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• Leaving Child in Car in Florida Could Become Felony

  Shannon Weidemann | June 14, 2007 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  It is never a good idea to leave a child unattended in car and in the summer heat it could be deadly. The temperature inside of a closed car can easily rise 10 degrees in 5 minutes. The governor is about to sign a new law that makes leaving a child in a car a felony if the child dies or suffers injury. "Their body temperature starts going up. It's a massive effect. It gets to the point,...

• Beware Phony Botox

  Robert Blanchard | June 14, 2007 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  A more hellish scenario is hard to imagine: you go in for cosmetic Botox injections and find yourself unable to speak or breathe. Eric Kaplan spent months trapped in his own body after the couple were injected with a "homemade brew" of Botox. The selling of phony and low grade Botox is not an isolated problem, there are reports of low grade Botox being for as little as 10$ for an injection size...

• Contaminated Counterfeit Colgate Toothpaste Recalled

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2007 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Tubes of toothpaste found in discount stores in four states are being recalled by the FDA because they may contain the toxic chemical diethylene glycol, better known as DEG. This chemical is sometimes illegally used as a sweetener and thickening agent. DEG is also used as a solvent in antifreeze.Colgate-Palmolive says that the tubes of toothpaste are counterfeit and that they have never...

• The Eyes Have It

  Armand Rossetti | June 14, 2007 5:52 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  AMO, Bausch & Lomb, and other solution manufacturers have been practicing market driven Science. While market driven science is not necessarily bad, if taken to its extreme, it can violate basic Voodoo principles.The eye is one of the most complex organs in the human body, and one of the few organs that are directly open to the environment. The biology and chemistry that is the eye has evolved...

• Shir Toothpaste Recalled Over Dangerous Ingredient

  Shannon Weidemann | June 13, 2007 2:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Gold City Enterprise LLC has issued a product recall for their Shir brand of toothpaste. The toothpaste was manufactured in China and has been found to contain diethylene glycol. Diethylene glycol is found in antifreeze and can cause liver and kidney damage. The recalled toothpaste brands are Shir Fresh Mint Fluoride, Shir Fresh Ice Shir Mint Fluoride and Shir Fresh Cool Shir Mint Fluoride....

• Calls for Extending PIP Law Coming In

  Evan Rosen | June 12, 2007 5:22 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL

  There have been numerous articles calling for the extention of Florida's No-Fault/PIP law. There are all kinds of rationale but mainly with nothing in it's place hospitals and patients would be stuck with no coverage if mandatory personal injury protection benefits are allowed to sunset with the expiring of the PIP law on October 1, 2007. The Florida Legislature is set for a special session to...

• Florida No-Fault: Pros and Cons

  Staff Writer | June 12, 2007 2:45 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Legislature decides October 1st, 2007 if the personal injury protection (PIP) part of the Florida no-fault auto insurance law will "sunset" after being in use for 36 years. If PIP is not renewed, drivers will no longer be required to buy the minimum $10,000 coverage for PIP and will be able to bring law suits against other drivers in auto accidents. The proponents of getting rid of PIP,...

• Two Questions that Concern AMO and Acanthamoeba Infections

  Armand Rossetti | June 12, 2007 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The cornea is the only tissue in the body that Acanthamoebae (or Acanthamoeba) can invade in individuals with healthy immune systems. Otherwise, those individuals can usually avoid Acanthamoeba infections that affect the skin, brain and lungs. This blog briefly addresses two questions: 1) Why is the cornea more susceptible to Acanthamoeba than other tissues in the body; and 2) How could a...

• AMO Says the Fault Lies With the Consumers--Not With Complete

  John Hopkins | June 12, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Well, American Medical Optics' president and CEO, James Mazzo has finally taken the same path that Bausch & Lomb has in defending ReNu with MoistureLoc. Associated Press reported Mr. Mazzo as stating that the problem with Complete® MoisturePlus is not his company's problem. Instead, he has chosen to blame the consumer and, if some Chicago researchers are to be believed, it is even in the water....

• Semis Pile-Up On S.R. 200 Killing Nassau Driver

  Eddie Farah | June 11, 2007 7:00 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It's an area we've written about before.State Road 200 in Nassau County, where logging trucks and semis pass regularly and at a high rate of speed. This time a man driving a pickup truck was killed around 3 a.m. in a wreck that involved two tractor-trailers and two logging trucks and closed S.R. 200 for close to eight hours. No word on why the unidentified pickup driver lost control of his...