The FDA this week attacked several companies involved in an eye wash and a skin cream without FDA authorization. The FDA stated that these prescription medications could cause risks to patients. Balanced salt solution is an eye wash which is used to keep the eyes moist. Two companies, Alcon Laboratories…
Dallas-A man died earlier this week in Dallas when an 18-wheeler crashed into the back of his car on Interstate 45. Police investigators say the black Suzuki car was stopped in a northbound traffic lane on the interstate just north of Loop 12. The car exploded when the tractor-trailer hit…
A Kansas District Court judge says the city of Neodesha is entitled by law to recover the costs of cleanup and damage caused by an oil refinery. The ruling from the judge overturns a jury verdict that sided with oil giant British Petroleum (BP) Corp. North America. The judge made…
According to sources the EPA is planning to rule that it will not set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate. Perchlorate is a highly toxic substance; a component of rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women, newborns and young children across the United States. The…
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that Ed McMahon’s medical malpractice lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and doctors can proceed. McMahon had alleged claims that include negligence, elder abuse, battery, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Attorneys for Cedars-Sinai Hospital had challenged the negligence lawsuit for six of…
Austin,Texas: The Texas Board of Nursing (BON) will begin administering the Nursing Jurisprudence Examination (NJE) to all initial nursing licensure applicants by examination and endorsement who apply on or after September 1, 2008. The NJE will be a new licensure requirement for LVN and RN students seeking licensure through the…
In October Medicare will stop paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their care. Medicare, has put 10 “reasonably preventable” conditions on its initial list; patients who receive incompatible blood transfusions, those who develop infections after certain surgeries or those who must undergo a…
The FDA earlier this week imposed a ban on 30 drugs made by the Indian pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories. Ranbaxy is one of the largest suppliers of generic medicines to the United States. This ban follows FDA inspections of two of the company’s plants in India that were found to…
Medical mistakes, though common in adults, can have disasterous results in children. The actor Dennis Quaid’s twins nearly died last year after receiving 1,000 times the prescribed dose of a blood thinner Heparin. Other infants have died from the same medication error. A study in the journal Pediatrics earlier this…
Several thousand MacGregor and Mitre folding soccer goals were recalled today, after the death of a toddler. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said a 20-month-old Texas toddler was strangled when his head and arm became caught up in the net of one of the recalled goals. The agency received one…