What was wrong with the spoons our mothers used to feed us when we were toddlers? Apparently, they lacked a soft, flexible plastic tip with dramatic colors. Now that the world has such a special spoon it is being recalled because the tip can loosen and break off creating a choking hazard. BabySwede LLC Recalls BABYBJÖRN® Feeding Spoons Due to Choking HazardThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
You serve alcohol at your party. Your guests have a great time. But one partygoer has too much to drink. That guest crashes into another car. The next thing you know you're involved in a lawsuit -- all because of your intoxicated guest.It's possible. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 16,885 people died in alcohol-related crashes last year. It's even more likely that you...
Falling trees have killed two motorists and badly injured a third this evening in eastern Pierce County.One accident occurred about 5 p.m. on the Mountain Highway near Roy when a man swerved to avoid a blown-down tree but hit another and was killed.The other occurred on Harts Lake Valley Road when a car stopped for fallen trees and was hit by another tree coming down. A woman in the car was...
Christmas means many things to each of us. Somehow Merry Christmas has become the condensed greeting and message we deliver to each other. Yet, merriment is probably not what most of us would put at the top of our list of meanings. (And, jolliness probably ranks even lower.)Perhaps, we should couple the greeting with I love you.That may be closer to what we are trying to say with our hugs and...
The FDA has recalled 12 lots of Boston Scientific's Mach 1 Guide Catheters. These devices are tubes that are thread through the body and used to help treat coronary artery disease. Excess strands of resin may be inside of some of the catheters. In the event that excess resin is present and detaches while the catheter is being used in treatment, embolization may occur. Embolization in a blood...
A report today on OccupationalHazards.com said that OSHA fined two contractors in Massachusetts for exposing their employees to fall hazards at residential construction sites. Many worksite fatalities in the construction industry occur because of falls. "Falls are the No. 1 killer in construction," said Francis Pagliuca, OSHA's area director for Middlesex and Essex counties. "Workers' lives are...
An international panel updated their standards on the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, as reported in the October 2006 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS). According to the American Cancer Society, invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 211,240 women and will cause more than 40,000 deaths in 2005. The updated statement reflects the conclusions of a panel...
Three people were hurt, two critically, when their car smashed into a tree in the Green Lake area early Thursday. The accident happened during a rain squall just before 9:00 a.m.Three young men were in a Toyota Corolla in the 6700 block of Aurora Avenue North when they suddenly veered off the road, went over an embankment and into a tree on the west side of Green Lake. Seattle firefighters were...
A hernia is described by doctors as a defect of gap in the abdominal muscle wall through which an intra-abdominal organ can protrude. Weakness or a small tear can cause this gap in the muscle. Ventral hernias usually occur in an area where surgery has previously been performed and are on the abdominal surface. In order to repair a ventral hernia a doctor may use the Kugel Mesh Patch,...
A Nashville school bus collided with a minivan yesterday . Eleven school children and one adult were taken to the hospital for treatment . It appears the bus driver ran a stop sign and hit the minivan . I have been reading about the increase in school bus accidents and lack of sealtbelts on school buses . This accident was clearly the bus driver's fault . Training of these...