A 2-year-old girl was the third area child to drown recently, following the drowning deaths of two boys, ages 11 and 8, in separate incidents earlier this summer. All three children drowned while swimming with family or friends.
USA Today (5/18, Szabo) reports, “Since 1992, rates of melanoma — once considered an old person’s disease — have risen 3% a year in white women ages 15 to 39, according to the American Cancer Society.” Alarmingly, many young women who are developing melanoma have spent time tanning indoors at salons. According to a study …
On its website, ABC News (9/22, Carollo) reported, “A former Food and Drug Administration official who helped get the vision correction surgery LASIK approved back in the 1990s but later spoke out against the procedure is taking his concerns directly to current regulators at the FDA.” Yesterday, “Morris Waxler, who is now an independent …
An article in the Washington Post (Fri., Aug. 27) says that Toyota will recall 1.13 million Corolla and Matrix cars for a flaw that U.S. regulators said may cause stalling “at any speed without warning.” The recall affects vehicles from the 2005-2008 model years in the United States and Canada and follows at least three …
If you’ve ever been hurt at work, then you know how bad it can be. Lost work, lost wages and doctor bills – it all adds up fast. You need good medical care. You need your bills paid. What you do after you get hurt is as important as how you got hurt in the …
Take a look at this newscast on road threats to bikers posed by drivers using cell phones.
The USA Today reported today the there are fewer motorcycle enthusiasts dying on America’s roads and none of the experts can say why. A report by the Governors Highway Safety Association includes data about motorcycle accidents and for the first time in twelve years, the numbers are dropping. While the experts are left perplexed, most …
The Associated Press reports that Bricks have been hurled through Democrats’ windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman’s brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received obscenity-laced phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation.
McClatchy (2/11, Holland) reported, “An Alaska mental health advocacy group that has spent years battling the pharmaceutical industry over medication is suing more than a dozen Alaska child psychiatrists, saying the doctors unnecessarily drugged children and committed Medicaid fraud.” The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights “filed as a whistleblower on behalf of the United …
In a blog at the Huffington Post (2/11), Joanne Doroshow wrote that survivors of medical malpractice “sent a letter [pdf] to President Obama today, as well as to the Congressional leadership.” They wrote, “We urge you to please keep additional ‘tort reforms’ out of the health insurance reform bill, beyond what the House and Senate …
