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Disabled Women Raped and Abused by Van Driver

Posted on April 15, 2008
In this disturbing story out of Virginia, two disabled women in wheelchairs separately testified that they had been molested and raped numerous times by the driver who transported one to adult daycare and the other to work. Alton Kenney Davis, 56, has 12 sex-related charges against him...

New WellPoint System to Identify Drug Problems

Posted on April 15, 2008
With the number of drug recalls, adverse reactions and other issues involving over-the-counter and prescription medications, WellPoint Inc is developing a system to more quickly uncover health risks of drugs. The health insurer is working with U.S. health regulators and other institutions on it's Safety Sentinel System, which will utilize a 35-million-member database to monitor and identify safety problems of approved medications...

Saturday Fort Worth Accident Kills One, Injures Four

Posted on April 14, 2008
Detectives are still investigating an accident that killed one and sent four to the hospital late April 6 on NW Loop 820 in Fort Worth. Roger Flores, whose Chevy Trailblazer was struck by Rogelio Castillo's Ford F150 pickup causing it to lose control and roll, was pronounced dead this Saturday...

Cement Mixer Accident Kills One, Injures More

Posted on April 11, 2008
Around 3 p.m. today, a cement mixer travelling on southbound Highway 183 crashed through the median, flipped into the northbound traffic, struck a motorcycle and landed on top of a red SUV. The red sport utility vehicle's 41-year-old-driver was killed and a 6-year-old passenger remains in critical condition in the hospital...

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Cement Mixer Accident Kills One, Injures More

Reckless Motorcyclist Falls from Exit Ramp

Posted on April 11, 2008
On the tails of our last post regarding a motorcyclist who crashed into a vehicle at 100-plus mph, the Dallas Morning News reported another motorcycle accident around 8 this morning. This time, the motorcycle driver was reported as weaving in and out of traffic and riding recklessly as he took the Highway 75 exit ramp onto the George Bush Turnpike...

Motorcyclist in Hit-and-Run Accident in Critical Condition

Posted on April 11, 2008
Police in Arlington have yet to find the driver who crashed into a motorcycle on Highway 287 on Monday. Though the vehicle driver does not appear to be at fault in the accident that left the motorcyclist in critical condition, he or she fled the scene of the early morning accident...

Update: Liberty Bell Accident

Posted on April 01, 2008
In an update from yesterday's post about the Sunday night accident involving the caretaker of a Liberty Bell and Ten Commandments replicas, the driver of the historical display was apparently in good condition at a Fort Worth hospital Monday morning. David Hall was loading the display onto a flatbed trailer at Victory Assembly of God Church when a Chevrolet Tahoe, driven by 29-year-old Gerardo Burgos, rammed into the trailer...

Motorcycle Accident Kills 63-Year-Old Man

Posted on April 01, 2008
Taking a motorcycle ride with his son just after midnight this morning, a 63-year-old man died when he fell from his motorcycle. He apparently struck an object along Interstate 30 in Fort Worth. His son, who was following behind him, was not injured in the crash...

Truck Toting Liberty Bell Replica Hit

Posted on March 31, 2008
A man who regularly transports a replication of the Liberty Bell and the Ten Commandments stone tablets to the funerals of area veterans was injured Sunday night in a Dallas suburb when his truck was struck by a sport utility vehicle (SUV). He had apparently stopped on the westbound shoulder of a Highway 121 access road to strap the objects to the trailer when a suburbun hit the truck...

Update: Denton State School

Posted on March 28, 2008
Check out today's Dallas Morning News article on the investigation of the Denton State School and the impact of the investigation on the care of those with physical and mental disabilities statewide. Read Yesterday's Post on the topic.

North Texas Toy-Maker Recalls Rock 'N Ride Rocker

Posted on March 28, 2008
A Southlake toy-maker just announced the recall of about 122,000 units of Rock 'N Ride plush rockers because the product could potentially injure young children. The company has received 35 reports of the rocker tipping over, with 10 such incidents resulting in injuries like bumps, bruised and lacerations...

Denton State School Under Abuse Investigation

Posted on March 27, 2008
Reports of alleged abuse and neglect at the Denton State School, a facility that houses about 600 people withmental and physical disabilities, have prompted a review by the Federal Department of Aging and Diability Services. In 2002 the school made headlines when a young man was bludgeoned into a coma by an employee of the school who had apparently repeatedly been under the influence of narcotics at work...

Painkiller Theft Causes Hepatitis at Military Hospital

Posted on March 26, 2008
Ex-nurse and retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is believed to have spread Hepatitis C to 15 military service members or their relatives at El Paso's William Beaumont Army Medical Center by diverting painkiller from the patients to himself. Though details are unclear, an outbreak of Hepatitis C was reported at the hospital in 2004, and Jones tested positive for the blood-borne disease...

Teen Dies After Routine Breast Procedure

Posted on March 26, 2008
About 24 hours after a routine corrective breast surgery on Friday, an 18-year-old Florida teen passed away. Two hours into her surgery, Stephanie Kuleba was rushed to the Delray medical Center to correct asymmetrical breasts and inverted areola, according to the Associated Press news brief...

Second Crane Accident in 10 Days Kills 2

Posted on March 25, 2008
Less than two weeks after the 20-story crane collapse that killed seven in New York City, a collapse in Miami has killed two workers and injured four others. Used at a construction site for a 40-story high-rise conominium, officials were unsure how the crane fell...

Male Infant Death More Likely

Posted on March 25, 2008
Boys have about a 20 percent higher chance of dying by the age of one than girls, according to research released Monday. Though the gap has lessened in the past decades because of medical practices like increased Caesarean sections and intensive care units for premature babies, there is still a disparity between the genders...

Colorado vs. New Zealand - Medical Malpractice Liability

Posted on March 24, 2008
An interesting column by Senator Bob Hagedorn in the Rocky Mountain News looks at what he considers limitations and shortcomings of the medical malpractice systems in the state, as well as the nation, and compares those systems to one in place in New Zealand...

Transplant Doctor Accused of Speeding Death to Get Organs

Posted on March 21, 2008
In the first case of its kind in the United States, a San Francisco transplant surgeon will go to trial on one count of felony dependent adult abuse for hastening the death of a comatose patient in order to harvest his organs sooner. Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was sent by his employer as part of the California Transplant Donor Network to perform the transplants after the mother of 26-year-old Ruben Navarro authorized the harvesting of his organs using a DCD, or "Donation After Cardiac Death" transplant procedure...

Hit-and-Run Accident Knocks 13-Year-Old Cyclist Unconscious

Posted on March 20, 2008
A young teen driver fled the scene after striking a 13-year-old boy who was riding his bike in Rowlett Wednesday. According to a witness, the driver stopped a few blocks away and was later arrested on a charge of failure to stop and render aid. The boy was knocked unconscious by the blow...

Pros and Cons of Sturdier Cars

Posted on March 19, 2008
While reinforced alloys, impact-absorbing crumple zones and dozens of air bags in today's passenger vehicles certainly help save lives, the newer designs are also hindering rescue efforts. Hydraulic cutters commonly used by rescue crews to remove injured persons from a vehicle are less effective and sometimes worthless on the stronger car frames, making such efforts take much longer than before and delaying the potential treatment of critical injuries...

Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Based on Genes

Posted on March 18, 2008
Whether a victim of abuse, witness to a heinous crime, or involved in some other form of trauma, your risk for post-traumatic stress disorder may depend on your genetic makeup, new research said today. A study by researchers at Emory University found that of adults who had endured abuse as a child, those with a specific gene variant were more likely to have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder...

Dennis Quaid: Medical Mistakes Far Too Common

Posted on March 17, 2008
While Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly are lucky that their twins are still with them today after a hospital-administered overdose of an adult blood thinner had them fighting for life in November, not all victims of medical mistakes are so lucky. In fact, according to a 2000 Food and Drug Administration article, 44,000-98,000 Americans die each year not from the medical conditions they checked in with, but from preventable medical errors...

Dallas Plagued by Drunken Driving Accidents

Posted on March 17, 2008
A 4-year-old girl. An 18-year-old man. A 60-year-old man. Someone's baby girl. Someone's brother. Someone's dad... All victims of fatal accidents involving suspected drunken drivers in the Dallas area. The 4-year-old Haltom City girl, Kaitlyn Sanchez, died about 10 p...

John Ritter's Doctors Cleared in Malpractice Case

Posted on March 14, 2008
After his death from a torn aorta in 2003, the widow and children of actor John Ritter filed a lawsuit against his cardiologist and radiologist for medical negligence. Radiologist Matthew Lotysch was cleared today of the claims that he had failed to spot an enlargement of the aorta in a body scan done in 2001 - two years prior to Ritter's death...

Ride Malfunction Prompts Six Flags Suit

Posted on March 14, 2008
When the Six Flags ride the Texas Tornado malfunctioned in March 2006, nine people were injured from bumping into each other as the operator utilized the emergency safety switch to lower the ride. Trista Price, who suffered minor back injuries, filed a lawsuit this week claiming that Six Flags Over Texas was negligent in its operation and maintenance of the popular ride and that the ride manufacturer, Chances Rides Manufacturing, sold Six Flags a "defective and unreasonably dangerous ride...

Parkland Hospital Sued for Unpaid Overtime

Posted on March 14, 2008
Claiming she and other nurses had not been paid overtime for work done over the course of three years, Carrolton-resident Angela Valcho has filed a lawsuit against Parkland Health & Hospital System. As an hourly employee, a 30-minute lunch was automatically deducted when clocking in and out of the payroll system...

Car Collides with School Bus

Posted on March 13, 2008
A school bus transporting 12 children to an Arlington school for the hearing impaired (Jean Massieu Academy) was struck by a passenger car around 7 a.m. March 13. The small vehicle was attempting to make it through a yellow light on the service road at Loop 12 and Keeneland Parkway in Dallas...

Is Your Doctor Sleeping Enough?

Posted on March 12, 2008
As a patient, anxiety may affect your ability to sleep the night before a medical procedure - we all get a little nervous, right? What if you knew your doctor didn't get much sleep either? The average physician reported an average of 6.5 hours of sleep a night in a recent Internet-based survey by the American College of Chest Physicians' Sleep Institute (ACCP); But 70 percent reported needing at least 7 hours of sleep a night for peak work performance...

Early Morning Dallas Crash Kills 2

Posted on March 12, 2008
Morning rush hour traffic was backed up for miles around the investigation of an early morning - about 3:20 a.m. - crash on Westbound Interstate 635 in Dallas. Another sad incident involving a tractor trailer truck and a small passenger vehicle, WFAA Channel 8 News reported that the car ran underneath the semi truck and the two vehicles ended up on the shoulder...

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