In a move that is widely seen as a step in the right direction for consumer safety, a consortium of pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions will combine forces to study data concerning the link between genetics and drug safety. The pharmaceutical companies involved in the group include: Abbott Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc., Roche Holding AG,...
New York agriculture officials are warning consumers not to eat certain Topps Brand ground beef because it may be tainted with E. coli bacteria.The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service later announced, Topps was voluntarily recalling approximately 331,582 pounds of frozen ground beef products.The frozen ground beef patties are available in two sizes. One of the...
Simplicity for Children has just issued their fourth recall in two years. The cribs, manufactured in China, are marketed under the Graco brand name. Simplicity recalled the product after two infants died because the drop-rail sides of their cribs were installed upside down. Both infants became trapped in the drop-rail, and suffocated to death.. For more information on this subject, please...
I read a very odd story in the Chronicle today about a Texas man who is suing a medical technology company and several tissue processes sing businesses. In 2005 James Livinston underwent surgery to implant a bone in his neck to relieve persistant back pain. It was later discovered that the bone was stolen from a corpse. Livingston has now filed a lawsuit in New York and is monetary compensation...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has brought a lawsuit against 11 major mortgage lenders, including Ameriquest Mortgage, for singling out black people for costly subprime loans.Angela Ciccolo, an NAACP attorney, and Austin Tighe, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, confirmed that some of the 11 lenders named in the lawsuit had begun meeting with the...
An auto passenger was killed and three people were seriously injured on interstate 275 last night by a driver going the wrong way on the interstate. The accident was caused by two criminals who were trying to escape from the police. The Saint Petersburg police were chasing the suspects on St. Petersburg city streets at 2:30 in the morning when the suspects entered the interstate going the...
A study published in the September 4th issue of Neurology indicates that smokers are 50% more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or dementia than non-smokers or those who used to smoke. The Rotterdam Study, a large population-based, cohort study from the Netherlands which was designed to investigate the incidence and causes of cardiovascular, neurologic, endocrine, and ophthalmologic...
A St. Petersburg car crash closed south bound lanes of I-275 for hours this morning following a high speed police chase. The suspect was driving a Ford Escort the wrong way on 275 when it crashed into another vehicle, a Toyota Camry, head-on. The passenger in the Toyota Camry was taken to Bayfront Hospital and later died.
With food poisoning and contamination cases raising public awareness of the precarious nature of our nation's food supply, the FDA will seek broader powers to monitor and regulate the manufacturing, processing, and inspection of foods, according to a Wall St. Journal report. According to the WSJ article, the FDA will seek more authority in three areas: contamination prevention, a risk-based...
The case of Reyher v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company out of the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's summary judgment on the issue of what a medical doctor should or should not be reimbursed by the automobile insurance company based on a submission of a Auto Injury Management database.In October 2001, Reyher was injured in an automobile accident and required...