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• MOM Enterprises is Recalling Baby's Bliss Gripe Water

  Jenny Albano | September 22, 2007 8:41 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  MOM Enterprises, in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling Baby's Bliss Gripe Water ,apple flavor, with a code of 26952V and expiration date of October 2008. The recall was initiated because the presence of cryptosporidium was found during lab tests and after investigating the illness of a 6-week-old infant in Minnesota who consumed the product.Cryptosporidium is a parasite that can cause...

• Truck Accident Closes Lanes on 57

  Staff Writer | September 11, 2006 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A tractor-trailer rollover on I-57 in Illinois closed the northbound passing lane for most of Thursday morning last week. The accident occurred just after midnight, and the driver escaped serious injury. Crews were forced to close all northbound lanes of 57 for about 15 minutes later in the day while workers removed the overturned semi. Officials were still investigating the cause of the...

• Eye-Surgeon Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled

  Kerry Stochl | October 03, 2006 2:35 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  In a strange case against a former eye surgeon ion Arizona, a medical malpractice lawsuit was settled last week. Dr. Bradley Schwartz was being sued for malpractice, but he and his attorneys decided to settle rather than go to trial. The reason: Schwartz and his lawyers though he may not be able to find impartial jurors since he was convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder just four...

• Woman Files Premises Liability Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart

  Staff Writer | August 22, 2006 2:09 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A judge ruled last week that a Wal-Mart department manager and employee cannot be held liable for negligence in the case of a woman who filed a slip and fall lawsuit after slipping on spilled birdseed in the store. Margaret Benjamin named Wal-Mart and the employees as defendants, but the judge decided the employees did not have enough control over the running of the business to be held...

• Man and Child Killed in Pedestrian Accident

  Mark Bronson | August 07, 2007 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A man was killed in a pedestrian accident while crossing the street with his granddaughter in the near northside of St. Louis recently. The girl suffered severe injuries and subsequently died of her injuries. Ronald Jones and his granddaughter Aryanna were crossing Kingshighway when they were hit by a southbound car.An officer with the accident reconstruction team said it was not immediately...

• Avoid Slips and Falls This Winter

  Shannon Weidemann | February 27, 2007 6:37 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  Slipping on the snow and ice could give you an injury you were not expecting this winter season. It is important to avoid this type of accident. Experts say wearing the right shoes in inclement weather is the most important factor in safeguarding against a slip and fall. They say high heels are worst kind of shoes you can wear around ice because they often have absolutely no traction. However,...

• School Bus Overturns, All Passengers Taken to Hospital

  Jenny Albano | October 10, 2007 8:41 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A school bus overturned Tuesday, October 10 on the way to a high school volley ball game. All 31 passengers on the bus were transported to the hospital.10 of the students were flown by helicopter to local hospitals, but none of the injuries were thought to be life-threatening.The bus was carrying students from Viburnum High School in southeast Missouri to nearby Lesterville. A woman answering...

• Six Year Old Injured From Pool Drain Dies

  Jenny Albano | March 22, 2008 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A 6-year-old whose intestines were partially sucked out from a swimming pool drain last year has died. Abigail Taylor died Thursday night in a Nebraska hospital with her parents, Scott and Katey, by her side.Abigail was injured on June 29 when she sat on a pool drain at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She had small...

• Avandia's Safety Slammed by New Study

  Jenny Albano | July 18, 2007 5:44 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A new German study, published in the Cochrane Library journal, attacked the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's drug Avandia. The study did not find much evidence to support that Avandia improved the lives of people with diabetes. The conclusion of the study was that the drug could actually more complications of the disease worse. Information for this subject was pooled from 18 trials of over 8,000...

• Doctors Hesitant to Acknowlege Malpractice

  Staff Writer | September 12, 2006 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A recent New York Times opinion piece discusses a survey of more than 2500 doctors in the United States and Canada which revelaed doctors believe patients deserve to know about medical errors, but only about half the doctors surveyed would not admit errors of their own.The researchers are dubious that limits on malpractice suits would have much impact on what doctors admit. Changes in medical...