Monthly Archives: January 2011

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited APC Paper Co. Inc. with numerous safety violations following the grisly death of an employee at the company’s Claremont, N.H. paper mill. The citations included three willful, one serious, and seven ... Read More

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced this week the signing of “memorandums of understanding” (MOUs) between the U.S. agency and equivalent agencies in Australia and Hong Kong. The broad purpose of the agreements is to improve product safety between the ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new treatment for major depression. Clinical tests of Viibryd, also known as vilazodone hydrochloride, showed that the medication improves the symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults. ... Read More

Toyota has recalled another 255,000 Lexus vehicles in the United States and Canada for fuel system defects, part of a larger global recall of Toyota and Lexus models that encompasses about 1.7 million vehicles. According to Toyota, “insufficient tightening of ... Read More

A number of football players from the high school and college level all the way to the NFL have been in the news recently, not for throws completed or yards run but for concussions and other types of traumatic brain ... Read More

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has slapped an Illinois excavation company with $360,000 in penalties after finding a number of safety violations spread across four separate excavation projects. The OSHA investigations were prompted after a Gerardi worker was ... Read More

Hong Kong has joined the United States and other nations in banning all prescription painkillers containing propoxyphene. The medication is indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate pain and has been widely used around the world for about 50 ... Read More

Ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone are the two hormones used in some of the most popular birth control pills used today, but some critics say the hormones make for a deadly combination. While effective at preventing pregnancy, the hormones can trigger ... Read More

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has returned home after spending 10 days in the hospital where she underwent surgery to amputate her right leg above the knee, a last-ditch effort to stop an infection that had started in her artificial hip ... Read More

Bath salts are becoming a serious drug problem in America and some states are considering banning the products because they make users hallucinate, and become paranoid and suicidal, according to a recent story in the Washington Post. ... Read More