Monthly Archives: March 2009

California nursing homes are taking advantage of last year’s cuts to the state’s ombudsman program and slacking off on responsibilities to their patients, according to Ombudsman Services of Northern California. The organization lost two-thirds of its staff when Gov. Arnold ... Read More

It happened suddenly for Sara Ensley of Grand Haven, Michigan. She first complained of irritated eyes and a sore throat on March 7, her 14th birthday. Two days later she had developed a rash on her body, blisters in her ... Read More

One side of Carol Stanley’s fight to balance the scales of justice is her work with the Crime Victims Task Force. As we explained in the previous segment, Carol is working with the Alabama Attorney General’s Office to make the ... Read More

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is facing a new round of headaches since its coal ash impoundment failed last December and dumped a billion gallons of toxic coal ash on to an east Tennessee neighborhood. Now it is facing the ... Read More

Another prescription heart medication has been pulled from the market because some pills have been found to be oversized. Those oversized pills may contain slightly higher levels of the active ingredient than specified, according to the Food and Drug Administration ... Read More

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has paid east Tennessee home and landowners more than $9.5 million to compensate them for damages after the utility’s Kingston, Tennessee coal ash impoundment failed late last year and poured more than a billion gallons ... Read More

The Singapore National Eye Center (SNEC) has restored sight to the blind through a medical procedure called Osteo-Odonto0Keratoprosthesis, or tooth-in-eye, according to a news release issued by medical center. ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week safety labeling changes on the blood thinner heparin to include warnings of fatal medication errors that have resulted in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (HITT), in particular in ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has cited a Missouri restaurant with numerous violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a report in the Bolivar Herald-Free Press. ... Read More

Like many people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, Florence Warren was prone to wandering off. She had escaped from numerous care centers in the past, which is why her family chose to move her into Good Samaritan Skilled ... Read More