Bed rails used in hospitals and nursing homes might at first blush seem the most innocuous of things and, when mentioned in the context of safety, deemed to be tools of the trade that enhance safety outcomes. The devices enable patients to more easily pull themselves...
Month: November 2012
NFL embraces technology to help deal with players’ head injuries
Although it might not be the industry in which head injuries -- traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), including concussions -- are most prevalent, dissuading any regular viewer of professional football games of that fact might make for a difficult proposition.Head trauma...
Glaxo’s product liability woes: latest Avandia settlement announced
It's good that London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK), one of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, is awash in money, because the company is certainly spending it to settle criminal and civil investigations into illegal marketing and product liability...
New safety tech promises great changes for motorists in future
A professor and traffic safety expert at one university calls the concept of accident-free cars "very hot" and says that the technology enabling them will be sufficiently advanced to allow such vehicles to begin operating on some roads and highways in the near...
Delayed diagnosis may cause major harm for New Jersey patients
Most New Jersey readers have probably never heard of valley fever, an illness caused by fungal spores most common in the southern United States. Valley fever is difficult to diagnose and rare in many parts of the United States, but health experts say that even in...
Material updates in the national meningitis tragedy
We informed readers in a prior blog post (please see our October 23 entry) that we would keep them fully apprised of material developments unfolding regarding the nation's tragic meningitis outbreak that first surfaced last month.As of the date that post was written,...
Major medical journal announces new publishing rule on drug trials
Citing her publication's expectation "that eventually this will become the norm," the editor of the internationally prominent British Medical Journal recently discussed a material change in the journal's publishing guidelines relating to drug companies' clinical...
Novice drivers’ decal update: Study cites strong safety benefits
The results are in on the first-ever public health study regarding the effectiveness of license decals that identify novice drivers.The findings are unequivocal and impressive, centrally entailing this conclusion: They work. In fact, researchers say that requiring New...
U.K. study on mammograms mirrors much American research
"It's good for you, so you do it."So says a breast cancer survivor and member of an independent expert panel in Britain that was commissioned by the government and a leading cancer organization there to investigate the true efficacy of breast cancer screenings.That...