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Archive for April, 2010

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Toyota Recalling 600,000 Sienna Minivans

Ouch! Toyota is recalling 600,000 Sienna minivans over rusting spare tire holders. The recall Friday came as House investigators said they would hold another hearing in May to review possible electronic problems in runaway Toyotas. The Japanese automaker has recalled more than 8 million vehicles because of faulty accelerator pedals, humbling a car company long known for its quality and safety.

Separately, Toyota said its engineers in Japan had duplicated the same results of tests that led Consumer Reports to issue a rare “don’t buy” warning on the 2010 Lexus GX 460 over rollover concerns. Toyota responded by halting sales of new GX 460s and conducting tests on all of its SUVs. Read the rest of the story in the Philadelphia Inquirer

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Insurance Companies Gering Up to Recoup from Toyota

If you own a Toyota that is on the recall list and were in an accident, you may be able to recoup some of your deductible.  Insurance companies are going after Toyota for the money they paid for claims in crashes involving sudden acceleration, the subject of major safety recalls by the Japanese automaker. It could also mean money back for some drivers who paid deductibles.

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Apr

Dennis Quaid becomes advocate for hospital safety following medical error

USA Today (4/13, Rubin) reports that according to actor Dennis Quaid, “When a crash happens, it’s so public. … No one is going to fly on their airplanes unless they have that trust.” Yet, “when a mistake occurs in a hospital, the public might never hear about it. Although an estimated 100,000 Americans die each year because of medical errors, their deaths are scattered over thousands of hospitals, ‘where people die anyway,’ Quaid said. ‘It doesn’t get the same type of attention.’” USA Today says that since “Quaid’s 10-day-old twins were twice given an adult dose of the blood thinner heparin,” he “has become the self-described ‘frontman’ for a campaign to improve patient care with the implementation of ‘safe practices’ as simple as hand-washing and the use of technologies such as bar codes to match medications to patients.”

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Program assesses when disciplined physicians can resume practicing medicine

The Wall Street Journal (4/13, R5, Landro) reports on the Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program (PACE) at the University of California-San Diego, which is designed to assess when doctors who have been disciplined can resume practicing medicine. PACE faculty and staff evaluate physicians’ abilities and offer remedial courses, as well as a brief mini-residency. The program has also been used by other state medical boards.

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