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• Who's Really Looking Out for the Consumer?

  Greg Owen | December 24, 2007 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  With all the recalled products out there today, it can be quite a fete to determine what products are safe for your children this holiday season. The concerns are not only about toys. Of late, concerns have been raised about everything from food items to cribs.Take the extremely understaffed Consumer Protect Safety Commission, in the Maryland office there is literally one person testing toys as...

• Merck Recalls Childrens' Vaccines

  Greg Owen | December 21, 2007 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Merck & Co Inc have recalled approximately 1.2 million doses of its popular childrens' vaccines. It is feared that the production equipment was not adequately sterilized. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the recalled vaccine is used to protect against the leading cause of meningitis in children under 5 years old. The potential for contamination of any individual...

• Dog Bites on the Rise in Minnesota

  Greg Owen | December 18, 2007 6:20 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  According to epidemiologists with the Minnesota Department of Health's Injury and Violence Prevention Unit, stray dogs do not account for the majority of dog bites. In Minnesota, dog bites are on the rise. However, a periodical published in "Minnesota Medicine" stated that when scientists studied the dog bites that were treated in hospitals, the rate of dog bites had increased by a staggering...

• Firefighter Claims Wrongful Termination

  Greg Owen | December 14, 2007 6:10 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  In October 2006 15-year-old, James Citizen, was abducted and shot to death. Marvin Nicholson Jr., a Chattanooga firefighter at the time of the incident, was subsequently fired from his job as a firefighter following his arrest for the death of Citizen. Nicholson has now filed a wrongful termination claim against the city and is asking for $250,000 in damages. He claims that the city did not...

• Clinic Drops Patient & Family Due to Lawsuit

  Greg Owen | December 09, 2007 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  According to the law of the land, a physician has the right to determine who he/she will treat and can terminate a physician/patient relationship at any time without cause. That is, as long as proper steps are taken for continuity of care. What happened in this particular case is unusual to say the least. In 2005, Wichita police officer Karie Zimmer filed suit against a Wichita clinic for...

• China Shuts down 300 Drug, Medical Instrument Manufacturers

  Greg Owen | December 06, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Apparently, China has a campaign of sorts to crackdown on malpractice in the pharmacy industry. Three hundred drug and medical instrument manufacturers have been shut down due to sub-standard products. Wu Zhen, Deputy Director of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), said that the crack down is yielding results and noted that by October, 900 illegal drug producers and 400 cases were...

• British Woman Dies after Attack by Stray Dogs

  Greg Owen | December 02, 2007 3:13 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Bulgaria is not alone in its problem of stray dogs running the streets. It really is a sad situation in the formally communist country. The problem got worse on Tuesday when Ann Gordon, 56, a British born woman, was attacked by eight particularly vicious dogs when she was out walking her own dog, a German Shepard.It was confirmed that she bled to death after suffering multiple bites from the...

• How Close is Too Close

  Greg Owen | November 30, 2007 2:55 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  It has long been believed by many that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is much too close to drug companies, which clearly causes a conflict in terms of regulating those companies. To see the extent of the problem, we only need to take a look at Merck's Vioxx catastrophe, were it was revealed by one scientist that he had actually received vailed threats from the FDA regarding the release...

• Doctor's Medical Malpractice Puts Hundreds at Risk

  Greg Owen | November 21, 2007 7:38 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  You've heard it said that "truth is stranger than fiction." It would be safe to say that this medical malpractice situation is one of those incidences . Long Island physician, Dr. Harvey Finklestein, may have exposed hundreds to Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV according to the Nassau County Health Department. When Finkelstein's was investigated, what was observed is alarming. " The...

• Police officers indicted for insurance fraud

  Greg Owen | November 19, 2007 7:30 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Two veterans of Camden Police Deptartment were indicted on charges of official misconduct, conspiracy and insurance fraud. Miller, 44, of Sicklerville, a 21-year veteran and Jefferson, 42, also of Sicklerville, a 17-year veteran. It is believed that the two officers defrauded three insurance companies out of $150,000. The two officers ran a business transporting patients in vans that were...