The number of serious accidents involving trucks is on the rise, with more than 10 people dying each day on American roadways. The increase was 18 percent over the most recent three-year period as reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Almost 4,000 people are killed each year, with some 300 fatalities in Pennsylvania, […]
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Three New York hospitals and an information services company are at the center of a class-action lawsuit alleging they engaged in price fixing in the production of patient medical records, according to a report by Law360. When hospitals receive requests for patient medical records, the records are then copied, either by the hospital or an outside
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: 107, 800 Porter-Cable Fixed-Base Production Routers Recalled Due to Electrical Shock Hazard Gemini Recalls 31,000 Power Adaptor/Chargers Due to Burn Hazard Lifeguard Press Recalls 25,400 Charging Kits Due to Fire, Shock Hazards All Power America Recalls 10,000 Snow
Have you ever been curious about what your doctor is writing in your chart? Future practices may allow you to not only a get closer look, but also to suggest changes and additions to your own medical information. Government incentives for healthcare providers are coaxing more hospitals into the electronic age. Today more than half
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Scott, Trek Recall 125,200 Bicycles with SR Suntour Front Forks Due to Crash Hazard Coravin Recalls 65,640 to Repair Wine Access System Due to Laceration Hazard Wolf Steel Recalls 3000 Napoleon Propane Gas Fireplaces Due to Laceration
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A service station owner will be allowed to press his case for punitive damages against the Ford Motor Co. for exposing him to brake-lining asbestos, under a ruling by the Supreme Court of California. A jury had already awarded Patrick Scott $1.5 million in compensatory damages and legal costs against Ford in November 2012 and
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Linear Expands Recall of Personal Emergency Reporting System Transmitters to 175,000, Due to Battery Signal Failure Reebok-CCM Recalls 114,000 Throat Collars Due to Laceration Hazard Trane Recalls 100,600 Air Conditioning Systems Due to Shock Hazard American Signature Recalls 730 Table Lamps Due to
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Oral cancer is the growth of abnormal cells on the lips, tongue, gums, mouth floor, cheek lining or back of the throat. A delay in diagnosing the cancer can cause it to spread to the lymph nodes or other areas of the body. An early sign of oral cancer may be the development of a white or red patch
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Following three deaths, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of 113,000 portable bed handles used to help people get in and out of bed. The CPSC stated that the handles can shift out of place when attached to a bed without the use of safety retention straps which were not provided with all products. This created
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Hitachi Koki Recalls 25,300 units of Pneumatic Nailers Due to Injury Hazards Big Lots Recalls 14,000 Ottomans Due to Fall Hazard Weil-McLain Recalls 8,440 Ultra Series Boilers Due to Risk of Fire, Explosion SCOTT Recalls 2,000 Speedster Bicycles Due to Fall Hazard American
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A nasogastric tube is a flexible rubber or plastic tube that is inserted through the nose and down the esophagus into the stomach. It can be used to remove contents from the stomach or to administer nutrition or medications in a patient who cannot take food or drink by mouth. After a nasogastric tube, or NGT, is
A feeding tube in the lung can cause brain damage and death Read More »
California’s $250,000 cap on medical malpractice verdicts is going before the voters on the November ballot after opponents gathered more than 840,000 signatures on a petition seeking to change the state law. The initiative is being led by Bob Pack, whose two young children were killed in 2003 when they were run down by a drunken and
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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Ontel Recalls 170,000 Isometric Exercise Devices Due to Projectile Hazard 134,000 Troy-Bilt Electric Leaf Blowers Recalled by MTD Due to Laceration Hazard 24,000 Remington Electric Leaf Blowers Recalled by MTD Due to Laceration Hazard E-Z-GO Recalls 30,000 Golf, Shuttle, Off-Road Utility Vehicles Due
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The Food and Drug Administration has proposed stricter classifications on surgically implanted vaginal mesh devices. The new classification would place pelvic mesh devices in the “high risk” classification, moving it up from the “moderate risk” category. The more restrictive classification would require makers of the devices to submit clinical data to the FDA regarding the newly manufactured
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Compartment syndrome occurs when there is swelling and increased internal pressure within an arm, leg or abdomen. After an injury or bone fracture there can be bleeding, swelling or fluid accumulation underneath the skin. Because the skin is not open the fluid has nowhere to escape and the pressure continues to increase. If the pressure
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