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• F.B.I. to Start Showing Most Wanted on Billboards

  Linda Snyder | December 28, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and Clear Channel Outdoor have recently teamed up to show the F.B.I.'s most wanted bank robbers, criminals and terrorists on 150 digital billboards in 20 cities nationwide.Initially, a test run in Philadelphia proved the tactic to be extremely useful in leading to arrests. The digital billboards will be showing the mug shots of the most wanted.Some...

• Powers Fasteners Inc. settles $6 million wrongful-death lawsuit

  Linda Snyder | December 26, 2007 11:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  A $6 million settlement was reached earlier this week for a wrongful-death lawsuit involving the family of a woman who was killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel in Boston collapsed on her car in 2006.The lawsuit involved the epoxy supplier, Powers Fasteners Inc. The woman, Milena Del Valle, was crushed when 26 tons of concreted ceiling panels collapsed while driving through the tunnel.It was...

• Whole Foods Recalls Chocolate Bars

  Linda Snyder | December 20, 2007 11:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, Whole Foods, recalled milk chocolate bars on Tuesday, December 18th that were sold in their stores in Colorado.The brand name 365 Organic Everyday Value Swiss Milk Chocolate Bars with Rice Crisps with the "best if used by date" of 11/21/07 was recalled due to the possibility of containing nuts that are not listed properly in the...

• Residents in Midwest still with no power

  Linda Snyder | December 18, 2007 12:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A week after the huge ice storm that hit the Midwest, more than 88,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma are still without power.Temperatures have been falling into the teens overnight this week, leaving people not only in the dark, but fighting the rigid coldness. Some residents in Oklahoma have spent money on hotels, thinking their power would be restored in only a couple of days. Others have...

• Another Attempt by Merck to make cholesterol drug over-the-counter

  Linda Snyder | December 14, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co., has recently made a 3rd attempt to make the cholesterol lowering drug, Mevacor, available to consumers over-the-counter. Since 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the attempts due to possibly too many of the wrong people using Mevacor and risking unnecessary side effects.Merck & Co. defended their case by arguing that only 6 million of...

• UnitedHealth Group to make improvements

  Linda Snyder | December 11, 2007 3:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The nation's second largest health insurer, UnitedHealth, recently admitted to customer service mistakes."We understand relationships, and we recognize that this a health system that needs to work for everyone, not just for us," stated David S. Wichmann, who is charge of the UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s individual and employer markets.315,000 customers were lost this year due to poor customer...

• Half of Doctors in U.S. Report Medical Errors

  Linda Snyder | December 07, 2007 3:28 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Recently, researchers found that only half of all U.S. doctors report medical mistakes or unethical colleagues. Only 46 percent of physicians surveyed stated that they knew of a serious medical error and didn't report it. The U.S. Institute of Medicine surveyed more than 1,600 physicians in 2003 and 2004; only 31 percents had undergone a competency review in the past three years. About 98,000...

• Report Shows 40 Million in U.S. Can't Afford Health Care

  Linda Snyder | December 04, 2007 11:45 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A federal report released on Monday, December 3rd, states that more than 40 million people in the United States can not afford health care. As a result, these people go without their medication, dental and visual treatments.Nearly 15 million adults did not obtain eyeglasses, 25 million did not get dental care, 19 million did not get needed prescribed medicine, and 15 million did not get needed...