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• Cloud's Tuna and Egg Salad Sandwiches Recalled Due to Contamination

  Jenny Albano | August 08, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  CFS Operating Ltd. is recalling 4219 units of Cloud's Tuna Salad Sandwiches and Egg Salad Sandwiches because they may be infected with Listeria monocytogenes, which is an organism that can cause serious infections in children, elderly people, and those with weak immune systems and may even cause death. For healthy adults the infection may cause high fevers, headaches, stiffness, nausea,...

• Food and Drug Administration to Strengthen Warnings for Antidepressant Drugs

  Bruce Roberts | June 01, 2007 2:47 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the strongest possible warnings for antidepressants to warn patients and physicians that the drug could increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in adults 18 to 24 years of age.The action comes after a Food and Drug Administration committee recommended the warning after finding small increases in suicidal thoughts, and behaviors by young...

• 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...

• 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...

• California Moves to Ban Flavoring in Popcorn Linked to Workers' Illness

  Bruce Roberts | May 17, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  Since 2001 academic studies have shown causal links between bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of restrictive lung disease and the chemical used in artificial butter flavoring called Diacetyl. Flavoring manufacturers have already paid out more than $100,000,000.00 in personal injury lawsuits by people sickened by what is now known as "popcorn workers' lung" over the past...

• State Court Ruling Places all Vioxx Suits in Texas on Hold

  Bruce Roberts | May 15, 2007 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A ruling by a state district judge has resulted in more than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits presently pending in Texas against the pain medication Vioxx on hold until the Judge's order can be appealed. State District Judge Randy Wilson granted a motion by Merck and Company, Inc. the manufacturer of Vioxx to dismiss part of the plaintiffs' lawsuits. The basis for the order was a law passed in...

• JURY AWARDS PARALYZED COLLEGE STUDENT $11.7 MILLION

  Bruce Roberts | April 11, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsTyler, TX

  A Fulton County, Georgia jury awarded Joshua Coleman, a 19 year old Piedmont College freshman $11.7 million for a spinal surgery that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The surgery, in 2003 was to relieve chronic back pain. But after the surgery, Coleman ended up in a wheelchair paralyzed. Coleman's attorney blamed his paralysis on a medical mistake by his surgeon and a team of doctors...

• 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...

• 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...