoard, Charlottesville, VA - Greg Webb on reusing insulin pens, February, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ pre-filled insulin pen/ author: PerPlex The FDA is warning that patients should not share insulin cartridges and pens, even if the needles are switched out...
Economy Hits Drugmaker Profits
Posted on March 20, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Houston, On the increase in generic drug sales, October 2006 InjuryBoard Dallas, Buying prescription drugs online, May 2008 Injuryboard on pharmaceutical influenced conflicts-of-interest Injuryboard on medication & prescription errors IMS Health report IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ pouring pills/ author: VisualField The sale of prescription drugs isn't what it used to be...
Traumatic Brain Injury - More Common Than You Think
Posted on March 19, 2009LEARN MORE True Fit Web site Centre for Neuro Skills Safe Kids Worldwide Web site IMAGE SOURCE: True Fit Web site Following the death of Natasha Richardson from what initially appeared to be a minor head injury, some frightening statistics remind us that trauma to the head, if you survive, can be long lasting...
Richardson Death - Blunt Impact To The Head
Posted on March 19, 2009Quebec ER Docs Called For Helmet Law Three Weeks Ago LEARN MORE Brain Injury Research Foundation - On Winter sports BIRF- On ski helmetsCentre for Neuro Skills Safe Kids Worldwide Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Skiier with helmet/ Wikimedia commons/ author: Florian Lindner Following the shocking and quick death of British actress Natasha Richardson, Quebec is considering making helmets mandatory on the ski slopes...
Students Travel To Mexico Despite Travel Alert
Posted on March 19, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Vacation Safety News U.S. Department of State Travel Alert IB Partner, Steve Lombardi, Des Moines, Vacation Safety: Mayhem in Mexico Mexico Country Specific Info...
Prostate Cancer: What's A Man To Do Following Conflicting Reports?
Posted on March 19, 2009LEARN MORE Prostate cancer - U.S. National Cancer Institute Guidelines - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, on prostate screening NEJM studies, U.S. study NEJM study, U.K. study NEJM Discussion - Benefits outweigh risks IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ prostate/ Author: National Cancer Institute Two studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine have men in a quandary when it comes to prostate cancer screening...
Michiganders Fight Drugmaker Immunity Law
Posted on March 18, 2009Dianne and Joe Hargrove Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Continued from Part 3) LEARN MORE National Association of Manufacturers Prednisone IMAGE SOURCE: Joe and Dianne Hargrove, Courtesy: the family "Republicans have to be a little nervous about this...
Obesity Shortens Life Span
Posted on March 18, 2009LEARN MORE The Lancet 3/18/09 Calculate your BMI CDC on Obesity InjuryBoard on Obesity InjuryBoard Obesity News IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / waist circumference / author: Pharos, FDA Dietary Guidelines A new study in the March issue of the medical journal The Lancet suggests, being obese can take years off your life and in some cases it may be as dangerous as smoking...
Mistrials - Blame It On The Web
Posted on March 18, 2009LEARN MORE Model Civil Jury Instructions, Michigan Electronic Freedom Foundation, defends rights in digital world IB Partner, G. Cusimano, Gadsden, Current Trends in Jury Awards IB Partner, R. Blanchard, Pensacola Jury bias affects outcome IMAGE SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons/ To Kill A Mockingbird, film 1962, Gregory Peck / author: Moni3 A judge admonishes jurors during a trial - "Don't watch any television news reports and don't read any newspaper accounts...
Do Helmets Help Prevent Traumatic Head Injury On the Slopes?
Posted on March 18, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard Help Center - Head and Brain Injuries InjuryBoard- Help Center - Ski Resort Liability Huffington Post story on brain trauma National Ski Area Association Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly, Natasha Richardson from Web site When she bumped her head on a bunny slope, no one immediately knew what happened to actress Natasha Richardson...
AIG Locks Doors Following Death Threats
Posted on March 17, 2009LEARN MORE IB Partner, Mobile on AIG accountability, March 16, 2009 IB News- AIG and structured settlements, September, 2008 Injuryboard on structured settlements AIG American International Group AIG statement to policyholders IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ AIG banner Security guards are outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG, American International Group, following death threats and angry letters from the public outraged over bonus payments to executives as part of a federal bailout...
$50 Million Lawsuit Filed In Chimp Attack
Posted on March 17, 2009LEARN MORE Injuryboard on organ transplant rejection ABC News on French woman with partial face transplant IB News - on facial reconstruction at Cleveland Clinic, December, 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: (top) Charla Nash Trust Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Alan Colmes Web site / image of Herold and Travis Charla Nash A 55-year old Connecticut woman remains hospitalized with her faced ripped off after a chimpanzee attack last February...
New Aspirin Therapy Guidelines For Heart Health
Posted on March 17, 2009LEARN MORE Annals of Internal Medicine 3/17/09 New AHRQ Recommendations AHRQ Press Release InjuryBoard on Heart Disease IMAGE SOURCE: © Wikimedia Commons / aspirin / author: Chaval Brasil A low dose of aspirin daily appears to be as effective as higher doses and safer at preventing heart attack and stroke, says U...
Is Michigan Ready To Challenge Drugmaker Immunity Again? - (Part 3)
Posted on March 16, 2009LEARN MORE The Wiltjer Family Michigan Sen. Wayne Kuipers, (R-Holland), from his Web site Michigan Citizen Action Web site HB 4316 HB 4317 HB 4318 MichBio Web site Progress Michigan Church, Wyble PC, law firm, Lansing, Michigan IMAGE SOURCE: (top) Sen...
Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Part 2)
Posted on March 16, 2009LEARN MORE Leslie Richter, YouTube video Michigan Association for Justice Web site Drug Industry Immunity Must End (DIIME) Web site IMAGE SOURCE: Gov. John Engler, National Association of Manufacturers Web site Church, Wyble PC, law firm, Lansing, Michigan Charfoos & Christensen law firm, Detroit, Michigan Settlement Agreements Merck, Plaintiffs, November 2007 Michigan Com...
Study Offers Promise For Peanut Allergies
Posted on March 15, 2009LEARN MORE Kids Health: Nut and Peanut Allergy School Safety - Peanut treats and Anaphylaxis Shock Food Allergies Among Children Surge Over Last Decade IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / peanuts / author: billberryphotography Researchers from Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital are one step closer to conquering deadly peanut allergies...
Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Part 1)
Posted on March 13, 2009LEARN MORE Diana Levine, March 4, 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: NPR image of Diana Levine IB News - U.S. Supreme Court decision on Levine, March 4, 2009 Michigan Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, fromYouTube video Michigan Association for Justice Dr. Henry Greenspan, Univ...
Carcinogens Found In Several Children's Bath Products
Posted on March 13, 2009LEARN MORE No More Toxic Tub (pdf) Toxic Tub: Product Test Results SAFE HOME 101 - Consumer Guide to Safe Shampoos IMAGE SOURCE: iStockPhoto / little girl in the tub / author: Texxter The products you use to wash your children may contain harmful chemicals known to cause cancer and skin allergies...
Google Co-Founder Underwrites Parkinson's Trial
Posted on March 12, 2009LEARN MORE 23andMe Web site National Parkinson Foundation Top questions about Parksinson's IMAGE SOURCE: Times online. / Sergy Brin and Anne Wojcicki The co-founder of Google wants to know if he has a mutation that can lead to Parksinson's disease and is spending millions to underwrite a genetic study to be conducted with data collected online...
Ozone Levels Aggravate Lung Disease
Posted on March 12, 2009LEARN MORE IB News - Air Particles Taking 10 Years off Californians Lives, May 2008 NEJM - Abstract EPA- What is Ozone? EPA National Air Quality standards, 1997 IB- Help Center on Air pollution IB News - Pittsburgh Outpaces Los Angeles Air, May,2008 IMAGE SOURCE : WikiMedia Commons/ Pasadena Highway, Los Angeles, 2007/ author: Aliazimi An 18-year study shows that even low-doses of ozone pollution are a killer in heavily polluted cities, such as Los Angeles and Riverside, California...
Low Levels Of Vitamin D Linked To Teen Health Problems
Posted on March 12, 2009LEARN MORE American Heart Association News Release NIH on Vitamin D U.S.D.A. on Vitamin D Foods InjuryBoard on Sunshine and Vitamin D Vitamin D Deficiency And Cardiovascular Risk IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / art symbol for sun / author: Fred_DL Several studies have shown that adults who get too little vitamin D, also known as the "sunshine" vitamin, are at an increased risk for heart disease and diabetes...
Harvard Heavyweights To Head FDA
Posted on March 12, 2009LEARN MORE InjuryBoard News - Dr. Sharfstein calls for OTC drug regulations, October 2008 Nuclear Threat Initiative IMAGE SOURCE: Time Magazine, profile of Hamburg While Dr. Joshua Sharfstein was the suspected front runner to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the drug lobby reportedly opposed the choice...
Runway Safety Needed At Busiest Airports
Posted on March 11, 2009LEARN MORE Transportation Department's office of inspector general report Federal Aviation Administration IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Delta 757 taking off Reagan Washington Airport/ author: Carl Lindburg A new report says that 11 major airports still do not meet federal safety requirements that give planes extra room to stop before ramming into passing cars...
Depression And Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death In Women
Posted on March 11, 2009LEARN MORE JACC, March 2009 InjuryBoard on Antidepressants IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / depression / author: timeflight A new study suggests relatively healthy women with severe depression are at increased risk of cardiac death...
Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009
Posted on March 10, 2009LEARN MORE H.R. 1237 Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2009 Health and Human Services report How to choose a nursing home - Medicare Injuryboard Help center - Nursing homes Injuryboard news on nursing homes IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ elderly woman in wheelchair/ author: Mike Papas Minnesota resident Dean Cole, 72, was suffering from dementia when his family decided he would receive the best care possible in a nursing home...
Warmer Weather Raises Migraine Risk
Posted on March 10, 2009LEARN MORE Neurology, March 2009 InjuryBoard on Headaches and Causes American Headache Society MAGNUM: The National Migraine Association IMAGE SOURCE: © iStockPhoto / headache sufferer / author: Kaisphoto A new study by Harvard researchers, appearing in the March issue of Neurology, shows that people are more likely to visit emergency rooms with migraines in warmer weather...
Recall: Fire Hazard Potential in 1.6 Million Refrigerators
Posted on March 10, 2009LEARN MORE CPSC Recall notice Maytag toll-free at (866) 533-9817 anytime Maytag Web site IMAGE SOURCE: CPSC Maytag Corporation of Newton, Iowa is voluntarily recalling about 1.6 million refrigerators that could present a fire hazard...
Merck's Acquisition of Schering-Plough
Posted on March 09, 2009LEARN MORE Merck statement on the merger IMAGE SOURCE: Portland Tribune Web site/ image of Richard Clark CEO, Merck After shying away from acquisition, Merck has announced plans to acquire New Jersey drugmaker Schering -Plough for $41.1 billion...
Hospitals Apologize To Lower Medical Malpractice Costs
Posted on March 09, 2009LEARN MORE Injuryboard Chicago, on how hospitals reduce medical malpractice cases IMAGE SOURCE: Sorry Works Coalition Web site Donald Platt just wanted an apology. His doctor had failed to diagnose a tumor growing on his kidney. By the time it was properly diagnosed, the tumor had grown to the size of a baseball...
March Is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Posted on March 09, 2009LEARN MORE CDC on Colon Cancer InjuryBoard Colon Cancer Help Center American Cancer Society: Colon Cancer IMAGE SOURCE: Colorectal Cancer Awareness Ribbon March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and the American Cancer Society is promoting safe screening practices...
Going For An MRI? Take Off Your Drug Patch First
Posted on March 09, 2009LEARN MORE FDA News Release InjuryBoard on Fentanyl Patch FDA: Proper Use of Fentanyl Pain Patches IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons / MRI / author: LeaW...
Winston Man Dies Of Cancer, Lawsuit Pending
Posted on March 09, 2009LEARN MORE Winstonman Web site Engle Trust Fund- Florida tobacco lawsuits Injuryboard - Help Center- Cigarettes and Tobacco Injuryboard News- Jacksonville- Hess case follows in Engle footsteps, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times At one time he embodied the rugged individualist man who could defy the odds...
Congress Moves To End Medical Device Immunity
Posted on March 06, 2009LEARN MORE Suzanne McClain Alliance for Justice Waxman on Medical Device Safety Act GAO report on Medical Devices, January 2009 SCOTUS Wiki on Riegel Riegel v. Medtronics Advanced Medical Technology Association IMAGE SOURCE: Suzanne McClain, Courtesy, Suzanne McClain IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons, Supreme Court, author: Ken Hammonds Are Medical Devices Next? The Supreme Court decision this week for Diana Levine, concludes that consumers do have a right to sue if they are injured by an FDA approved drug or by the makers' failure-to-warn label...
Six Makers Will Withdraw BPA From Baby Bottles
Posted on March 06, 2009LEARN MORE JAMA - Full Text of report on adult exposure to BPA National Toxicology Program on BPA Injuryboard- Safe Home101 on Avoiding BPA Injuryboard news on BPA Theo Colburn, Our Stolen Future, early research on chemical endocrine disruptors Alternet story on BPA American Chemistry Council Injuryboard on toxic substances Environmental Working Group- Ways to Avoid BPA Exposure IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ baby having a bottle/ author: Michael Jastremski Because of the questionable safety and availability of alternatives, six manufacturers will stop selling baby bottles with the plastic additive bisphenol A or BPA...
Medical Money At The Top
Posted on February 23, 2009LEARN MORE Chronicle of Higher Education IB News - Sen. Grassley oversees Emory University psychiatrist, October 2008 IB Partner - Cherry Hill, N.J. - Cleveland Clinic will make salaries known, December 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ $20 dollar bills/ author: merzperson An effort to reform our bulging medical costs might take a look at the salaries of some in medicine and in medical academia...
Suspension Bridge Strength Tested
Posted on February 23, 2009LEARN MORE IB partner- Des Moines - Finding information about bridge safety, November 2008 IB News- Conclusion of Minneapolis bridge collapse report, November 2008 Bridge Hu