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• Motorcycle Industry Pledges $2.8 Million

  Greg Owen | July 07, 2007 5:49 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  In response to the motorcycles pladge to fund $2.8 million in crash research, Ed Moreland of the American Medical Association's VP of Government Relations stated on their websire " This commitment by the motorcycle industry is a vital ingredient in getting the first comprehensive study of the causes of motorcycle crashes in more than 25 years."Motorcycle riding has long been a favorite pastime...

• Pet Food Recall - Judge Tells Menu Food "Back Off."

  Greg Owen | June 12, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman has ordered Menu Foods and/or their agents to have no further contact with consumers of the pet food recall products without the involvement of the consumers' attorneys. Judge Hillman called the endless telephone calls to consumers " abusive and harassing." As if pet owners had not already been put through enough with this pet food recall nightmare. Most...

• Avandia-FDA Seeks Black Box Warning

  Greg Owen | June 07, 2007 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Lawmakers are hearing testimony from GlaxoSmithKline, doctors and regulators. The drugs Avandia, Avandaryl and Avandament, all GSK diabetes drugs, will be discussed at length. The discussion will be centered around whether enough was done by the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to warn the public of the dangers involved with taking these medications, which are considered to be defective drugs by many....

• Rat Poisoin Found in Tainted Pet Food

  Greg Owen | March 23, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  It was announced today that rat poison was found in the recalled pet food that unsuspecting pet owners have been feeding their faithful friends. Although, it is still unknown to scientists and state officials just how the rat poison got there. According to Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker " the toxin was identified as Aminopterin, which is used to kill rats in some countries."...

• More than One Fatal Helicopter Crash in Hawaii

  Greg Owen | March 12, 2007 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Many people have either taken a helicopter tour in Hawaii or have it on their list of things to do "someday." If that describes you and/or your loved ones, you may want to do a little research before embarking on that tour. There have been a couple of fatal helicopter crashes on the Hawaiian helicopter tours in the last few days. On Sunday, a helicopter crashed on Kauai, killing at least one...

• Peregrina Cheese Corporation Recalls All Products Manufactured In Its Plant

  Greg Owen | August 13, 2009 10:10 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Peregrina Cheese Corporation of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling all products manufactured in its Brooklyn, NY plant from March 17, 2009 to the present because they have the potential to be...

• Got Fish?

  Greg Owen | August 22, 2008 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Man says the 9-foot tapeworm he passed came from an undercooked salmon salad!!! Anthony Franz just wanted a healthy lunch when he ordered the salmon salad at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago....

• Fears Over Defective Weighing Scale

  Greg Owen | February 19, 2008 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  It is bad enough that a four-year-old child has cancer, but can you imagine the hospital using a defective weighing scales to determine her radiation dosage!!! That is what happened recently in a hospital in the United Kingdom. Recent check on the scales and other equipment in U.K. hospitals revealed that there are not only inaccuracys in the hospitals' scales, but found equipment was missing. ...

• FDA Anounces Class 1 Recall of Infusion Pump

  Greg Owen | February 11, 2008 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  The most serious type of FDA recall is known as a "Class I recall." This type of recall is only issued if a given defective medical device will cause serious injury or death. According to the FDA recall notice, Medtronic notified its customers of the SynchroMed El Implantable Infusion Pump via a letter dated August 3, 2007.The Implantable Infusion Pump administers drugs to a specific site in the...

• Ritter Family Presses Wrongful-death Suit

  Greg Owen | February 01, 2008 3:14 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  You may recall that 54 year-old actor/comedian John Ritter of Three's Company fame died most unexpectedly in September 2003 on, of all days, his 5-year-old daughter's birthday. At the time of his death, Ritter was married to actress Amy Yasbeck. Yesback and Ritter's four children have now filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in Los Angeles. Two doctors are named in that suit. According to court...