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Texas Medical Board (TMB) suspended the license of Beauford Basped, D.O., license of Fort Worth, after a hearing in which the panel determined Dr. Basped had violated previous orders.
The action was based on Dr. Basped’s failure to comply with an agreed order dated April 20, 2007, requiring him to take and pass the Special Purpose Examination (SPEX), a test for basic medical knowledge, and complete the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians Program (CPEP) within 12 months.
DALLAS – A deadly multiple-vehicle accident in downtown Dallas killed two people. A twenty-year-old college student was driving on Continental Avenue when she was killed after an 18-wheeler fell onto her car as it dove off the Woodall Rogers Freeway ramp that leads to Interstate 35. The driver of the truck was thrown from the vehicle and also died.
Authorities said it appeared the truck’s load, a large amount of metal pipe stems, may have shifted and led to the deadly accident.
Pat Ahrens knew something was wrong. The night before, he had dropped his friend Chris Demopoulos off at a Plano motel, promising to return in the morning, but Ahrens wasn’t sure he had done the right thing.
The two had met at the Dallas veterans’ hospital and had bonded over their wartime experiences, the depression that followed and the troubling thoughts of suicide they could not seem to shake. Ahrens was discharged on January 22; Demopoulos checked out the next day, he then gave Demopoulos money for dinner and put him up for the night in a La Quinta Inn at 1820 N. Central Expressway in Plano.
Texas Medical Board issued 672 physician licenses in February, while reducing licensure processing time, and disciplined 50 physicians.
Texas issued a large number of medical licenses, also the board is moving towards meeting its legislative mandate to reduce the time it takes to issue a license; the average time for processing is down to 67.5 days, from a high of more than 90 before last year’s legislative action to increase agency staff and resources to improve licensure processing times.
The Texas Medical Board took disciplinary action against 50 licensed physicians.
The Texas Medical Board panel suspended the license of Dennis Donald Roberts, M.D., after ruling that Dr. Roberts’ continuation in the practice of medicine would present a continuing threat to the public welfare.
The temporary suspension hearing took place under the Board’s authority, granted by S.B. 104 of the 78th Legislature, to suspend or restrict a physician’s license without notice when it determines the physician’s continuation in practice would constitute a continuing threat to the public welfare. The suspension is effective immediately.
FDA has reviewed 30 postmarketing reports of acute pancreatitis in patients taking Byetta, a drug used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes. An association between Byetta and acute pancreatitis is suspected in some of these cases.
Healthcare professionals should instruct patients taking Byetta to seek prompt medical care if they experience unexplained persistent severe abdominal pain which may or may not be accompanied by vomiting. If pancreatitis is suspected, Byetta should be discontinued. If pancreatitis is confirmed, Byetta should not be restarted unless an alternative etiology is identified.
FDA has asked and the maker of Byetta, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has agreed to include information about acute pancreatitis in the PRECAUTIONS section of the product label.
The Duragesic and generic fentanyl pain patches have been linked to hundreds of cases of overdose and death. Poor design, manufacturing defects, inadequate warnings and poor quality controls could result in excessive amounts of fentanyl entering the body.
Lawsuits have been filed throughout the United States for users who have died or entered a permanent coma from a fentanyl overdose.
Johnson & Johnson was the main manufacturer as well as a variety of generic fentanyl patch manufacturers.
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