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• Landmark Chemical Reform Places Burden On Industry To Prove Chemicals Are Safe

  Wayne Parsons | February 22, 2009 3:27 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Toxic Substances

  Landmark Chemical Reform Introduced in Congress Legislation Would Place Burden on Industry to Prove Chemicals Are Safe WASHINGTON – Amid rising concern over toxic chemicals in consumer...

• Honolulu Alert: Another Pedestrian Struck Down In A Crosswalk

  Wayne Parsons | February 18, 2009 2:51 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Honolulu what is happening here? Another woman was struck down in a crosswalk Tuesday morning? The epidemic of crosswalk injuries and deaths seems out of control to me. According a KHNL news...

• Judge Decertifies Class Action Suit Against Pfizer Over Epilepsy Drug

  Wayne Parsons | February 11, 2009 12:04 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The Legal Intelligencer (2/11, Elliot-Engel) reports, A month before a pharmaceutical class action was set for trial, a Philadelphia judge decertified the class of users of an epilepsy and neuralgia...

• Another Pedestrian Death In Beretania Street Crosswalk

  Wayne Parsons | February 11, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A pedestrian, Richard Tasaka, 63 years old, was fatally injured Friday night while walking in the McCully area. He was struck while in a crosswalk by a tour bus at about 7:30 p.m. Mr. Tasaka was...

• DUI Arrests Continue Eight Year Trend in Honolulu

  Wayne Parsons | February 11, 2009 7:29 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Drunk driving arrests in Honolulu increased during 2008 according to the Honolulu Police Department . The data shows nearly 400 more motorists were charged with suspicion of DUI in Honolulu in 2008...

• Italy And The Vatican Face Constitutional Crisis Over Right-to-die Of Woman In A Coma For 17 Years

  Wayne Parsons | February 10, 2009 9:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  Silvia Aloisi of the International Herald Tribune reports that Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pushing a law through parliament to force doctors to resume feeding a comatose woman in a...

• What Do You Think About Drug Companies Paying Your Doctor Money?

  Wayne Parsons | February 10, 2009 9:03 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Did you know that drug companies pay doctors money? The payments cover a range of activities such as doctor's speaking engagements, clinical trials, payments to institutions like Universities where...

• Peanut Butter Salmonella Scandal Gets Worse: Plant shipped Salmonella-tainted product before receiving re-test results.

  Wayne Parsons | February 09, 2009 4:10 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Toxic Substances

  Leading the way on the tainted peanut butter scandal, one young Atlanta personal injury attorney and a law student are rising in national recognition as food safety consumer advocates. Brandon Smith...

• New Supreme Court session seen as worth watching.

  Wayne Parsons | February 06, 2009 9:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Forbes (2/5, Fisher) reported, Cases recalling the commercial struggles of the early United States, the fate of 1.2 million acres of Hawaiian real estate and the question of whether judges should be...

• Whistleblower accuses SEC of "illiteracy" over Madoff scandal.

  Wayne Parsons | February 05, 2009 2:48 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Financial Times (2/5, Chung, et al.) reports that former money manager Harry Markopolos, who tried for nine years to expose Mr. Madoff, told a congressional hearing yesterday that staff...

• HELP Sylvia Minor Get Her Husband Back - Breast Cancer Will Not Wait.

  Wayne Parsons | February 03, 2009 1:31 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  ..... Minor’s wife Sylvia developed breast cancer during the trial, which metastasized to her brain and lungs. Last month doctors stopped all medications other than those for pain management...

• Sylvia Minor: Has Our Country Lost Its Compassion For People?

  Wayne Parsons | February 03, 2009 9:21 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Two comments have been posted on my recent post about Sylvia Minor. HELP! Sylvia Is Facing Breast Cancer Alone Without Paul - A Story of Justice Gone Wrong! Both were apparently women and they...

• Obama Promises Review Of FDA Operations

  Wayne Parsons | February 03, 2009 8:52 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  In the second installment of an interview with President Barack Obama, Matt Lauer on the NBC Today Show (2/2, 7:13 a.m. EST) noted the massive peanut butter products recall traced back to a Georgia...

• HELP! Sylvia Is Facing Breast Cancer Alone Without Paul - A Story of Justice Gone Wrong!

  Wayne Parsons | February 02, 2009 11:37 PM | 7 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Sylvia has breast cancer and she is all alone. Her husband Paul is in prison. We need to call evreryone we know and raise the volume to a level where they will let Paul rush to his wife's side and...