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• FDA Issues New Warnings on Sleep Medications

  Bruce Roberts | March 25, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered manufacturers of sleeping pills to strengthen their warnings about a rare side effect known as sleep driving. According to the report many if not all sleeping pills may sometimes cause sleep driving. This rare side effect was first noted in the media when Congressman Patrick Kennedy crashed his car. Congressman Kennedy blamed the wreck on the...

• DEATH IN GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY RESULTS IN WRONGFUL DEATH MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT

  Bruce Roberts | March 23, 2007 1:32 PM | 1 CommentTyler, TX

  The mother of a Houston woman who died after undergoing gastric bypass surgery filed a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit against the surgeon, Dr. Younan Nowzaradan, and Houston Community Hospital. In her wrongful death lawsuit the mother claims that the doctor and the hospital did not sufficiently warn her daughter who weighed 520 pounds that the surgery would be especially risky for...

• Tap Water Burns

  Bruce Roberts | March 21, 2007 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Almost every day nearly 300 children end up in emergency rooms around the country suffering from serious burns caused by tap water that is simply too hot. It only takes a few seconds for a child or an elderly person in water with temperatures about 130 degrees to be severely burned requiring hospitalization, skin grafts, and lifetime scars.Too often when these events happen, it is the parents...

• Is the Medical Malpractice Crisis Real?

  Bruce Roberts | March 19, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  On every television channel and in every newspaper it seems at least once a week you hear some story about the medical malpractice crisis. Politicians and tort reformers use this alleged epidemic of frivolous lawsuits against doctors to assert that this epidemic is forcing doctors to leave whatever state the politician is in; and that patients cannot get necessary medical care because doctors...

• Safety Investigation into Dodge Pickups

  Bruce Roberts | March 17, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into a potential defect in the Daimler-Chrysler Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup series manufactured from June 2002 through July 2005. The potential problem is that if a driver tries to put his car in park, it may be in fact be a false park. The problem appears to be that even though the gearshift indicator looks like...

• Tips to Improve Riding Mowers

  Bruce Roberts | March 15, 2007 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Every year nearly 20,000 are injured badly enough by riding lawnmowers and yard tractors that they require hospital treatment. Approximately 75 people are killed every year and of those, one in five are children. Most adults would never let a child play with or near a working chainsaw yet chainsaws and riding lawnmowers have the approximately the same injury rate, 1 injury a...

• Mother Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit against Daughter's Killer

  Bruce Roberts | March 01, 2007 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A mother has filed a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit against the man who murdered her pregnant daughter and her seven year old grandson.Also named in the suit are Barbee's accomplice and two ex-wives. The lawsuit seeks to determine if Barbee transferred assets to his ex-wives to shield money and property from future lawsuits. Both women deny the accusation."If we're going to recover any money,...

• Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich Chicken Breast Strips and Cuts Recalled

  Christina Cole | February 23, 2007 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Carolina Culinary Foods (CCF), a Kraft Foods external manufacturer, issued a recall on February 18th for Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich Chicken Breast Strips with a "Best if Used By" date of "19 APR 2007" due to the finding of Listeria monocytogenes in one package. Kraft immediately issued a recall.Kraft has not received any reports of listeriosis in conjunction with the February 18th recall and they...

• High School Football Player Charged with Assault

  Christina Cole | February 15, 2007 11:10 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A high school running back has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge after he allegedly kicked a teammate in the groin during practice.He is accused of kicking the 16-year-old intentionally. The boy was taken to the hospital following the incident.A warrant was issued the following week and he surrendered. A $250 bail bond was posted immediately on one count of assault with bodily...

• Man Killed when His Car Crashes into Tree

  Christina Cole | February 01, 2007 3:31 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A 74-year-old Tyler man is dead after his car crashed into a tree on Thursday, February 1st. Investigators say the man was in the 500 Bock of North Border when his vehicle veered off the road and crashed into a tree.Emergency crews transported the driver to Texas Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The car accident is still under investigation at this time.