Last night the CBS Evening News featured an interesting story on Pfizer's prescription stop smoking drug Chantix. The story featured an interview with 33 year-old Amy Garza, a 17 year smoker who tried Chantix to help her quit smoking. Garza was initially very pleased with the results she got from the drug and thought she was well on her way to living a smoke-free life, that is until she tried to...
Manufacturers of sterile medical products are supposed to follow strict sterility standards. Unfortunately, there has been a growing number of reports and recalls of contaminated medical products caused by poor quality controls by manufacturers of products required to be sterile. The latest recall involves heparin IV flush syringes found to be contaminated with Serratia marcescens, a...
A report recently released by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Concerns of Police Survivors stated that there has been 186 officer deaths since December 26th. This has increased from 145 in 2006.Eighty-one officers died in traffic-related accidents and there have been 69 shooting deaths.Craig Floyd, chairman of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, stated...
Antidepressants are again under scrutiny.According to a Yahoo! News Article dated December 18, 2007, the Supreme Court will hear a case regarding a teen, Christopher Pittman, sentenced to 30 years of prison for killing his grandparents and setting fire to their home at age 12. His attorneys argue that the lengthy sentence violates the teen's Eighth Amendment protection from cruel and unusual...
Nashville has had a significant decrease in traffic deaths in 2007. According to a press release by the Nashville Police Department , traffic deaths are down 22 percent this year . Police credit increased DUI enforcement as one the main factors in the decrease . The Governor's Highway Safety Office has funded extra police officers to patrol the streets in Nashville looking for drunk...
A 17-year-old boy was attacked and killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day. Somehow the 350-pound Siberian Tiger was able to escape from it's enclosure. The tiger attack happened shortly after the zoo closed. Although some zoo officials speculate the threesome may have teased the tiger, San Francisco police Lt. Leroy Lindo said police currently have no reason to believe...
A plan the would have allowed greater access to health care for those suffering from World Trade Center Illness was stopped by the CDC. The proposed program would have reimbursed doctors for treating patients that live outside of the New York City area. Many rescuers traveled from across the country and are now feeling the effects of the toxic fumes and materials that filled the air following...
A drunk driver by the name of Gregory Lee Wills may soon be facing felony vehicular homicide charges after causing a deadly car wreck on December 11, 2007 in Forsyth County. According to officials, one of the passengers involved in the dui accident, a 10-year-old minor, recently passed away due to the injuries she sustained. The young girl bravely battled for her life for more than a week at...
17 year old Carlos Sousa died tragically yesterday at the San Francisco Zoo. Let the zoo experts figure out how and why this happened and make certain steps are taken to insure this never happens again, in San Francisco or anywhere. In the meantime, let's turn our attention to the legal aspects of this case. The zoo had prior notice of a problem and took no corrective action. An...
"Attention Safeway shoppers, business owners now owe nondelegable duties to their invitees to keep their premises reasonably safe."Steven H. Simon sued Safeway after he was injured during a store altercation with a security guard who "physically and sexually" assaulted him. The guard was employed by a third-party company who had contracted with Safeway. He mistakenly concluded that Mr. Simon...