- Wayne Parsons | November 30, 2008 12:58 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe general approach to cancer research is to treat each cancer as a unique disease. Now Hartmut Hucky Land, Ph.D., is taking the opposite approach: what do all cancers have in common and how can...
- Wayne Parsons | November 30, 2008 12:13 PM |
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MiscellaneousDaniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian of the University of Chicago) have published a new study in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology on how we use emoticons, subject lines, and...
- Wayne Parsons | November 28, 2008 1:25 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeAcute kidney injury (AKI) is often caused by trauma, illness, or surgery. Research now shows that people who have suffered AKI have a higher risk later in life of getting the most serious form of...
- Wayne Parsons | November 28, 2008 1:46 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsYes we have three branches of Government:
Executive (president, governor and mayor)
Legislative (Congress, state legislature and county/city council)
Judicial (the courts)
In the first...
- Wayne Parsons | November 28, 2008 1:27 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesHEADLINE: Consumers Union Calls on the FDA to Immediately Release All Results of Its Tests for Melamine Contamination in Food Products. Group ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Reports of FDA Test...
- Wayne Parsons | November 27, 2008 10:45 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesWhy would a person book mark and regularly visit the Center For Disease Control (CDC) website? There are many reasons from protecting yourself and your family from food poisoning to being vigilant...
- Wayne Parsons | November 27, 2008 2:56 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsVaccine Layering Extra Risky
You're planning a trip to Central Africa so you need a vaccination for Yellow Fever... your doctor has urged you to get immunized against shingles... and you still...
- Wayne Parsons | November 25, 2008 2:40 PM |
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MiscellaneousI am stepping outside of the normal topics on this Blog because I care about getting Jim Martin elected in the Georgia Senate run-off election. The race is close and national attention is focused on...
- Wayne Parsons | November 25, 2008 2:16 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesAccording to an editorial report from the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology that unless proof can be established that there are no health problems from mineral oil, people should...
- Wayne Parsons | November 24, 2008 1:47 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesNo this isn't about how to poison a turkey, or the people who will eat the turkey on Thanksgiving. Its about how to prevent that from happening.
Why worry you ask? Here are the facts according to...
- Wayne Parsons | November 23, 2008 10:10 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesAny discussion of food poisoning should start with where a person can find out about the subject and where to report suspected food poisoning. The State of Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) has...
- Wayne Parsons | November 23, 2008 3:40 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesPesticides leach into the Hawaii ground water system and end up in our drinking water. The warm tropical sun causes the pesticides to evaporate and enter the building through gaps in the foundation...
- Wayne Parsons | November 17, 2008 12:44 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
Florida
ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2008) — A vision screening law targeting Florida drivers age 80 and older appears to be associated with lower death rates from motor vehicle...
- Wayne Parsons | November 16, 2008 5:24 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesWhile looking into some issues relating to food poisoning I came across a very informative article written By Michael Bryant from St. Cloud, Minnesota about pet food poisoning. It turns out that the...
- Wayne Parsons | November 16, 2008 4:30 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesThe United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds a meeting on November19, 2008 of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) at which it intends to weaken the meaning of organic as used in...
- Wayne Parsons | November 16, 2008 3:40 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesHawaii has suffered from contamination of ground water by pesticides in the past and the water system is always at risk from pesticides. In the early 1990's the University of Hawaii studied 40...
- Wayne Parsons | November 15, 2008 4:12 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe Fresh Summit 2008 was just held in ________ with attendance from all over the world. More than 17,000 attendees from 70 countries usally attend and this year's Summit highlighted important...
- Wayne Parsons | November 15, 2008 3:24 PM |
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Toxic Substances
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 9 held a public hearing in Lahaina centered on what happens to waste water. The reason for the hearing is a proposed...
- Wayne Parsons | November 15, 2008 2:12 PM |
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MiscellaneousI was surprised by the huge response to my original post on this subject. I myself have been educating myself about Formaldehyde contact dermatitis and the clothing industry manufacturing process....
- Wayne Parsons | November 14, 2008 5:32 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe recent news story on Victoria's Secret Bras causing allergic skin reaction in women wearing the bras raises the question of the connection between Formaldehyde and women's...
- Wayne Parsons | November 14, 2008 3:49 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe American Association of Justice (AAJ) in partnership with American University’s Washington College of Law, has issued a report on dangerous foreign products, entitled Defective Foreign...
- Wayne Parsons | November 14, 2008 2:53 AM |
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MiscellaneousWould it surprise that 1 out of every 25 previously damaged vehicles on the road have phony or dummy airbags? Victoria Cavaliere of New York News reports that the New York City Police Department...
- Wayne Parsons | November 13, 2008 1:37 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
A woman in Ohio purchased Victoria's Secret bras and after wearing them came down with hot , blistering welts and severe itching that made it difficult to sleep. She filed suit in May after tests...
- Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 1:21 PM |
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Medical Malpractice The patient experienced shortness of breath and coughing and felt a constant need to clear his throat. He went to an internist at a medical group, who ordered a chest X-ray. The X-ray was...
- Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 1:14 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn this case a woman in her 32nd week of pregnancy had a fetal monitor show that her baby was experiencing tachycardia. The patient was admitted to a hospital for several days and was administered...
- Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 1:00 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn this unfortunate case a 1‑month‑old child experienced a fever of 101.3 degrees. Her parents took her to a hospital emergency room where she underwent chest X‑ray, urinalysis and blood work. The...
- Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 12:50 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn this real case a woman in her 40's underwent a screening mammogram which was read by the radiologist as normal. Several months later she detected a lump in her left breast and was subsequently...
- Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 12:35 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsIan Lawrence is a physicist is suffering from a cancerous tumor that was discovered on the optical nerve leading to his left eye. According to BBC News, Europeans are looking to a small number of...
- Wayne Parsons | November 08, 2008 2:04 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWhen a claim is made by a person injured in an automobile accident in Hawaii the covered loss deductible automatically reduces the amount recovered by the injured party. How does it work? let's look...
- Wayne Parsons | November 07, 2008 4:00 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsType 2 Diabetes treatments increase in number and cost. A new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine documents the increase over the past few years of a more complex and expensive range of...
- Wayne Parsons | November 07, 2008 3:50 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesAccording to an article published November 3, 2008 in Science Daily the thickness of sea ice in large areas of the Arctic was reduced by nearly 19 percent (half a meter). In the summer of 2007 the...