- Beth Janicek | March 28, 2008 9:57 AM |
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MiscellaneousJakob 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.
- Beth Janicek | March 27, 2008 4:03 PM |
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MiscellaneousDr. 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. "And now her research is tainted." Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former editor of The...
- Beth Janicek | March 25, 2008 2:52 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesThe 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.An explosion on February 7th at the Imperial Sugar Company Refinery close to Savannah, Georgia...
- Beth Janicek | March 20, 2008 10:43 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesA 5 ½ 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. Two construction workers and a woman from Miami were pulled from the Manhattan crane collapse. Torres,...
- Beth Janicek | March 20, 2008 9:35 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeAmgen 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. In studies of more than 20,000 patients...
- Beth Janicek | March 19, 2008 9:30 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe 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. Since then, we have increased the drugs coming for China. The FDA only inspected 13 or the 566 plants in China last...
- Beth Janicek | March 18, 2008 9:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsTwo 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. Bond was set at $10,000 for Jonathon Gutierrez, 22. At the scene, Gutierrez appeared "dazed and confused," had bloodshot eyes...
- Beth Janicek | March 17, 2008 3:17 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeDennis 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. Instead of receiving the two doses of Hep-lock they received one-thousand times that amount. This is not the first...
- Beth Janicek | March 14, 2008 1:41 PM |
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Medical MalpracticePutnam 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...
- Beth Janicek | March 12, 2008 9:36 AM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseOn 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. The video tape showed Ms. Berlanga slapping and force-feeding Ms. Escobar. The jury took five minutes to convict Ms....
- Beth Janicek | March 11, 2008 8:51 AM |
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Nursing Home & Elder AbuseAntipsychotic 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.The drugs are often precribed...
- Beth Janicek | March 06, 2008 8:57 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesYesterday, 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. The trench was 15 feet of dirt and clay when it caved in. No one has said what caused the trench to cave in. An autopsy will...
- Beth Janicek | March 05, 2008 9:59 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 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...
- Beth Janicek | March 04, 2008 2:13 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 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.If you or a loved one has ever been injured by a drunk driver or hurt while on the...