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• Healthcare - A Start

  John Inserra | May 29, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Finally a start to the curbing of health care costs. First, the consumer must know the cost of the service, so he or she can make a judgment about that service. Will this curtail costs? Who knows! I believe it is a least a step in the right direction.California's largest private physician practice has become one of the first doctor groups in the nation, and almost certainly the largest, to...

• Avandia

  John Inserra | May 22, 2007 10:04 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, a study shows that rosiglitazone, sold as Avandia by GlaxoSmithKline was associated with a significant increase in the risk of myocardial infarction and with an increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular causes that had borderline significance. The study concludes: patients and providers should consider the potential for serious...

• Nursing Home Abuse Settlement Reported

  John Inserra | May 15, 2007 3:33 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Life Care Center of Elkhorn has settled a lawsuit that accused it of neglecting its patients and allowing an elderly woman to lie in her own feces for hours at a time after back surgery.A patient developed an infection in her wound during her stay at the Life Care Center of Elkhorn that required surgery to reopen her incision and drain the infection and fecal matter in the wound.Terms of the...

• Car Seat Recall

  John Inserra | May 11, 2007 8:33 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling 450,000 Evenflo Embrace infant car seat carriers.The car seats were sold nationwide from December 2004 through last September and are being recalled because the handle malfunctions, releasing unexpectedly.The affected car seats and carriers have model numbers beginning with 317, 320, 397, 398, 540, 548, 549, 550, 556, 597, 598 or 599.