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Injuries Soar

Posted on April 16, 2008
Nail gun injuries take off during the building boom of the 2000's. Air powered nail guns equipped with a mechanism that allows automatic firing known as "contact trip" have been in controversy surrounding warnings from researchers and doctors. Some nail guns can blast 30 nails a minute that travel up to 490 feet per second, qualifying the nails as low-velocity missiles...

Falls in Nursing Homes

Posted on April 14, 2008
Falls in Nursing Homes are a serious problem. The statistics are staggering. Each year nursing homes of 100 beds reports 100 to 200 falls and many falls go unreported. Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of injury deaths...

Fairness is Nursing Home Arbitration Act

Posted on April 11, 2008
Senators Martinez and Kohl have recently introduced the "Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act". The bill provides that arbitration agreements signed between the nursing homes and residents or their responsible third parties during the admission process are unenforceable...

Medical Errors Cause Hundreds of Preventable Deaths

Posted on April 09, 2008
According tot the Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study, patient safety errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of U.S Medicare patients from 2004 to 2006. Additionally, the medical errors cost the Medicare program $8.8 billion...

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Head On Crash Involves Two Motorcycles

Posted on April 08, 2008
On April 6, 2008, two men died when their motorcycles crashed head-on on FM 471. "Department of Public Safety Trooper David Pinedo said Brigman, who was traveling southbound on a 2006 Kawasaki, failed to negotiate a curve and drifted into the lane of oncoming traffic where it hit the northbound 2007 Suzuki driven by Saldivar...

Preemption-"Silent Tort Reform"

Posted on April 04, 2008
There is a developing body of judicial opinion that will place new limits on the rights of those who buy or use products, consumer advocates say. It greatly benefits big companies as it insulates them from lawsuits. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the federal law to control when it clashed with State law...

Kindred Healthcare Spent Over $1 million Lobbying

Posted on April 03, 2008
Forbes magazine reported that reports from the lobbyist show that Kindred Healthcare spent over one million in lobbying the federal government last year. Kindred Healthcare operates hospitals, rehabilitation centers and imaging centers. The group lobbied the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, the Health and Human Services Department (this federal department oversees nursing homes) and the Office of Management & Budget...

Arbitration Agreements Increasing

Posted on April 01, 2008
Binding arbitration agreements are increasing between physicians, nursing homes and healthcare institutions. Some states have started taking legislative action to limit the agreements. An American Medical Association official said that the organization did not have a policy on the issue, and that the only information it had was a 2003 report discussing arbitration as one method of medical liability reform...

Arbitration Agreements Increasing

German Shepherd Attacks Nine Year Old

Posted on March 28, 2008
Jakob Kelso of Columbus, Indiana was attacked by a friend's dog. The dog attacked his face, puncturing his cheek and nose and knocking out a tooth. Jakob Kelso needed over 100 stitches on the outside of his face and more inside his mouth. The owner has quarantined the dog and plans to destroy it...

German Shepherd Attacks Nine Year Old

Lung Cancer Study Financed by Cigarette Company

Posted on March 27, 2008
Dr. Claudia Henschke published a study showing 80% of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans. "She's the biggest advocate for widespread spiral CT screening," said Dr. Paul Bunn, a lung cancer expert and executive director of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer...

Imperial Sugar Company Plant Cited for Safety Violations

Posted on March 25, 2008
The Imperial Sugar Company in Gramercy Louisiana was cited for several violations. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited violations that could total $36,000 in penalties. Some of the violations were the dust collectors were not correctly equipped with explosion protection systems...

Death Toll Rises in Crane Collapse

Posted on March 20, 2008
A 5 � ton steel collar being installed around a 20 story crane broke loose from a building on East 51st St. and as the collar fell it struck another collar, knocking it loose rendering the crane unstable. The unsupported crane tumbled, crashing into the building and leveling a town house...

ARTHRITIS DRUG ADDS WARNING

Posted on March 20, 2008
Amgen and Wyeth adds strongest U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning to the prescribing information for the arthritis drug Enbrel. Amgen who manufactures the drug has now highlighted the risk of infections, including tuberculosis. The warning, already in boldface, must now be highlighted inside a boxed border, the so- called "black box" warning...

Contaminated Heparin Linked to Sickness and Deaths

Posted on March 19, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, is facing another crisis. Heparin, a blood thinner that is manufactured in China, was contaminated. The contaminated Heparin has been linked to 19 deaths and made hundreds of people sick. The last big drug crisis from China was in 1999...

Two Men Hurt When Intoxicated Driver Hits Parked Car

Posted on March 18, 2008
Two men were stopped on the shoulder of I-37 early Sunday morning to change a flat tire. Jonathon Gutierrez struck the men's parked vehicle injuring them. Jeremy Sanchez was thrown over the guardrail and broke his right thigh bone and Andrew Borego broke his left leg...

Dennis Quaid Twins' Victims of Medical Malpractice

Posted on March 17, 2008
Dennis and Kimberly Quaid speak out about the medical mistakes at Cedars-Sinai hospital that almost cost them their children's lives. Their twins were supposed to be given two doses of Hep-lock which is the children's version of Heparin. Hep-lock and Heparin are blood thinners...

70 Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Settled Against Putnam General Hospital

Posted on March 14, 2008
Putnam General Hospital has agreed to settle 70 medical malpractice cases involving John Anderson King who they employed for six months between November 2002 and June 2003. King, so far, has not agreed to settle any lawsuits filed against him. King had medical licenses in approximately 15 states, but 10 of those licenses have been surrendered, suspended or revoked due to the lawsuits and stealing medical records from a hospital in Florida...

Caretaker Guilty Of Elderly Abuse

Posted on March 12, 2008
On March 10, 2008, Alma Berlanga was found guilty of elderly abuse. Ms. Berlanga was the caregiver to Ofelia Escobar who is a bedridden 83 year old woman with Alzheimer's. The family had concerns about Ms. Berlanga's treatment to their mother and installed a hidden camera...

Overuse of Antipsychotics in the Nursing Homes

Posted on March 11, 2008
Antipsychotic drugs are over prescribed to all the elderly including those in the nursing homes. Medicaid sent out a mandate last year to nursing home inspectors to crack down on the over prescribing of the antipsychotic drugs. Of the state's 398 nursing homes, 38 percent were cited last year for using such medications inappropriately, up from 27 percent in 2006...

Construction Worker Killed from Cave-in

Posted on March 06, 2008
Yesterday, around 3:30 p.m. a construction site trench caved in burying Luis Garcia. Luis Garcia was dead when they were finally able to find him at 10 p.m. His brother, Robert Gomez was also in the trench when the cave in occurred, but only suffered minor injuries...

Study Shows Children between 12 and 16 Increase Deaths in Car Crashes

Posted on March 05, 2008
A study from the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine shows children ages 12-16 are more likely to die in a car crash than children younger than 12. Of the nearly 10,000 passenger deaths studied by the CHOP researchers, more than half (54.4 percent) were riding with a driver under age 20; nearly two-thirds were unrestrained; and more than three-quarters of the crashes occurred on roads with posted speed limits above 45-miles- per-hour...

Police Car Hit By Drunk Driver

Posted on March 04, 2008
A drunk driver slammed his Dodge Ram into a police car on Sunday morning. Officer Matthew Belver was driving the police car when he was struck the by the truck and spun out and hit another vehicle. There were only minor injuries. The driver of the Dodge Ram was over the legal limit of alcohol and was arrested...

Study Finds Staffing Effects Survival Rate

Posted on February 28, 2008
A recent study released in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that survival rate was better for hospital patients who suffered cardiac arrest during the day as compared to the patients who suffered the cardiac arrest at night. "It may be that patients aren't checked as often or that there aren't as many staffers in the hospital to respond quickly to emergencies...

Former Dallas Cowboy Challenges Texas Medical Malpractice Caps

Posted on February 27, 2008
Ron Springs, a former Dallas Cowboy player, is one of eleven plaintiffs challenging Texas' medical malpractice caps. The lawsuit challenges if the limits awarded to Plaintiffs of medical malpractices are unconstitutional. The 2003 Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act limited awards for pain and suffering to $250,000...

Motorcyclist killed by Hit and Run Driver

Posted on February 25, 2008
On Friday night, a motorcyclist died after being hit by a PT Cruiser. The driver of the PT Cruiser jumped out of the car and ran from the scene of the accident. The driver of the motorcycle was killed and the police are still searching for the hit and run driver...

Three Construction Workers Injured

Posted on February 22, 2008
This morning, three construction workers were injured while working at a site at The Shops at La Cantera. One of the corners collapsed and the workers slid 28 feet. They were not critically hurt.

School Bus Crash Kills 4

Posted on February 20, 2008
A school bus crashed with several other vehicles Tuesday in Cottonwood, Minnesota killing four students. The first arriving motorists on the scene had to rush injured students to the hospital. The school bus was lying on it's side and kids were screaming on the bus...

Deadly Car Accident Kills 3 Teens

Posted on February 19, 2008
In Austin on Texas 71, three teens and five other people were injured when a Ford pickup truck hydroplaned into oncoming traffic and hit slammed into an Acura. Audrey Ducote, 17, Randall H. Hibler,17, and Lauren Hoffman, 16 were killed. Amy Wright, 43, Kathryn Powers, 17, Katherine Singleton, 17, Tammy Goodman, and Stephen Goodman, 7, were all injured...

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