Blog Posts in 2010
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/15) reports, "The US Food and Drug Administration says that Tessalon (benzonatate) liquid cough capsules should be kept in child-proof containers because they look like candy and could pose ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
The Chicago Tribune (12/11, Zajac) reported, "Prodded by consumer and dental activists, the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the scientific evidence underlying its pronouncement less than 18 ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
In her Vital Signs column in the New York Times (12/14, D6), Roni Caryn Rabin writes, "Consumers Union is urging pregnant women to avoid eating tuna altogether and advising small children to limit ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
The New York Times (12/14, B3, Meier) reports, "Older patients with arthritis who take narcotic-based drugs to relieve pain face a higher risk of bone fracture, heart attack and death when compared to ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
Reuters (12/14, Joelving) reports that according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the painkiller Vioxx (rofecoxib) may have caused blood clots, and possibly even deaths, ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
The Gilmer (TX) Mirror (12/12) reported, "Most of today's toys are actually made in China or other foreign country, regardless of what label is on the box or what country the manufacturer calls home. ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2010 By Sean Brown
NY Times reports, "The number of Americans hospitalized for dog bites almost doubled over a 15-year-period, increasing to 9,500 in 2008 from 5,100 in 1993, a new government study reports." The report ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2010 By Sean Brown
Bloomberg News (12/8) reports that more than half of holiday lights tested in a U.S. study had more lead than regulators permit in children’s products, with some strands containing more than 30 times ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2010 By Sean Brown
The drug Thelin treats pulmonary hypertension, an incurable condition where there is increased pressure in the arteries of the lungs, causing shortness of breath, according to the National Institutes ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Sean Brown
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (12/9, Hahn) reported the parents of an asthmatic girl filed a wrongful death suit against haunted house operator Halloween Productions, Inc. According to the suit filed by ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Sean Brown
ABC World News (12/9, story 4, 0:30, Sawyer) reported, "Johnson & Johnson is pulling 13 million packages of Rolaids off the store shelves, several different kinds of Rolaids soft chews." The CBS ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Sean Brown
Nevada's Public News Service (12/9) reported according to a report by the American Association for Justice, "95 percent of the toys sold in the US now come from abroad, and some of them would not ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Sean Brown
More snow and ice on the roads often means more accidents. Here are some Alaska DMV requirements and links to forms that may be useful if you are involved in an accident. For Crashes over $501.00 If ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/8) reported an Indianapolis whistleblower suit accused Rolls-Royce Corp. of hiding "repeated defects at an aircraft engine plant in Indianapolis and fired a safety official for reporting ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Sean Brown
The New York Times "Prescriptions" blog (12/9) reports, "In a closely watched case, a federal jury on Wednesday awarded a Minnesota resident a total of $1.82 million in damages, finding that Johnson ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/7) reported a Chicago couple filed suit against Easton-Bell Sports Inc., maker of aluminum baseball bats, "for injuries their 11-year-old son suffered when he was struck in the head by a ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Sean Brown
The Wall Street Journal (12/8, Helliker) reports in a first-of-its-kind suit, US Smokeless tobacco agreed to a five million dollar settlement in a wrongful death suit from the family of a life-long ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2010 By Sean Brown
Reuters (12/6, Heavy) reports that some mothers experience difficulty when trying to breastfeed their newborns, and thus find themselves turning to other lactating mothers for help. But concerns have ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2010 By Sean Brown
Reuters (12/7, Joelving) reports that serious side effects from cancer drugs can appear years after regulatory approval. Canadian researchers looked at 12 drugs approved by the US Food and Drug ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 By Sean Brown
HealthDay (12/3, Reinberg) reported, "Pregnant women with epilepsy who are taking carbamazepine (Tegretol) to control seizures may be at a slightly increased risk of having an infant with spina ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/3) reports, "The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to" Align Technology, Inc., "a company that makes a popular teeth straightener" -- the Invisalign system -- "about its ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2010 By Sean Brown
Bloomberg News (12/1, Plungis) reported that Lowe's has joined a December 2009 CPSC recall "that covered more than 50 million Roman and roll-up blinds, because of strangulation hazards, the agency ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2010 By Sean Brown
Bloomberg News (11/29, Olmos) reports the study found "almost one in five hospital patients was injured by their care," and researchers "found little improvement from industry and government efforts ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (11/22) reported that the US Consumer Product Safety Commission "said it was collecting samples of all glasses cited in an ongoing Associated Press investigation into dangerous metals in ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Sean Brown
The New York Times /Bloomberg News (11/23) reports, "Johnson & Johnson, the maker of healthcare products, has recalled about four million packages of cherry- and grape-flavored Children's Benadryl ...
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