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• LASIK SURGERY WARNINGS INSUFFICIENT

  Paul Jacquart | May 02, 2008 8:26 AM | 1 CommentMilwaukee, WI

  A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended bolstering the warnings of the dangers of Lasik eye surgery, reports the Associated Press. The article explains that although Lasik...

• Motorist Killed By Flying Truck Tire Raises Uninsured Motorist Coverage Questions

  David Lowe | November 09, 2007 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  In a bizarre tragedy Thursday evening, a Mequon, Wisconsin motorist was killed when a truck tire came loose from a truck traveling southbound on I-43, bounced over a retaining wall, and struck the windshield of the man's 2007 BMW. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner announced today that the victim, Krishma Chintamaneni, 55, died at the scene. The driver of the semi from which the tire came...

• Smoke Detector Could Have Saved Lives Says Lawsuit

  Paul Jacquart | August 22, 2007 1:14 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The Baltimore Sun reports that a man who lost his pregnant fiancee, son and fiancee's niece in an apartment building fire is suing the landlord for failure to install smoke detectors. The lawsuit claims damages totalling 53 million dollars. The lawsuit alleges that only three of the twelve apartments in the building had smoke detectors. The lawyer for the claimant has said that he hoped the...

• Wisconsin Leads The Nation In Drunk Drivers

  David Lowe | April 23, 2008 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A national study reveals that Wisconsin leads the nation in drunk driving, based on admitted behavior in surveys conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency...

• Minnesota Hospital Admits Wrong Organ Removed

  Jenny Albano | March 19, 2008 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Methodist Hospital in Minnesota acknowledged that their medical staff accidentally removed the wrong organ from a patient. Dr. Samuel Carlson, chief medical officer for Park Nicollet Health Services, stated that one of the surgeons removed a patient's healthy kidney and left the cancerous one in place.The surgery was performed last Tuesday, but it wasn't until the next day that a pathologist...

• FDA Raises Number of Potential Heparin Related Deaths to 21

  David Lowe | February 29, 2008 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Today's New York Times reports that as many as 21 deaths may be linked to the drug heparin, and the number of reported adverse reactions (mostly decreased or low blood pressure and fast heart rate) has risen to 448, according to the FDA. Baxter International, whose heparin seems to be involved with the problems, announced that it was expanding a recall to include most of its heparin products,...

• Can Eating Microwave Popcorn Lead to Lung Disease?

  David Lowe | September 04, 2007 11:22 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  I have previously blogged about the lung disease danger to workers in the microwave popcorn manufacturing industry exposed to diacetyl, a food flavoring. Now there is a story reporting that eating microwave popcorn may potentially cause obstructive lung disease. Because Wisconsin is one of a handful of states where microwave popcorn is manufactured, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel...

• Lawsuits Say Laxative Causes Kidney Damage

  Paul Jacquart | August 20, 2007 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  More than 50 lawsuits have been filed across the country claiming that Fleet Phospho-soda, a laxative made by C.B. Fleet Co. Inc. of Lynchburg, Va.,caused serious kidney damage, sometimes leading to death, reports the Associated Press. According to the lawyers that filed the suits, the Food and Drug Administration lists Phospho-soda as safe when used as a single-dose laxative, but in the early...

• School Bus Accidents Studied in Virginia News Story

  David Lowe | August 06, 2007 7:46 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Yesterday the Virginia-Pilot published a story by Marc Davis reporting that local municipalities paid about $7.5 million to more than 1,700 victims of accidents in 2004, 2005 and 2006 for wrecks caused by city cars, buses and trucks. About a third of the accidents involved school buses. The story makes the point that reliable data are not kept about the frequency of such accidents. But the...

• Fischer-Price Rainforest Play Yards Recalled - Dangerous

  Paul Jacquart | January 22, 2009 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 200,000 Fischer-Price Rainforest Play Yards because they are dangerous to children. There were reportedly...