- Scott Kappes | August 31, 2007 9:38 AM |
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MiscellaneousYesterday retail toy giant Toys R' Us, announced a recall of 27,000 crayon and paint sets. The toy recall once again involves the use of lead, this time in the paint and packing. The black watercolor paint has particularly high concentrations of lead that exceed acceptable federally regulated standards. The Chinese-made coloring sets were sold in Toys R' Us stores from October of 2006 to August...
- Scott Kappes | August 30, 2007 12:08 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn the past months about 20 million toys have been recalled. The toys were labeled as hazardous because of the use of lead based paint and small magnets that could be harmful if swallowed. The toy recalls have shocked many consumers and asked big questions about how children's toys are manufactured. Even before the toy recalls a democrat from Florida, Senator Bill Nelson, had proposed a bill...
- Scott Kappes | August 29, 2007 10:34 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe toy giant Mattel announced the purchase of the rights to several games from Out of the Box Publishing Inc. Mattel will now have the right to produce and distribute Apples to Apples, Snorta, and Blink. This acquisition may be in response to the recent toy recalls that have focused on millions of Chinese made toys bearing the Mattel name. A Mattel vice president said the games were acquired...
- Scott Kappes | August 28, 2007 10:54 AM |
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MiscellaneousIn November of 2006 Mattel issued a voluntary recall of about 2.4 million Polly Pocket Dolls. As it turns out this was only a fraction of the actual defective products. Almost 5 million more play sets were recalled in mid-August. These the additional recalls pose the same risk as the first one, small magnets can become dislodged and can pose serious health risks if swallowed by a child. The...
- Scott Kappes | August 27, 2007 12:27 PM |
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MiscellaneousRecent toy recalls have stricken fear into consumers, and rightfully so. Millions of toys have been recalled in recent months by toy giant Mattel and others. One of the most recent recalls includes Barbie and Tanner play sets. In mid-August Mattel issued a voluntary recall of these dangerous toys.The toys contain small magnets that could pose significant health threats to children if ingested....
- Scott Kappes | August 25, 2007 8:00 AM |
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Wrongful DeathWednesday a Tulsa County Judge upheld a jury decision to award $20 million in wrongful death case. The suit was filed against Deanza Jones, a foster parent for the 7 month old baby. The attorneys in the case claim that the previously healthy baby was grossly neglected in the foster home, which lead directly to her death. Those lawyers maintained that 17 days after Aurora was placed in Jones'...
- Scott Kappes | August 24, 2007 2:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousEarlier this month toy giant Mattel Inc. recalled over 18 million Chinese made toys. The toys were not recalled for poor craftsmanship but questionable manufacturing products. Mattel did initiate a voluntary toy recalls and has taken responsibility for the defects.Many of the toys were contaminated by the use of lead based paint which could pose a very serious health risk to children if...
- Scott Kappes | August 23, 2007 9:23 AM |
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Wrongful DeathThe parents of a former Waco schoolteacher have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her husband. The widower, Matt Baker, is a former pastor at a Baptist church in Lorena, but has since moved to Kerrville with his two daughters where is an part-time youth minister and teacher. The death of the 31 year-old, Kari Lynn Baker, was originally ruled a suicide; however, her parents claim that new...
- Scott Kappes | August 22, 2007 9:14 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsWith the still very relevant recalls of FDA approved drugs, such as Vioxx, it seems that the administration will be employing a more rigorous approval plan for new medications. While an FDA spokesperson says there has been no systematic change in the process, there has been a noticeable decline in the approval rate of medications. The administration has approved only 61 percent of applications...
- Jenny Albano | August 14, 2007 9:35 PM |
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MiscellaneousA hospital security guard used a taser gun on a father who was trying to remove his newborn daughter from the hospital and sent them both crashing to the ground. The father is claiming that the newborn has incurred head trauma because of being dropped.The confrontation was caught on surveillance cameras, but in the video you cannot see the baby falling on her head, like the father, Williams...
- Christen Wiese | August 07, 2007 11:51 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsA study done by Dr. David Kerr of Britain's University of Oxford discovered that the increased risk of an adverse cardiac event happened sooner than originally thought for Vioxx users.The original conclusion from a past study conveyed that Vioxx posed a significant cardiovascular threat after 18 months of use. However, the new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July 2007...
- Allison Snoddy | August 02, 2007 10:46 AM |
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MiscellaneousAvandia is now likely to get stricter labeling due to increase in heart attacks. The FDA recommended this to the advisory panel and added that they are not necessarily initiatiating patients to switch medications.Dr Clifford Rosen of St Joseph Hospital in Maine, who chaired the FDA meeting, said in an interview that "sometimes the older drugs work just as well" at lowering diabetics' blood...
- Jenny Albano | August 01, 2007 12:18 PM |
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MiscellaneousOn Tuesday, July 31, two workers were killed and one was injured when a concrete wall panel collapsed at a construction site in Brownsville. The concrete panel fell on a boom lift, which the workers were operating. The two workers who worked for Texas Steel Erectors Inc. were pronounced dead at the scene.The victims were names were not released due to pending notification of their relatives. ...
- Allison Snoddy | August 01, 2007 11:16 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe FDA says that the manufacturer of the composix kugel mesh patch (Davol, Inc.), is said to have known of the dangers of the product and the several injuries liked with the patch, including one fatality, and still kept it on the market. . The FDA documents also say that Davol underreported the number of device-related complaints it received from doctors about injuries stemming from the Kugel...
- Allison Snoddy | August 01, 2007 11:15 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe ABC News program "Primetime Live" obtained new documents pertaining to Paxil. These documents have never been made public. Earlier in the year the FDA ordered the manufacturers of Paxil to place a warning in bold print on antidepressants, alerting consumers that the drugs can cause suicidal tendencies in children and teenagers.The new documents uncovered by ABC suggest that the maker of...
- Allison Snoddy | August 01, 2007 11:14 AM |
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MiscellaneousAvandia might offer some benefits for you, but to some doctors there are other medications that will treat diabetes better without the possible side effects of Avandia, and they recommend that patients consider switching and going off Avandia right away.The government decided that it didn't have enough information to pull Avandia off shelves last Monday afternoon, but the government did...