Richard Flagg’s days became numbered the instant a New Jersey (NJ) surgical team cut out his healthy lung instead of the one containing a bleeding tumor in 2000. That surgery error made Flagg dependent on oxygen bottles and wheelchairs until his death in 2003. Flagg’s story is one of many told in a series of…
A visit to a hospital doubles your risk of death compared to driving on a highway in the United States. This is just one of the shocking revelations reported by Hearst on hospital safety in America. Nearly 200,000 people die each year from medical errors and infections obtained while admitted in a hospital. Our law…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to use bodybuilding supplements that claim to have steroid-like effects. The agency is also ordering one maker of such products to take their supplements off the market. According to the FDA, any dietary supplement sold using words like “anabolic” or “TREN” can contain steroids and…
Police in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (N.C.) say that there appears to be no foul play in the death of a man at a hospital on Thursday. Initial investigation shows that 23-year-old James Collins was found dead in an isolation room at Coastal Plain Hospital around 2:30 p.m. It appeared that Collins had been dead…
The Food and Drug Administration requested that Avandia’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline, add the strongest warnings about fatal heart attacks among users of the medication in 2007. Now, Public Citizen is highlighting liver problems from taking the diabetes type 2 drug Avandia, which is also known as rosiglitazone. Data published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety…