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Current Events
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
General Motors is recalling more than 81,000 cars because their power steering systems could suddenly fail, making the vehicles harder to turn. The action expands a recall from last March that covered 1.3 million vehicles in the United States. Read more.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
How safe is your car? According to an Arizona auto repair group, one in five cars nationwide has an unfixed recall. Family-oriented vehicles are most at risk, with one in three minivans and one in five SUVs with unfixed recalls, according to a press release from the Neighborhood Auto Repair Professionals in Arizona. Read More.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the United States. Before the study, smoking was already blamed for nearly half a million deaths a year in this country from 21 diseases, including 12 types of cancer. Read More.
Friday, February 6, 2015
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Two days after the deadliest train crash in the history of the Metro-North Railroad, investigators on Thursday sought to shed light on a central mystery of the crash: how a train-on-car crash spread its devastation to the interior of the train. A federal safety official, asked at a briefing about the portion of the electrified third rail that tore through the front of the train, said the way Metro-North trains draw power from the third rail is different from other rail agencies. Read More.
Friday, February 6, 2015
(Bloomberg) -- Patients with high blood pressure need extra treatment within about six weeks to prevent heart attacks, strokes and death, according to a study that provides some of the first tips on timing for doctors. The risk increased for patients whose pressure rose above 150 and the longer doctors delayed adding additional treatment, according to Alexander Turchin, senior author of the study in the British Medical Journal. The risk also rose the longer doctors waited to reevaluate patients after the extra medication was added, he said. Read More.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO - As many as 80 million customers of the nation's second-largest health insurance company, Anthem Inc., have had their account information stolen, the company said in a statement. "Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack," Anthem president and CEO Joseph Swedish said in a statement posted on a website the company created for information about the incident. Read More.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
When Tove Schuster raced to help a fellow nurse lift a patient at Crozer-Chester Medical Center near Philadelphia in March 2010, she didn't realize she was about to become a troubling statistic. While working the overnight shift, she heard an all-too-common cry: "Please, I need help. My patient has fallen on the floor." Read More.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Dietary supplement fans got a big "buyer beware" warning this week when the New York attorney general's office ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart to pull a number of store-brand products from their shelves, following an investigation that found most didn't contain herbs listed on their labels. In some cases, the attorney general said the supplements didn't even identify potentially dangerous allergens. Read More.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
(Bloomberg) -- The people investigating the fiery commuter rail accident in New York are looking into why the electrified third rail that powers the train became dislodged during the crash and whether it contributed to the severity of the casualties. It’s not yet clear if the electricity to the track shut off automatically as it is supposed to do in an accident, Robert Sumwalt, a member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, said Wednesday at a news briefing near the crash site in Westchester County, New York. Read More.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
A federal judge in Philadelphia says $765 million isn't enough, especially for those who may have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease. Resist cheap Super Bowl metaphors. No allusions to the Seahawks' inexplicable last-second play calling. Here's what you need to know about the latest twist in the deadly serious matter of NFL concussions. Read More.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The main system for keeping track of the dangerous side effects of prescription drugs is deeply flawed, primarily because drug makers are submitting incomplete information about the problems to the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new study by a nonprofit group that tracks drug safety issues. Read More.
Alan W. Clark & Associates represent clients throughout Long Island and the New York Metropolitan Area, including New York County, Richmond County, Kings County, Queens County, Bronx County, Nassau County, Suffolk County, and Westchester County.
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