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• Robins Air Force Base Launches New Motorcycle Safety Campaign

  Greg Owen | August 22, 2008 11:35 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Officials at Robins Air Force Base have implemented a motorcycle safety program on the base. and, not a moment too soon. There are as many as 1,300 motorcycles registered on base. And, there have...

• Product Safety Whistleblower Protections

  Greg Owen | August 06, 2008 3:07 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  On July 17, the House and Senate conference committee came to an agreement on nine major items relative to product safety and legislation to protect private employees of manufacturers who report...

• Dietary Supplement Recalled

  Greg Owen | July 03, 2008 8:04 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  On July 1, 2008, Jack Distribution, LLC. Of Pompano Beach, Florida has announced a recall of certain lots of a product they market as a dietary supplement. The lots being recalled are Rize 2 The...

• Teenager From Faith-Healing Family Dies Unnecessarily

  Greg Owen | June 19, 2008 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Ava Worthington, the 15-month-old child of Carl and Raylene Worthington didn't stand a chance. Her parents belong to a faith healing church group known as Followers of Christ, which has a...

• Early Warning From FDA - Potentially Defective Drug

  Greg Owen | June 13, 2008 9:58 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hasrevealed that there is a safety review is ongoing with respect to Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Blockers. There have been more than 30 reports made to the...

• Ex-House aide Claims Wrongful Termination

  Greg Owen | February 29, 2008 5:42 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Stephen A.H.Keefer, a former House Democratic Caucus staffer, has filed a wrongful termination suit against his former employers. The case was filed in Commonwealth Court.Keefer was director of information technology. In his suit he claims that the only reason he was fired from that position was to divert attention of an investigation pertaining to House operations away from certain...

• Woman Dies in Airport Holding Cell

  Greg Owen | October 03, 2007 12:10 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  On Friday, a 45 year old woman, Carol Anne Gotbaum, was attempting to travel through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in route to an alcohol rehabilitation center. She was late for her flight, and when it was made clear to her that she would not be allowed to board, according to witnesses, she began yelling and running throughout the terminal. As a result of her disturbing behavior, she...

• Avandia Sales Drop

  Greg Owen | July 01, 2007 3:20 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Sales of Avandia, the drug developed to aid diabetes patients, have dropped by approximately 10% since The New England Journal of Medicine posted an Avandia study on May 21, 2007 that was less than favorable. The study showed a huge increase in heart attacks and cardiovascular disease in people taking the drug, which is a product of GlaxoSmithKline.By the drug manufacturer's estimates, the...

• Girl Loses Feet in an Amusement Park Ride

  Greg Owen | June 27, 2007 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  In one of the most horrific accidents imaginable, a 13-year-old girl's feet were cut off at the ankle while on an amusement park ride last Thursday in Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Amusement Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The ride in question lifts passengers 177 feet in the air, before dropping them back down at a high rate of speed only to stop 20 feet from the ground below. One witness said she...

• Salmonella: What is it?

  Greg Owen | February 22, 2007 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Salmonellosis appears to be on the rise in the United States, particularly in the last ten years. With recent recalls on products that are feared to be contaminated with Salmonella, many people may be wondering what the exact nature of Salmonella is. According to the dictionary, "salmonella is any of several rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, as S. typhosa,...