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• Pain Pump Manufacturers Trials and Tribulations for 2010 and 2011

  Brenda Fulmer | October 01, 2009 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Jurors from around the country will be let in on a dirty little secret in 2010. In state and federal courtrooms across the country next year, jurors will hear testimony about how the...

• Why Link Medical Malpractice Reform With Healthcare Reform? Does not make sense.

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | October 01, 2009 9:20 AM | 5 CommentsMiami, FL

  For the past few months, the one public policy that has been on every American's mind is health care reform. It seems like everyone has their own, unique opinion on the state of our country's health...

• Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care

  Don Greiwe | October 01, 2009 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A group of doctors from around the world have came together to take a hard look at the relationship between nursing homes and profiteering, and the results reaffirm what many of us would have...

• Two Die After Collision With School Bus

  Eddie Farah | September 30, 2009 10:44 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Children at a Clay County elementary school are trying to cope with the deaths of two people who were in a car that collided with a school bus. The Florida Highway Patrol reports the car ran into...

• Central Florida Teen Injured In Freak Accident

  Chrissie Cole | September 30, 2009 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  A Central Florida teen has been in a drug induced coma for several days following a freak accident over the weekend. Bree McMahon, 17, a senior at Freedom High School, was at a car wash...

• Epidemic of Fraudulent Marketing -- Eager to Believe

  Alyssa DiEdwardo | September 30, 2009 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  On the heels of the largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in history why is it that so many of us are still so eager to blindly believe ads and product promises? We believe because we want the...

• Dangers of Distracted Driving

  Ed Normand | September 30, 2009 10:24 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  With the advent of safer cars, airbags and mandatory seatbelts one would think that we are progressing toward safer roadways. Technology, however, is bringing about a new and very real danger:...

• Medtronic...Beleaguered Consumers and Yet Another Recall

  Brenda Fulmer | September 29, 2009 3:31 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  On August 27, 2009, the Food & Drug Administration issued yet another recall for a device manufactured by Minnesota-based Medtronic (who also has experienced recalls of its pain medication...

• Bad Drug Reactions in Kids

  Jerry H. Trachtman | September 29, 2009 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsMelbourne, FL

  According to a study released in the October issue of Pediatrics, national statistics based on visits to clinics and ER's between 1995 and 2005 indicate that more than half a million children a year...

• Tobacco Makers Sue U.S. over Free Speech

  C. Todd Alley | September 29, 2009 8:37 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  A group of tobacco manufacturers, including RJ Reynolds, Commonwealth Brands, Inc., National Tobacco Co., and Lorillard, sued the U.S. Government in August claiming the new federal law passed in...