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• Prime-Line Child Safe Products Recalled-- Including Outlet Covers and Tub Non-Slip Pads

  Greg Webb | August 18, 2011 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in conjunction with the Prime-Line of Redlands, California, has issued a voluntary recall of 37,000 Prime-Line Child Safe products including...

• Two Children Killed by a Fresh-Water Parasite

  Mark Bello | August 17, 2011 9:39 PM | 3 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  This video is a special health warning report on a parasite known as the brain-eating amoeba which claimed its second young victim this month. Naegleria is a microscopic ameba (single-celled...

• Breast Implants Causing More Problems?

  Greg Webb | August 17, 2011 9:23 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Last January 2011, we learned more about breast implants possibly contributing to problems in women who have experienced breast cancer and have had either saline or silicone implants. At that time,...

• Meat Recalled in Arizona

  Chrissie Cole | August 17, 2011 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ

  Several meats were recently recalled by SHSCO Manufacturing, of Phoenix, because they were not inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service...

• DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits Coordinated in Texas

  Joe Saunders | August 17, 2011 7:42 PM | 2 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Last week I attended the first hearing for the DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Litigation. A large group of lawyers met with United States District Judge Ed Kinkeade in Dallas Texas last week to organize...

• How Much of Your Settlement Can Providers Take?

  Mike Myers | August 17, 2011 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  People who get injured are frequently reluctant to pursue claims. I think a lot of it has to do with the insurance industry and big businesses trying to shame deserving people by characterizing...

• Scooters' Popularity Rises, But How Safe Are They?

  Emily Mapp Brannon | August 17, 2011 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  With scooter sales up 50 percent around the country, there are more of these vehicles on the road than ever. Affordable and great on gas, scooters seem like the perfect answer to motorized...

• STATE FAIR TRAGEDY: The Show Must Go On – NOT ALWAYS!

  Jeffrey Downs | August 17, 2011 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  A large crowd of attendees waited in anticipation for the band Sugarland to take the stage Saturday night when a 60-plus mph wind gust toppled the stage onto the crowd ultimately causing the death...

• Brain Destroying Amoebae Attacking Swimmers? It's Not a Movie - It's Real

  Pierce Egerton | August 17, 2011 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  It sounds like the plot of a summer horror movie. The creature that crawls in swimmers’ noses and eats their brains. But it’s not fiction. So far three people have died this summer...

• Public Citizen 30 Year Battle -- MDL Established for Darvon and Darvocet

  Brenda Fulmer | August 17, 2011 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  After a delay of several months, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation announced this week the establishment of MDL proceedings in the Eastern District of Kentucky before District Court...