- Sandy Grinnell | October 15, 2009 3:46 PM | Orlando, FL
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Miscellaneous
Who knew? In under-developed countries, 1.5 million children die each year diarrheal-related illnesses each year. The focus of this year's Global Handwashing Day is to improve the hygiene and...
- Sandy Grinnell | September 18, 2009 6:34 AM | Orlando, FL
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Automobile Accidents
While the total number of Florida highway deaths over the long Labor Day week-end are not yet available, the number of car crash related deaths investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol was seven...
- Eddie Farah | September 11, 2009 10:20 PM | Jacksonville, FL
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Automobile Accidents
The friends and family of Miranda Zant will be celebrating her 17th birthday this Saturday, but Miranda won't be there.
She was killed last July when the pickup truck in which she was riding...
- Sandy Grinnell | June 16, 2009 11:57 AM | Orlando, FL
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Miscellaneous
The Florida Department of Health has reported the first death in Florida attributed to the swine flu. A nine-year old boy from South Florida was the first of the 417 reported cases to have succumbed...
- Armand Rossetti | December 09, 2008 1:08 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Those who are familiar with pain pump cases know that bupivacaine is chondrotoxic. Joint cartilage is composed of cells called chondrocytes, and most of the anesthetic “caines” cause...
- Armand Rossetti | December 02, 2008 10:42 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Both short and long term treatment with fluoroquinolone antibiotics may cause tendon matrix alteration that can lead to tendinopathy with subsequent rupture. Tendinopathy is newer all-inclusive...
- Armand Rossetti | November 14, 2008 2:30 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Sometimes searching for information has to occur outside the box. For example, who would have thought that a scholarly paper about eye drops would contain information central to understanding how...
- Armand Rossetti | November 13, 2008 5:08 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Please watch the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Research Foundation’s video entitled A Prescription for Disaster.
Two drugs, Cipro and Levaquin, belonging to the fluoroquinolone (Floxacin)...
- Brian W. Smith | October 02, 2008 9:18 AM | Tallahassee, FL
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Miscellaneous
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that all children between 6 months and 18 years of age get a flu shot, unless they have a serious egg allergy. When it comes to...
- Sandy Grinnell | September 25, 2008 9:55 AM | Orlando, FL
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Miscellaneous
In a reversal of previous years recommendations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is asking parents to immunize all children between the ages of 6 months to 18 years. Previously...