- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 3:00 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsAs reported on the KITV Nes website a motorcycle crash closed a portion of the eastbound lanes of Farrington Highway in Waipahu Monday afternoon.
A motorcyclist was critically injured in the...
- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 2:36 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesThe Wall Street Journal (12/30, Prada) reports, A federal judge on Monday denied class-action status to thousands of hurricane victims seeking damages for alleged exposure to a toxic chemical while...
- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 1:18 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeColonoscopy Significantly Reduces Death From Left-sided Colon Cancer But Not From Right-sided
ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2008) — A new study finds that colonoscopy is strongly associated with...
- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 1:05 PM |
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Toxic Substances
ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2008) — Good quality extra-virgin olive oil contains health-relevant chemicals, ‘phytochemicals’, that can trigger cancer cell death. New research sheds...
- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 12:34 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeResearchers Discover Method for Identifying How Cancer Evades the,Immune System
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[Outline] ...PHILADELPHIA July 3 2007-- One of the fundamental traits of atumor ... In the...
- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 12:18 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)At 8 p.m. on Christmas night, a surveillance camera on a Caribbean cruise ship captured the image of a woman in a bathrobe falling over the railing. Two days later, her husband accepted condolences...
- Wayne Parsons | December 30, 2008 12:10 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsDecember 29, 2008
Drug Companies and Doctors
The latest New York Review of Books (Jan. 15, 2009 issue) contains an interesting article by Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England...
- Wayne Parsons | December 29, 2008 2:26 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsMotorcycles operating two abreast in same lane: Yes. §291C-153 - Operating motorcycles on roadways laned for traffic. (a) All motorcycles are entitled to full use of a lane and no motor vehicle...
- Wayne Parsons | December 29, 2008 2:24 PM |
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
ScienceDaily (Dec. 25, 2008) — At least one in 25 older adults, about 2.2 million people in the United States, take multiple drugs in combinations that can produce a harmful drug-drug...
- Wayne Parsons | December 26, 2008 3:18 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsScientists at The Babraham Institute have begun to unpick the complex mechanisms underpinning the development of drug resistant cancers. They have identified a novel target that may help to combat...
- Wayne Parsons | December 26, 2008 3:06 AM |
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FDA & Prescription Drugshttp://www.oncologynursingnews.com/Lung-Cancer-Vaccine-Undergoing-Study-May-Be-on-the-Horizon/article/122228/
December 08, 2008
A clinical trial has begun at the Moores Cancer Center...
- Wayne Parsons | December 25, 2008 1:43 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsCoast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) received a call from a Hawaii State Department of Health official about a man who was injured in a 3:45 a.m. head-on car accident on Maui. A Coast...
- Wayne Parsons | December 25, 2008 1:10 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesIn her Nutrition Blog at About.com, Shereen Jegtvig answers the question "Is sugar a drug?"
- Wayne Parsons | December 25, 2008 12:51 PM |
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Spinal Cord Injuries
ScienceDaily reports on Dec. 23, 2008 that spine surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Florida are using a three-dimensional (3D) image-guided system to help place screws in the spines of patients. They...
- Wayne Parsons | December 24, 2008 1:38 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
Poor Sleep Quality Linked To Postpartum Depression
ScienceDaily (Dec. 24, 2008) — Postpartum depression (PPD) can lead to poor sleep quality, recent research shows. A new study shows...
- Wayne Parsons | December 24, 2008 1:17 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsIn an article appearing in some 30 papers and websites including the Washington Post, the AP (12/24, Perrone) reports that the FDA has scolded the Coca-Cola company for placing inappropriate...
- Wayne Parsons | December 24, 2008 1:01 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsLisa Fayed's Blog at About.com on December 18, 2008 reports ona possible connection between cancer and diabeters.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
- Wayne Parsons | December 23, 2008 1:44 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe CBS Evening News (12/22, story 10, 0:25, Smith) reported, There is a new warning tonight for Americans looking to take a short cut to weight loss. The FDA has listed more than 25 weight loss...
- Wayne Parsons | December 23, 2008 3:33 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeBoston.com again reports on significant medical discoveries, this time for ovarian cancer patients from the New England Journal of Medicine and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.. MicroRNAs are a tiny but...
- Wayne Parsons | December 23, 2008 3:11 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsChildren whose mothers took antacid drugs during pregnancy were 1.5 times more likely to develop asthma than children whose mothers did not take the drugs, researchers from Children's Hospital...
- Wayne Parsons | December 22, 2008 1:36 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIn his role analyzing legal issues for CBS, attorney Andrew Cohen looks at the organization named the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Lest you confuse the name with your local Chamber of Commerce there is...
- Wayne Parsons | December 21, 2008 5:50 PM |
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Toxic Substances Benefits of breastfeeding outweigh risks of infant exposure to environmental chemicals in breast milk. As reported in Science Daily on December 20, 2008 a new study compares infants who were...
- Wayne Parsons | December 21, 2008 5:06 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsToy safety is on the top of the list with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) this month. The stores are filled with toys for the holidays and parents and grandparents are scouring...
- Wayne Parsons | December 19, 2008 1:01 PM |
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Wrongful Death
The AP (12/19, Elias) reports, Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, the state's high court on Thursday said a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling...
- Wayne Parsons | December 19, 2008 2:34 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsIn a report appearing in at least 66 media outlets, the AP (12/18) reports, Under new FDA policy, drug companies will have to test [diabetes] drugs on greater numbers of high-risk patients, such as...
- Wayne Parsons | December 18, 2008 1:23 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA crosswalk has no barriers that protect pedestrians as they cross the street. The white stripes are not a safety zone for a pedestrian. We often see pedestrians in a cross walk looking down at...
- Wayne Parsons | December 18, 2008 1:10 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsIn a story about the Bush administration's midnight regulations, focusing on the efforts at pre-empting lawsuits in state courts, MSNBC with Keith Olberman (12/16, 8:32 PM EST) reported that:
in...
- Wayne Parsons | December 18, 2008 1:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn a story about the Bush administration's midnight regulations, focusing on the efforts at pre-empting lawsuits in state courts, MSNBC with Keith Olberman (12/16, 8:32 PM EST) reported that:
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- Wayne Parsons | December 18, 2008 12:47 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe American Association of Justice (AAJ) reports that the FDA has moved to protect diabetes patients by requiring more testing of diabetes drugs. In a report appearing in at least 66 media outlets,...
- Wayne Parsons | December 14, 2008 12:13 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHawaii is famous for good (great!) weather and lots of sun, but a few times a year Hawaii is hit with a storm and the rain is heavy and the visibility reduced. The systems that drain water from road...
- Wayne Parsons | December 01, 2008 12:56 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesThe Washington Post reported today that the FDA is being blasted from all sides for allowing the Melamine food poisoning crisis to spin out of control. The story identifies sources of Melamine...