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Hospitals Switching To Electronic Record Keeping To Reduce Error Risks

July 19, 2012 Due to the fact that each person’s medical records are written by hand, thousands of patients are affected by medical errors that occur because of a lack of information availability or misinterpretation of patient information. Some of these mistakes have even resulted in the filing of Raleigh Medical Malpractice lawsuits. In order to […]

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Amusement Park Safety Tips

Defective Product, Disease & Injury Prevention, Health and Safety, Safety

If your plans for the rest of the summer involve a visit to an amusement park, you’re not alone. Every year in the United States alone, about 290 million people visit amusement parks, and they enjoy more than 1.5 billion rides. (It gives me whiplash just thinking about it!) Given those statistics, it’s amazing that

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Video Gaming Doesn't Make You Better at Talking While Driving

Auto Accident, Distracted Driving

In North Carolina, it is illegal for anyone to text while driving, and for people under age 18 to use a cell phone while driving. Some experts believe that talking on a cell phone while driving should be illegal for everyone, including people who use hands-free devices. That’s because talking alone–the act of participating in

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Jet Ski Safety Guidelines

Brain Injury, Disease & Injury Prevention, Health and Safety, Personal Injury, Safety

On July 6, 2012, Usher’s 11-year-old stepson, Kile Glover, suffered a serious head injury after a jet-ski accident. The child was floating on an inner tube with a teenaged friend when they were struck by a jet ski piloted by 38-year-old Jeffrey Hubbard. While an investigation is continuing, drugs and alcohol were not involved. According

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FDA Announces New Law To Improve Medical Industry

Drug Injury

July 12, 2012 To create a more innovative and efficient healthcare system, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that the President had signed The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) into law. According to a press release, the act will allow the FDA to collect user fees from companies that

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Latest Poisoning Risk for Children

Health Advice, Health and Safety, Safety, Toxic Injury

When my youngest sister was about 4 years old, she climbed up on a chair…then onto the kitchen counter…then stood on a wooden box to reach the highest shelf inside a cupboard. That’s where she found what she thought was candy. It was, in fact, a bottle of orange-flavored “baby aspirin.” After a trip to

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GlaxoSmithKline Drug Found To Put Patients At Risk Of Heart Attacks

Drug Injury

July 5, 2012 In the wake of GlaxoSmithKline being forced to pay roughly $3 billion after the company failed to inform the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of risks that certain medications they produce could pose to patients, the company is now coming forward with new information that another medication could put patients at risk

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Protecting Health in a Heat Wave

Disease & Injury Prevention, Health Advice, Health and Safety, Safety

Baby, it’s hot outside…and it is only going to get hotter as the weekend and the summer progress. We thought we would pass along some words of wisdom from a variety of experts about how to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy during this heat wave. According to the Centers for Disease Control and

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Smithfield Father Fighting For Guardianship Of Injured Son

Brain Injury

June 28, 2012 According to WRAL News, the father of a Smithfield, North Carolina, teen hospitalized at WakeMed is fighting to keep guardianship over his son. The young man was a 17-year-old high school senior when he was involved in a car accident in March 2011 that left him seriously injured. Doctors determined that he had suffered

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FDA Investigating Dialysis Machines

Medical Devices, Wrongful Death

People who require dialysis have it tough enough without also having to risk sudden death from faulty dialysis machines. According to an article in The New York Times, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into potential violations of federal regulations by Fresenius Medical Care, the nation’s largest operator of dialysis centers, which

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ProLz

Hospitals Switching To Electronic Record Keeping To Reduce Error Risks

Amusement Park Safety Tips

Video Gaming Doesn't Make You Better at Talking While Driving

Jet Ski Safety Guidelines

FDA Announces New Law To Improve Medical Industry

Latest Poisoning Risk for Children

GlaxoSmithKline Drug Found To Put Patients At Risk Of Heart Attacks

Protecting Health in a Heat Wave

Smithfield Father Fighting For Guardianship Of Injured Son

FDA Investigating Dialysis Machines

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