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• Texas A&M Student Killed

  Ashley Davis | March 03, 2009 11:27 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Unfortunately On Sunday March 1, 2009, a young Texas A&M student was killed after being struck by a vehicle in a Northgate parking garage. Lindsay Walters was paying for her parking ticket at...

• Children's Products Will Soon Face New Lead Regulations

  Scott Kappes | January 20, 2009 5:03 PM | 1 CommentHouston, TX

  On February 10, 2009 the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission’s Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act will begin to go into effect. New lead standards will be one major accomplishment...

• Number of Americans With Diabetes Has Increased by 15 Percent Over Last 2 Years

  Scott Kappes | June 25, 2008 4:56 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Over the last decade the number of Americans affected by diabetes has drastically increased. According to a new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about 24 million...

• Advocacy Group Calls For Ortho Evra to Pulled From the Market

  Scott Kappes | May 08, 2008 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Today the watchdog group Public Citizen petitioned the U.S. government to pull the birth control patch Ortho Evra from the market. Ortho Evra has been linked to higher rates of blood clots and...

• Woman Dies After Being Ignored in Hospital Waiting Room

  Scott Kappes | July 01, 2008 5:53 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Several employees of a Brooklyn hospital have been fired or suspended after a psychiatric patient died in the waiting room of the hospital. Staff members ignored the patient for an hour before...

• Chantix Banned for Use by Truckers

  Scott Kappes | May 23, 2008 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  A new study is causing quite a stir over Pfizer’s popular stop smoking aid Chantix. This week the FAA announced that Chantix would no longer be included in the list of medications that pilots...

• Singer Emilio Navaira Critically Injured in Bus Crash

  Jenny Albano | March 23, 2008 5:46 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured on Sunday after his band's bus crashed on a highway in Houston.Navaira and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 a.m. Sunday, the band's bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, a well-to-do enclave within the city west of downtown Houston, Bellaire...

• Chantix May Trigger Manic Episodes

  Scott Kappes | December 06, 2007 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  An American Journal of Psychiatry article suggests the smoking cessation drug Chantix may induce manic episodes in patients with bipolar disorder. The article tells the story of a 63 year-old man with a history of bi-polar disorder. The patient had been stable for 5 years while being treated with valproic acid. One week after starting Pfizer's Chantix the man was committed to an inpatient...

• Safety of Advair in Children Being Evaluated

  Scott Kappes | November 26, 2007 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is under fire again, this time concerning the safety of popular asthma medications Advair and Serevent. The top-selling drugs have been blockbusters for GSK, with Advair alone accounting for almost seven billion in sales in 2006. Concerns about the drugs' safety stem from reports of rare and potentially life-threatening side effects in children under the age of...

• Innocent Bystander Shot In Police Stand-off With Gunman

  Scott Kappes | May 26, 2009 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  An innocent passerby was shot by a gunman involved in standoff with Alvin police last night. The standoff began when Alvin police approached a distraught man in a grassy area at the Wedgwood...