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Nov-2-08 Washington, DC According to the US arm of Amnesty International (AIUSA) the number of people who have been Tasered to death since 2001 has grown to 320. So many deaths by Tasers, and all this amidst a growing medical concern and a growing outcry from the general public that such weapons exceed a law enforcement official's normal capacity to subdue a thre... - Interview with Dr. Todd Curtis, Air Safety Expert
Oct-31-08 Dr. Todd Curtis has been involved in aviation in one form or another for 30 years. He took his first flight in a glider at the age of 18 and got his private license before becoming a flight test engineer. He also worked at Boeing as an airline safety engineer. While working at Boeing, Curtis came up with the idea for AirSafe.com, a website that would give us... - Digital Threats: Emerging Predatory Behaviors in the Workplace
Oct-31-08 Increasingly, digital threats are emerging as a new variant of workplace violence: Malicious, digitally-based threats have appeared as a new weapon for the disgruntled employee to perpetrate malice or unwanted pursuit. Human Resources/Risk Managers have become increasingly familiar with violence in the workplace and are aware of the warning signs that p... - FDA Issues a Class I Recall of Vibrational Integrated Bio-photonic Energizer
No Evidence to Support Claims that it Cures Serious, Chronic Illnesses The FDA has issued a class I recall of the Vibe Technologies Vibrational Integrated Bio-photonic Energizer Machine Multi-Frequency Field Generator. This device has not been approved by FDA, lacks safety and effectiveness data, and is not manufactured under current good manufacturing... - Homelite Recalls Chain Saws
Chain Brake Can Fail About 370,000 Homelite Homelite Chain Saws are being recalled because the chain brake can fail to stop the chain on its first application, posing a risk of laceration to consumers. This recall involves Homelite brand chain saws with the following model numbers: UT10514, UT10516, UT10517, UT10518, UT10520, UT10540, UT10560 and U... - New Study Shows Bisphenol A Linked to Diabetes and Heart Disease
FDA to Hold a Public Hearing An association exists between levels of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and diabetes and heart disease including angina, coronary artery disease, heart attack, and elevated liver enzymes, according to a new study to be published in the prestigious Journal of American Medical Association on September 17. The results of the st... - New Study Shows Enormous Risk for Atrial Fibrillation with Fosamax and Zometa
68 Percent Increased Risk Leading to Hospitalization or Death Results from a pooled analysis of 3 randomized controlled studies on bisphosphonate medications, specifically alendronate (Fosamax) or zoledronic acid (Reclast, Zometa), have revealed a staggering 68 percent increase in the risk for atrial fibrillation leading to death or hospitalization, com... - Health Canada Issues Safety Warning about Risk of Fatal Overdose with Effexor
Reports of Overdose with Doses as Low as 1 Gram Health Canada, and the manufacturers of venlafaxine extended-release (XR) capsules isssued a public advisory today regarding venlafaxine XR. The labeling is being updated to include safety information about the risks of overdose. Venlafaxine is in a class of medicines called serotonin and norepinephr... - Stock Losses Aren't Always Caused by the Stock Market
Oct-27-08 Wooster, OH If there is one segment of the population most hurt by the global economic crisis and stock market losses , it is seniors who may have been duped through imprudent stock market financial advice, and now have incurred stock losses at a time when they are ill-equipped to replace those funds. Tomorrow, of course may tell a different story. Bu... - The Whistleblower and the Voting Machine
Oct-27-08 Washington, DC With one of the most important Presidential elections in US history mere days away, concern is resurfacing over the integrity of voting machines and the potential for tampering, according to two whistleblowers . Indeed, there has been a lot of whistleblowing going on with regard to one of the most closely guarded freedoms inherent with demo... - Pilot Error Causes Plane Crashes
Oct-25-08 Madrid, Spain When you board an airplane, you expect the pilot is fully capable of dealing with any situation that might arise and will always make the right decision to avert a plane crash. Of course, pilots are humans and humans make mistakes. Sadly, when pilots make mistakes the result can be a fatal airplane crash. A recent analysis, conducted a... - Preemption - True Motives
Oct-21-08 In the original petition for writ of certiorari filed in the US Supreme Court in March 2007, under reasons for granting the petition, Wyeth reveals the true motives behind the pharmaceutical industry's all-out push for a preemption win against a lone citizen from Vermont, Diane Levine, when stating: "There are tens of thousands of individual claims, and p... - Ortho Evra—Out of Court, Out of Mind
Oct-21-08 Columbus, OH Despite the fact that Johnson & Johnson recently paid the seemingly staggering sum of $68.7 million to settle lawsuits brought by young women who nearly died using their Ortho Evra birth control patch, this dangerous contraceptive device remains on the market and is still causing damage. Case in point: a young woman in the southern US wh... - Fosamax Causes Fractures
Oct-20-08 Vancouver, WA Long-term use of the controversial osteoporosis medication Fosamax is ringing more alarm bells with bone experts. Why? Something called spontaneous non-spinal fractures. As if osteonecrosis of the jaw and a risk of stroke weren't enough, a series of case reports published in medical literature shows a clear association between Fosamax and t... - Heparin Injection From Recalled Product Still on the Shelf
Oct-20-08 Los Angeles, CA It's bad enough that a contaminated product like Heparin can find its way across our borders and into our medical supply. Heparin contamination has proven both a health liability and a source of fear for anyone requiring heparin injection by way of heparin syringes. However, when a recalled product is still found on hospital shelves almos... - Jury Still Out on Safety of Drug Eluting Stents
Oct-20-08 Washington, DC When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 'Endeavor,' the drug-coated Medtronic stent earlier this year, it did so amidst a storm of controversy as to whether or not the stents promote potentially dire blood clots in heart attack patients. Drug eluting stents are still under FDA scrutiny, but as 2008 dawned there was little c... - A Tale of Two Contracts
Oct-14-08 Hollywood, CA Like any grade-school promise, commercial contracts are just that—a legal pledge, or a guarantee that a promised service will be carried out. A commercial contact is a covenant, and when it is breached commercial contract law comes into play. Sometimes those breaches can make for salacious headlines, especially when well-known celebrit... - Is Unum Provident Profiting from People with Disabilities?
Oct-14-08 St. Pete Beach, FL UnumProvident (also known as Unum ) stopped Cindy's long term disability benefits because she collected from her Unum policy at the same time she received social security benefits. Unum is now suing Cindy for $55,000 but Cindy says she didn't receive anywhere near that amount from her social security benefits. Is Unum trying to profi... - Ortho Evra Settlements at $68 Million, and Climbing
Oct-12-08 New Brunswick, NJ The accounting offices at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have been kept busy processing Ortho Evra patch claims by women who have suffered blood clots, heart attacks or strokes after using the Ortho Evra birth control product. Some women have died. So far, the bill to settle Ortho Evra birth control patch claims is at $68 million and climb... - Free Drug Samples the New Threat to Children
Oct-6-08 Washington, DC Patients love 'em because they're free, and will save them a buck or two at the drug store. Doctors love 'em because their patients love 'em—plus the added benefit of ensuring a patient without the means to afford expensive prescription drugs can have access to them. However a new study out today suggests that free drug samples do litt...