- Chrissie Cole | December 28, 2007 1:21 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsGap Outlet, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced a voluntary recall of its "Warmest Jacket" boys' jackets. The jackets have a waist drawstring which can become caught or snagged in small spaces such as doorways or on cabinet doors and posing an entrapment hazard to small children."Gap Outlet" is printed on a label at the neck. Style number 513573 is...
- Shannon Weidemann | December 26, 2007 10:50 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesA plan the would have allowed greater access to health care for those suffering from World Trade Center Illness was stopped by the CDC. The proposed program would have reimbursed doctors for treating patients that live outside of the New York City area. Many rescuers traveled from across the country and are now feeling the effects of the toxic fumes and materials that filled the air following...
- Shannon Weidemann | December 23, 2007 10:36 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesA man working as a glazier on an Atlantic City hotel under construction was injured in a fall. He was installing windows on the Borgata Hotel & Casino. Rescue workers credit his safety harness for saving the construction workers life. The construction accident happened on Thursday. Instead of falling to the ground, the man wound up wedged in a roughly 2-foot-wide space between the tower wall...
- Chrissie Cole | December 22, 2007 1:42 AM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseSerious conditions and citations at U.S. nursing homes rose by 22 percent from 2000 to 2006, according to analysis by USA Today."It's not that the quality of care has gone down but we are being more rigorous in our enforcement," Jeffrey Hammond of the New York health department told USA Today. The U.S. Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, who regulates nursing home, shows citations for...
- Shannon Weidemann | December 21, 2007 12:01 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe anti-bleeding drug Trasylol was recalled in early November after a study revealed the risk of death was 50 percent higher than on other drugs. The BART study examined results on over 3,000 patients that had been given Trasylol and two similar drugs. The Commission on Human Medicine decided this week to suspend Trasylol's license. The CHM decision to suspend the licence was made on the...
- Shannon Weidemann | December 19, 2007 9:54 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsPre-filled syringes manufactured by Sierra Pre-Filled have been recalled after being contaminated with Serratia marcescens. The recalled syringes had sicked approximately 40 people in two states. It is not known if the contaminated item was the syringe or the Heparin contained in them. Syringes from that batch also were sent to Colorado, Florida and Pennsylvania but infections so far have...
- Chrissie Cole | December 16, 2007 10:49 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAutoZone, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced a voluntary recall of approximately 140,000 Valucraft Booster Cables. The booster cable clamps were assembled wrong resulting in reverse polarity which can pose an electrical shock and explosion hazard to users.The company has received four incident reports of reverse polarity that resulted in minor property...
- Chrissie Cole | December 13, 2007 1:23 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeA Massachusetts woman, given HIV treatments for nearly nine years before discovering she was misdiagnosed, was awarded $2.5 million in damages.The medical malpractice lawsuit claimed the doctor treating her at the University Of Massachusetts Medical Center, repeatedly failed to order proper tests to confirm the diagnosis, even though regular blood tests did not show the presence of HIV.The...
- Shannon Weidemann | December 12, 2007 5:21 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesA group of lawmakers from New York and New Jersey is pushing Congress to pass a $109 Million spending bill for those affected with World Trade Center Illness. The money was added onto a $500 Billion spending bill and Senator Hillary Clinton is hoping that it passes. As a senator, Clinton has pushed for years for the government to provide a long-term health care program for those sickened from...
- Jenny Albano | December 09, 2007 2:53 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesA construction worker was killed Friday, December 7, at a construction site in the Bronx. The man was pinned between two pieces of heavy equipment and then was dropped into an eight foot deep hole. Authorities have not released the man's name so they could inform the family first, but the company, Underground Water and Sewer of the Bronx, identified the worker as Bekim Hysenlekaj.Hysenlekaj...
- Chrissie Cole | December 06, 2007 11:19 PM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseNew York is increasing its focus on antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes, training inspectors to spot signs of medication abuse.Medicaid spends more money on antipsychotic drugs than any other medication - including - antibiotics and high blood pressure medication. The reason - nursing homes across the United States are giving antipsychotic drugs to quiet patients who suffer symptoms of...
- Chrissie Cole | December 01, 2007 12:28 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsDick's Sporting Goods, in cooperation with CPSC, announced a voluntary recall of 125,000 lounge chairs and recliners because the plastic support brackets on the chairs and loungers can break and pose a collapse hazard.The company has received 19 consumer complaints of the chairs and recliners collapsing. 17 of the reported injuries involved back pains and lacerations.The following products are...