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• FDA finalizes rules allowing patients greater access to experimental drugs.

  Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 1:47 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA's website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. The FDA said the rules let...

• Construction Worker Jobs Are the Most Dangerous In Terms of Injury and Death

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2009 3:17 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  What is the most dangerous job? The construction industry ranks first as the most hazardous occupation in the United States. I have written about construction site personal injury before in the...

• Whiplash and Headaches - The Most Common Personal Injury In Automobile Accident Cases in Hawaii

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2009 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In the 1950s the medical profession did not recognize whiplash as a medical condition. It was through attorneys seeking explanations of injuries from treating doctors that stimulated medical insight...

• Big Island Man Dies Thursday After Single Car Crash in Pahoa on August 5, 2009

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2009 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A sad report on Friday in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on-line edition notes the 14th traffic fatality this year on the Big Island: a 58 year old man from Pahoa who was a passenger in the car that...

• GIFT15 - Is A Cure For Multiple Sclerosis On The Horizon?

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2009 9:49 PM | 8 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  McGill University researchers in Canada have announced that _ in mice _ they may have found a way to treat and cure multiple sclerosis (MS). In animals they can reverse the devastating disease with...

• New legislation could help homeowners sue Chinese drywall manufacturers.

  Wayne Parsons | August 12, 2009 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  We have a problem in the U.S. with holding foreign manufacturers responsible for harm their defective products cause here in the States. One example was the salmonella problem from Mexican tomatoes...

• Hawaii Consumer Alert: GM and Isuzu Truck Recall Raises Concerns Because Bailout Eliminates Product Liability Claims For Injury or death

  Wayne Parsons | August 06, 2009 5:41 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In a report in U.S. News & World Report a pickup truck recall is initiated by automakers. A brake light defect in General Motors trucks could lead to an an accident. GM is recalling about...

• Merck, Schering agree to $41.5 million settlement of Vytorin, Zetia suits.

  Wayne Parsons | August 06, 2009 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The New York Times (8/6, B4, Shih) reports, Merck and Schering-Plough agreed Wednesday to pay $41.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits that accused them of withholding unfavorable results of a...

• Way to Go Bill: Imprisoned Korean Journalists Are Coming Home!!!!

  Wayne Parsons | August 04, 2009 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Wasn't it just a month ago that we were all talking in Hawaii and death and injury from a missile attack from North Korea on Honolulu? Well there was a serious mood swing on that paranoia today. And...

• Banning Texting, Twitter and Cell Phone Use in Cars Isn't Enough __ Increasing Speed Limits Spikes Automobile Accident Death and Injury Toll According to New Study

  Wayne Parsons | August 04, 2009 3:04 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Ever here the saying that speed kills. Well its true according to a recent study of deaths on U.S. highways. But does this apply in Hawaii? Are Honolulu and Oahu roads in need of new lower speed...