Posts tagged prevention

• The Hawaii Pedestrian Crosswalk Safety Chronicles: Innovative Solution for Crosswalk Safety

  Wayne Parsons | May 06, 2009 2:39 PM | 7 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A primary mission of these articles is to promote safety and make Hawaii a safer place for all of us. Everyone in the Islands is concerned about crosswalk deaths and pedestrian injuries. I have come...

• Hawaii Swine Flu Update - Tamiflu Stockpiles Vary Widely Throughout World

  Wayne Parsons | May 10, 2009 3:14 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Hawaii has a few Swine Flu cases, most recently a student up at UH. Our medical community seems well organized and prepared. The entire country seems to be on top of this situation. Embedded video...

• Senate passes Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act giving FDA regulatory control of tobacco industry.

  Wayne Parsons | June 12, 2009 1:42 PM | 13 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I can hear Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and Chaney moaning and whining already about the American people getting control of the runaway train that their FDA has turned loose on the public for the...

• Crosswalk Automobile Pedestrian Collision On Queen Emma Street Seriously Injures Two Girls

  Wayne Parsons | May 28, 2009 4:51 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to a story by the Honolulu Advertiser 2 intermediate school girls were struck by a car as they crossed Queen Emma Street at Vineyard Street in a crosswalk. The Advertiser reports...

• Fort Weaver Road Hit-And-Run Claims Another Life

  Wayne Parsons | August 22, 2009 9:18 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you know anything about an older light colored van that hit and killed a 68-year old woman on Fort Weaver Road on Thursday please call the police. The woman was fatally injured when she was...

• Why don't more women use Tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer?

  Wayne Parsons | July 15, 2010 9:38 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In CA, a cancer journal for doctors, a recent article documents that women are not taking a drug known to prevent breast cancer. In Tamoxifen Infrequently Used by Women at Risk for Breast Cancer,...

• What Are the Best Ways to Improve Safety and Health in Hawaii?

  Wayne Parsons | March 18, 2010 12:48 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  The main goal of Injury Board, and this Blog, is to promote health and safety. That may seem odd to some readers since I represent people who have suffered injuries or been discriminated against or...

• When Will Big Tobacco Stop Going After Kids - FDA Bans Flavored Cigarettes

  Wayne Parsons | September 23, 2009 2:34 PM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  USA Today (9/23, Rubin) reports that on Tuesday, the FDA banned the sale of candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes. The move was authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control...

• Hawaii Crosswalk Safety Chronicles: On a Day of Tragedy, What is the law?

  Wayne Parsons | May 28, 2009 7:39 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two teenage students were struck in a crosswalk on Queen Emma Street in Honolulu today. he driver said that she saw the girls. No one said this, but I will - the girls also should be able to see a...

• Swine Flu Information for Hawaii Residents

  Wayne Parsons | May 06, 2009 3:25 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Today we learned that our vulnerable Island chain has now been visited with H1N1, the new Swine Flu virus. We have three confirmed cases that have been heavily reported in the press. National...