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It's not just chemicals in cigarette smoke, there is also radiation present that can cause cancer. That's the finding of a study by researchers at UCLA which also concluded that tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic but kept the information from the public. The radioactive particles are identified as polonium-210, noted the study

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New York City paid out $135 million in the past fiscal year for medical mistakes at its public hospitals. That's an increase of about 5 percent from 2010, according to a report in The New York Daily News. The payments covered 246 medical blunders, many of which were catastrophic for the patients. In one case, a Brooklyn man suffered a debilitating stroke while waiting hours to see a doctor at

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A major supplier of medical beds will not have to admit wrongdoing but will pay $41.8 million in a settlement of allegations that it submitted repeated false claims about the need for Medicare-paid equipment. The settlement ended a six-year legal battle by the federal government against Indiana-based Hill-Rom Co. Inc. The case was filed in Tennessee, where prosecutors alleged Hill-Rom from 1999-

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Doctors have a new weapon in the battle against ovarian cancer -- a dye that tracks tumors and glows under fluorescent light. The method, developed at Purdue University, illuminates cancer cells to help surgeons spot and remove smaller tumors that could otherwise be missed. The operation was one of 10 performed as part of the first phase of a clinical trial. Using the new method, surgeons were

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An investigative report in The Kansas City Star recently found that Kansas and Missouri doctors with significant histories of alleged malpractice often go undisciplined by the states' licensing boards. What's more, the newspaper noted that although the boards have access to malpractice claims information, they don't share the information with the general public. The report focused on the case of

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Residents of Libby, Montana have finally won a victory in their lengthy fight for retribution for asbestos injuries. For decades, more than 1,300 of the town's 3,000 residents have suffered illness because of asbestos pollution from a former W.R. Grace & Co. mine. Many have come down with a deadly lung disease, making what The Los Angeles Times called the "deadliest Superfund site" in the

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Medication errors continue to be a problem in the United States, with simple human error often producing grave consequences. A 77-year-old Florida woman went into a Walgreens drugstore five days before Christmas in 2009 with a prescription for potassium but was instead given a slow-release morphine by the pharmacist. Within five days she became very ill and died 16 days after she had started

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Fifteen years after the tragic event, the legal case of a girl injured during birth has ended with what was believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in Michigan history -- $130 million to family of a quadriplegic victim who needs constant care. The incident occurred in Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak when it was noticed that Markell VanSlembrouck was larger than expected at birth

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The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that caps on medical malpractice damages cannot be enforced retroactively. Defense attorneys had argued that Florida's $1 million cap on awards for medical mistakes applied to the case of a man whose heart was irrevocably damaged when he wasn't given critical medicine at Palms West Hospital. The incident occurred in 2003, three months before the legislature

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Oracle Corp. will pay the largest False Claims Act settlement ever collected by the federal General Services Administration -- $199.5 million plus interest. The payment will be made following allegations that the software manufacturer failed to meet its contractual obligation in a 1998 agreement with GSA for software licenses and technical support to government entities through the agency's

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For years, American courts have resisted awards for non-economic personal injuries such as emotional suffering, noting that fixing a value for such injuries is subjective. And a number of states have set limits on such damages. But several states have also made exceptions for a variety of cases, such as emotional injuries suffered by women who have stillbirths as a result of medical malpractice.

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Birth injuries are all-too-frequent occurrences and often blame lies with doctors or hospital staff, leading to major lawsuits. But a case in New Hampshire recently placed fault with another relatively common responsible party in more rural areas in these catastrophic cases -- midwives. Suit was brought by Sarah and Jonathan Sadowski of Concord, whose daughter suffered cerebral palsy following

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If patients in Illinois want to know more about their doctors, all they'll have to do is go on the Internet. Gov. Pat Quinn recently signed a bill called the Patients' Right to Know Act which requires that all physicians have online profiles that will include whether they have criminal records or any history of medical malpractice lawsuits. Illinois previously had such a law but it was struck

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Eileen Kelleher had elective back surgery in 2005. But problems arose after the procedure in the intensive care unit, where she suffered intra-abdominal hemorrhaging, abdominal wounds and other severe complications. She charged in a medical malpractice lawsuit that the problems were not adequately diagnosed or treated by the medical staff or the surgeon who performed the operation. The result was

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Despite numerous attempts and policies to prevent the problem, wrong-site surgeries continue to be a problem at hospitals across the United States. It happens as much as 40 times each week: A patient awakens from surgery to discover that a surgeon operated on the wrong body part, performed the wrong procedure or even mixed them up with another patient, according to a recent report in The Chicago

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A botched circumcision has resulted in a $4.6 million legal settlement -- but not against the doctor who performed the procedure. The incident occurred more than eight years ago at a Vermont maternity center when a Miltex Mogen clamp used by a doctor removed 85 percent of the top of a week-old boy's penis. The child's family claimed in a lawsuit that the clamp was defective because it afforded no

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Over a 10-year period, 710 California doctors had their privileges restricted by their hospitals or other medical entities but the number of those doctors who were disciplined by the state medical board seems alarming. The number is zero. Not one of the physicians was ever disciplined by the state regulators. Included among those doctors were 102 who were considered an "immediate threat to health

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A Maine midwife lost her second large medical malpractice verdict recently when a jury awarded $3 million for a girl who was born severely mentally retarded as a result of a botched delivery. The girl, Hannah Tilton, who is now 10 years old, is confined to a wheelchair, must use a feeding tube and is blind and unable to speak. The birth injury occurred at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

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Injuries during the birthing process appear all too common. In a recent case in Ohio, expectant mother Crystal Rinker was admitted to Mercy Medical Center in Canton on March 13, 2008 and given the drug Pitocin to induce labor. After not delivering in the evening, she was adminsitered more of the drug the next morning by delivery nurses. The drugs caused hyperstimulation in Rinker's uterus,

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Target Corporation, Chefmate 6-Speed Blenders (laceration hazard - 304,000) Pottery Barn Kids, Chloe, Sophie and Audrey soft dolls (strangulation hazard - 81,000) LG Electronics Tianjin Appliance Co., Goldstar or Comfort-Aire dehumidifiers (serious fire and burn hazard -

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School teacher Victoria Lynn Brown Harmon checked into a North Carolina hospital for what she thought would be a routine hysterectomy. She was sent home the following day, but she had pain and returned to Lake Norman Regional Medical Center. Doctors attempted to find the problem and they did -- Harmon's bowel had been perforated during the surgery. But by the time doctors discovered what went

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A doctor at the University of California Davis was out for an early morning jog when she was struck by a car and badly hurt while in a crosswalk on Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento. Cathy Liu filed suit against the city, claiming the visibility along the roadway's "S" curve was poor and that the city was negligent in warning drivers of the approaching crosswalk where she was struck. A jury

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An Indiana doctor already in trouble with the law was found to have committed medical malpractice -- and intentionally so. A jury found that Dr. Mark Weinberger failed to diagnose a patient's lung cancer and instead treated her for other ailments in a money-making scheme. The Lake County jurors recently awarded $13 million to the estate of Phyllis Barnes, who died in 2004, just days before the

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A much-watched construction lawsuit case has reportedly been settled by Caterpillar Inc. According to news reports, the world's largest maker of bulldozers agreed to pay more than $9 million to settle claims by worker Alfonso Lopez that he was left a paraplegic when a defective Caterpillar earth mover suddenly began bouncing on a construction site. Lopez suffered severe spinal injuries. A jury in

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Mark Holmes didn't win a huge award in his whistleblower case but, as the Naples (Florida) News put it, "it sure beats cleaning toilets." Holmes, a Collier County EMS Medflight pilot, was awarded $70,000 by a federal jury on his claim that he was demoted to latrine and other menial duties after complaining to county officials about workplace safety, maintenance and management in 2007. He alleged

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A Virginia man who claimed that Botox injections to treat hand tremors and writer's cramp left him brain damaged and disabled has been awarded a $212 million verdict. The jury ruling came recently against Allergan Inc. after a trial that lasted nearly two weeks and the jury finding in favor of 67-year-old Douglas Ray Jr., who requires around-the-clock care. He was awarded $12 million in

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Target Corporation, Step Stools with Storage (fall hazard - 206,000) Build-A-Bear Workshop, Love.Hugs.Peace lapel pins (high levels of lead - 26, 5000) NexTorch, Inc., NexTorch NT123A flashlight batteries (fire and burn hazard - 16,000) Cloud Engines Inc. Pogoplug Video file

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An Illinois appeals court has upheld a verdict of $23.75 million for two men who were killed and a third who was severely injured in 10-vehicle traffic accident. The verdict against three defendants was originally handed down in Will County Circuit Court in the pileup on April 1, 2004 that killed Joseph G. Sperl and Thomas Sanders and injured William Taluc. According to authorities, a northbound

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Fisher-Price, Little People Builders' Load 'n Go Wagons (laceration hazard - 208,000) Homelite Consumer Products Inc., Homelite surface cleaner attachments (laceration hazard - 40,000) Prime-Line, of Redlands, safety latches and outlet covers (electric shock hazard - 37,000)

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A jury awarded what was reported as the largest single medical malpractice verdict in Connecticut history with a $58 million decision for a Norwalk child and his parents in a birth injury case. The case took nearly six and a half years to get to a verdict against a Stamford surgeon and his practice. The parents, Cathy and Dominic D’Attilo, told the news media that the verdict came as a huge

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Hamilton Beach Brands Inc., Hamilton Beach classic chrome 2-slice toasters (fire hazard - 300,000)Mizuno USA Inc., Mizuno Supreme Series and Ballpark Pro baseball and softball gloves (mold hazard - 131,000)Dollar Tree Stores Inc., glass votive candle holders (fire and

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The path for whistleblowers to help the government expose fraud and misconduct continues to widen. A recent action by federal regulators makes tipsters eligible to receive rewards if they give the Securities and Exchange Commission information leading to more than $1 million in penalties against offenders. The SEC would pay whistleblowers up to 30 percent of recovered funds. The commission was

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Petzl America Inc., Scorpio and Absorbica Shock Absorbing Lanyards (fall hazard - 375,000)Playsets, Adventure Playsets Wooden Swing Sets (fall hazard - 240,000)Changzhou Globe Tool Group Co. Ltd., Task Force 5-ton electric log splitters (laceration or amputation injury

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In a settlement, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay almost $41 million over allegations the manufacturer sold faulty drugs made at a former factory in Puerto Rico. The sum will be shared by 37 states and the District of Columbia. This case follows another in which the company agreed to pay $750 million as part of a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice last year. Government attorneys

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A lawsuit claiming a defect in Chevy Impalas is just the beginning of the allegations against General Motors. The action was filed in Detroit recently against the automaker claiming that 2007 and 2008 Impalas have defective spindle rods, which can cause wheels to misalign, increasing wear and the chance of a blowout. But perhaps worse, the suit claims that GM was selective in how -- and for whom

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Target, Circo Child booster seats (fall hazard - 375,000) The TJX Companies, Inc Emma's Garden Polka-Dot girls' dresses (choking hazard – 21,000) Lots, of Columbus, metal futon bunk beds (head and neck entrapment hazard - 30,000)MTD Products Inc, TrimmerPlus edger

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A shove by a sheriff's deputy is going to cost King County in the state of Washington $10 million. The incident occurred in May 2009 when Christopher Sean Harris was pushed into a concrete wall, suffering a catastrophic brain injury. Harris now requires around-the-clock care. His wife filed suit against the county alleging that Deputy Matthew Paul acted negligently and used excessive force. A $10

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Venmar Ventilation Inc., air exchangers (fire hazard - 1,400)Quality Bicycle Products., carrier racks for mounting over front bicycle wheels (fall hazard – 100)Husqvarna Professional Products Inc., Husqvarna yard tractors with TuffTorq K46LD transaxle (risk of reduced or

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A jury in Cambria County, PA, awarded a man $633,525 in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which he claimed that negligent care resulted in his leg being amputated above the knee. The lawsuit was filed by Ronald Duerring, who is in his 60s and has an extensive medical history including vascular disease. Duerring was admitted to one hospital, then another in late 2006 for severe pain in his right

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Meijer Inc., Katie Brown 12-piece tea light candle sets (serious burn and fire hazard - 7,600)Lan Enterprises, LLC, strollers. (Entrapment and strangulation hazard - 2,300)STIHL Inc., Gas powered STIHL trimmers, brushcutters, KombiMotors, hedge trimmers, edgers, clearing

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The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton area is No. 2 in the nation -- for smoking. The dubious ranking was revealed in an article in the national website The Daily Beast. The rankings were based on statistics including the number of smokers per capita and the average number of cigarettes smoked per day. About 23 percent of residents in the northeastern Pennsylvania region smoked an average of 17

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Maclaren USA, Inc., Maclaren strollers (fingertip amputation and laceration - 1 million)UJ Trading, Knight Hawk Toy Helicopters (fire hazard - 18,500)Meijer Inc., pairs of Bumble Bee and Lady Bug infant slipper socks (choking hazard - 17,400)Telstar Products d/b/a Sprint

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A California elevator mechanic was forced to carry heavy tools and parts on a jobsite that had scaffolding built lower than clearances required under state law. Over two months in 2007 on the hotel construction job, David Travis, who is six-foot-one, bumped his head several times on cross-bracing. The repeated incidents added up to a debilitating injury. Travis suffered herniated discs that

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There was nothing amusing about the Yo-Yo. A breakdown of the carnival ride, which twirls riders on swing-like seats suspended from chains on a hydraulic arm, resulted in a number of serious injuries. Twenty-three people were hurt when the ride collapsed in May 2008 at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp, Calif. A similar accident had occurred two years earlier at a

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When Jeffrey W. Davis complained to his doctor of rectal bleeding and gastric problems, the physician ordered an upper G.I. exam but not a colonoscopy. Davis, then 35 and living in Terre Haute, Indiana, later moved to Arizona and went to see another doctor, who did order the proper tests and discovered that Davis had cancer. But by the time of the second diagnosis, it was too late. Davis' cancer

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A medical technology company has agreed to pay the federal government $16 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit. Minnesota-based St. Jude Medical Inc. had allegedly paid kickbacks to doctors who enrolled patients in post-market studies that were really a way to induce the doctors to use the company's products. It was charged that the company paid participating physicians as much as $2,000

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A Seattle attorney who was in a clearly marked crosswalk when a Metro bus struck her agreed to a $4.5 million settlement from the county government. The agreement with Ree Ah Bloedow, 45, was not reached until two weeks before the case was to go to trial. The incident occurred in January 2008 when Bloedow was crossing the street and was clipped by the mirror of the bus, causing brain damaged and

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:WRK Enterprises dba Edge Dive Gear, Sea Elite Systems Buoyancy Control Devices (BCD) (drowning hazard - 405)El Gringo Imports Girl's hooded sweaters with drawstrings (strangulation or entrapment hazard – 300) GMA Accessories Inc., beaded curtains (risk of entanglement and/or

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Nearly 18 years after the incident, a jury in Warren County, N.Y., awarded $3 million to a girl for injuries she suffered during childbirth. The jury found that Marlayna Kineke's cerebral palsy and other health problems were the fault of an obstetrician-gynecologist who delayed for several hours a Cesarean section needed by her mother. Testimony in the trial showed that the doctor was summoned to

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Active Leisure Inc., Active Leisure folding canopy tents (fire hazard - 19,000)Fashionviews Inc., garments of P.Jamas children’s sleepwear (burn injury - 4,000)Cooper Tools LLC of Apex, N.C Soldering Irons (burn hazard - 69,000) Williams-Sonoma Inc., hot chocolate pots (burn

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Many people carefully study safety ratings before buying a new car, but they don't use the same standards when renting a vehicle. An analysis by USA Today found that while many of the major auto rental companies offer vehicles that are highly rated for protection in head-on collisions, many are not rated nearly as safe in accidents involving rear or side impacts or rollover accidents. The

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The amount of the settlement was supposed to have been kept secret. But the monetary sum was revealed in the case of a California Highway Patrol officer killed when his Toyota sped out of control and crashed. The amount to be paid by the Japanese automaker: $10 million. The settlement was revealed by an attorney for the San Diego Lexus dealership that loaned the vehicle to the officer. A court

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Scotch Corporation, Instant Power Toilet Bowl Restorer bottles (risk of chemical burns - 74,760)Undersea Systems International Inc. dba Ocean Technology Systems, Guardian full-face diving masks (drowning hazard - 1,780)Gerber Legendary Blades, Gerber Gator Combo Axes (

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It seems as though everything is going 3-D -- movies, television, video games. Now there is a 3-D device that could help save lives. It's X-ray mammography that provides three-dimensional images for breast cancer screening and diagnosis. The device, approved recently by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could "significantly enhance existing diagnosis and treatment approaches." That according

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Verizon Communications Inc. has written a big check to the federal government -- $93.5 million. That sum was announced as a settlement to resolve allegations which arose in a whistleblower lawsuit against the nation's second-largest phone company. The qui tam suit alleged that Verizon overcharged the U.S. General Services Administration by submitting false claims for reimbursement of property

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Lasko Products Inc., portable electric heaters (fire hazard - 107,500)PD Sixty Distributor Inc., Portable space heaters (fire hazard - 3,000)Tech 4 Kids Inc., OUTER EDGE snow bikes (fall hazard - 2,100)Tyco Safety Products Westminster Simplex fire alarm control panels (alert

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The majority of doctors sanctioned by their own hospitals escape any discipline by state medical boards. So noted a recent report by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, which examined data over a 20-year period (1990-2009). It found that 10,672 physicians were listed in the National Practitioner data Bank as having had their clinical privileges restricted or revoked by their hospitals but

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products: Sheng Group, Butterfly Push Toys (choking and aspiration hazards - 1,440)Steelcase Inc., Cachet swivel chairs (fall hazard - 165,000)The Land of Nod, Rosebud drop-side cribs (suffocation and strangulation hazards - 300)Sassy Inc., Refreshing Rings infant teethers/rattles (

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Nearly 18 years after his death, an award for more than $3 million was handed down for the estate of a Florida man who died of cancer caused by smoking cigarettes his entire adult life. John Huish was 64 years old when he died. He had started smoking cigarettes when he was just a teenager -- some 20 years before cigarette packages contained health warning labels. The suit split damages between RJ

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Eco-Story, LED Lamps (fire hazard - 42,000) Vacless Systems Inc., Pool Safety Vacuum Release Systems (entrapment hazard - 1,600) The Metal Ware Corporation, NESCO American Harvest Gardenmaster food dehydrators (smoke and fire hazard - 4,800) IKEA Home Furnishings, RUND clear

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Wrong-site and wrong surgeries continue to be a rare yet persistent form of medical error at hospitals across the United States. A recent case involved a kidney transplant patient getting the wrong kidney. The patient was not injured because, luckily, the kidney was a fairly close match, but the mistake could have been fatal. It led officials at the University of Southern California's University

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:White-Rodgers, programmable thermostats (fire hazard - 180,000)Kid O Products, Baby rattles (choking hazard - 1,500) Calisson, Inc Cool-it Soothers by Vulli. (ingestion hazard - 7,000) Discovery Toys LLC, Toddler Talk Toy Mobile Phones (choking hazard - 2,900)Prairie

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A 41-year-old Colorado man who sought treatment for an abscessed tooth ended up dying after suffering a brain injury during oral surgery. The incident happened in 2008 when Simon Medrano went to the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine complaining of pain and inflammation from his tooth. A doctor at the school tried to extract the tooth but encountered difficulty and transferred

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A horrible accident appears to have triggered a safety proposal that could afford future protection to pedestrians. It happened in 2002 when a father backing up his car in the family driveway struck and killed his two-year-old son. Now, according a report in Newsday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is proposing that starting in 2014 all new cars be required to have rearview

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It took more than a dozen years, but a former Texas deputy constable has finally gotten justice. Armando Gonzales, now 71 years old, was fired from his job after he reported alleged bribery involving his boss and testified against him before a grand jury. After losing his job, Gonzales filed a whistleblower lawsuit. The case dragged on for many years, costing Dallas County an estimated $1.2

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An Illinois hospital has agreed to a $6.5 million settlement in the case of a baby girl injured during childbirth. The medical error occurred in 2000 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where Denice Cisneros was in labor with her first child. A family practitioner and nurse failed to diagnose cephalic pelvic disproportion, a condition in which a baby's head is too large to fit

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A new national study has found that nearly 10,000 infants and toddlers annually -- or 26 each day -- suffer injuries in crib and playpen accidents. Most of the injuries resulted from falls after children tried to climb out of cribs and playpens, but many also occurred because of dangerous or defective products. A number of injuries were recorded involving drop-side cribs with side rails that move

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Two Nebraska college wrestlers were in peak physical condition. Now both have severe long-term physical ailments because of a crash of a state vehicle driven by an assistant coach for their Chadron State College wrestling team. The accident occurred in 2008 when the team was on its way to the airport for a tournament in Las Vegas. Maxwell Baker, of California, suffered a traumatic head injury

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Stories of medication errors are common, but one account from Colorado is making headlines. The error occurred in a Safeway drugstore when a pharmacist gave the wrong drug to a pregnant woman. The mixup, according to a news account, occurred because two women had similar names – Mareena Silva and Maria Silva. Instead of getting antibiotics, Mareena Silva was given methotrexate, a potent drug used

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Summer Infant Inc., video baby monitors with electrical cords (strangulation hazard - 1.7 million) Christmas Tree Shops Inc., oven rack guards (fire hazard – 430) GEA Products L.P., GE and Professional Series Brand Dehumidifiers (fire hazard -198,000) The Vermont Teddy Bear

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A Virginia fireworks show ended in disaster after a high-powered "salute" rocket careened into a crowd in 2007. Kathryn Hollis was one of those who suffered severe burns to her head, face, arms and torso and also penetrating shrapnel wounds when a shell exploded next to her. She filed a civil suit against Schaefer Pyrotechnics, the Pennsylvania company that worked the show and several others that

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Michelle Koenig, a 20-year-old Illinois woman, went to the hospital with a skin ailment. An emergency room doctor at Provena St. Mary's Hospital told her that she had a rash and sent her home. Two days later she was dead. The rash, it turned out, was chicken pox, a serious case of the virus that spread to her liver and killed Koenig. A jury recently returned a $1.5 million verdict in the medical

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Some lawmakers in Washington are using California as an example of the supposed benefits of capping damages for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases at $250,000. But a recent case in that same state shows the pitfalls of such a limit. The case involved 17-year-old Olivia Cull, who lapsed into a coma and died after a routine catheterization procedure at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA

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Elan Corporation PLC has agreed to pay more than $203 million for the alleged illegal promotion of its epilepsy drug Zonegran. The U.S. Justice Department said the Irish drug manufacturer agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for allegedly promoting Zonegran for improper uses, including mood stabilization, migraine headaches, eating disorders and weight loss. The U.S. Food and Drug

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:The Sterno Group LLC, Sterno Portable Butane Stoves (fire and burn hazard 37,500)Splendid Girls' Hooded Zip Jackets and Vest Sets. (strangulation or entrapment hazard – 900) American Honda Motor Co. Inc., Honda snowblowers (fire hazard - 18,500) Salsa Cycles, Salsa Handlebar

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Cases of cancer misdiagnoses are all too common, with the presence of the disease either missed or diagnosed too late. But the experience of a Long Island, NY, woman ran counter to the usual case of misdiagnosis. The long ordeal of Romana Jimenez, an 85-year-old grandmother, began in late 2008 when she entered Brookhaven Memorial Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. She was diagnosed with

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In the late 1950s, a tobacco company sent representatives into a Boston housing project giving away free cigarettes to children. Some of those children got hooked for life or, in the case of Marie Evans, for death. Mrs. Evans had her first puff at age 13 and smoked after that until she was 54, when she died of lung cancer. Recently, a Boston jury found that the cigarette company, the Lorillard

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:STIHL Incorporated, STIHL FS 310 Bike Handle Trimmers/Brushcutters (injury hazard - 1,000) Oriental Trading Company, Inc. excessive Ceramic piggy and lion banks (high levels of lead - 220,000) Stores Inc., Silver Tree Tealight Candle Holders (burn hazard - 7,600 (in the

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It was almost seven years ago that a federal employee alleged that Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas had cheated the government out of millions of dollars in royalties. Bobby Maxwell, a government auditor claimed that the company was vastly underpaying royalties on 57 oil leases it held with the government. Recently, a federal judge ordered Kerr-McGee to pay nearly $23 million in penalties, or treble

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Target Corp., Circo Children's Space Camp Combo Pack (fire hazard - 1,500) General Wax & Candle Company, Silver Metallic Pillar Candles (fire hazard - 12,000) QVC, Enamel-coated 8-inch cast iron skillets (7,500 - burn hazard) American Eagle Outfitters Inc., Toddler Girl

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Icy steps will cost a Johnston, PA, club a large sum of money. A jury in Cambria County has awarded $1 million in a slip-and-fall case in which an Altoona workman was injured when he fell down the ice-covered steps of the PNA club. Kurtis W. Carper was walking down the steps to clean the beer taps at the club while holding a toolbox in one hand. He fell even though he was holding a railing with

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Victory Land Group Inc., Drop-Side Cribs (strangulation and/or suffocation hazards - 34,000) GE Appliances & Lighting, GE Profile and GE Monogram Dishwashers (fire hazard - 174,000) Meijer, Infant Shoes (choking hazard - 2,300) Primal Vantage Co., Inc., Ameristep Plastic

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It took eight years and $600,000 in expenses, but a legal team finally won a court-approved $12 million settlement for an Illinois woman who was left severely brain-damaged during labor. The medical malpractice occurred at Provena Covenant Medical Center while Tim Ravanh was in labor with her son her son who was later born by cesarean section. Ravanh was given an epidural injection that sent her

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A Michigan City, Indiana, public sanitary worker was fired from his government job after he reported worker safety violations and also told authorities about unreported cases of overflowing sewers. So Ron Meer went to the state attorney general and the Indiana labor commissioner to complain about his firing. They in turn sued the city for violating the state whistleblower law. Said Indiana

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A study estimates that between 40,000 and 80,000 people are killed each year due to diagnostic errors by doctors. The study, which included analysis of autopsies over the past four decades, found that such errors in diagnosing patient symptoms was also the leading cause of medical malpractice lawsuits, accounting for as many as 40 percent of all cases. In a news report, Peter Pronovost, a

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Lowe's Home Centers, Inc., Roman shades and about 5 million roll-up blinds (strangulation risk - 6 million) General Wax & Candle Company, Silver and Gold Metallic Taper Candle (fire hazard - 33,000) Meijer, Touch Point Oscillating Ceramic Heaters (fire hazard - 6,700) MTD

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A Philadelphia jury has handed down a verdict for a 72-year-old woman who died in the hospital after doctors failed to treat an internal bleed until it was too late. The recent award was for nearly $5.2 million for Sandra Sacks, who suffered retroperitoneal bleeding following an elective cardiac catheterization performed in October 2007. Sacks had complained of abdominal and groin pain after

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A slip of a pen resulted in a surgeon removing the wrong kidney during an operation on a young boy in Ireland. The surgery proceeded on the wrong kidney despite concern voiced before the procedure by the child's parents. The doctor, Martin Corbally from Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Dublin, admitted his error after the wrong-site surgery was performed and apologized to the family. He said he

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc., Bassettbaby drop-side cribs with external plastic hardware (entrapment hazard - 90,000) J & H International, Carafes (burn hazard - 36,000) L.L.Bean, Folding Camp Rockers (fall hazard - 2,300) Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Bosch hammer

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The City of Roseville, CA, and the bus company it contracts will have to pay a heavy price for a tragedy that befell a man who had already suffered one bad accident. It happened to 38-year-old Thomas Avery, of Del Paso Heights, who has been a quadriplegic since a 1989 traffic accident. Nine years later, Avery was in Roseville and powered his motorized wheelchair onto the lift of a Roseville

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An Army medical center based in Hawaii has agreed to an $11 million settlement in a birth injury case involving several medical errors and serious brain injury to a newborn. The incident occurred in 2005 at Tripler Army Medical Center, the largest military hospital in the Pacific which serves tens of thousands of service members, veterans and their families. In the birth injury case, Kayla McCraw

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Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:Haier America Trading LLC, Chest Freezers (fire hazard - 67,500) Hunter Safety System of Carabiners (fall hazard - 16,000) Britax Child Safety Inc., Chaperone Infant car seats (choking hazard - 23,000) Rollerblade USA, pairs Spark, Spitfire Inline Skates (fall hazard -

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An accountant is expected to reap a large reward for blowing the whistle on a company that provided prescription drugs for thousands of Medicaid patients in Michigan nursing homes and other assisted-living facilities. According to authorities in that state, Specialized Pharmacy Services, owned by Omnicare, was charging patients covered by Medicaid more than those who had private health insurance

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