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• Nursing Home Abuse on the Rise

  RLF Staff | June 26, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Nursing Home Abuse is increasing. The National Center on Elder Abuse estimates at least one in 20 nursing home patients has been the victim of abuse, though they believe the actual frequency is higher due to lack of reporting the abuse. There are well over one million Americans living in nursing homes, and that's expected to at least double in the next ten years. Advocates for the elderly and...

• Tyson Fresh Meat, Inc. Issues Recall of Over 20 Tons of E. Coli Contaminated Meat

  RLF Staff | June 14, 2007 6:12 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Tyson Fresh Meat, Inc. can be added to the list of food manufacturers who have had to recall E. Coli tainted products. On Friday, the company issued a recall of 40,000 pounds of beef in 12 states. The company decided to take this action after samples tested at its Texas plant revealed E. Coli contamination.The ground beef has a sell-by date of June 13, and was sold in prepackaged trays. The...

• Action Labs, Inc. Conducts Recall of Shark Cartilage Capsules Because of Possible Health Risk

  RLF Staff | June 12, 2007 6:10 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Action Labs, Inc. of Anaheim, CA, is voluntarily recalling its Sentinel brand Shark Cartilage Capsules manufactured in 2005 because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often...

• FDA scrutinized by Lawmakers ofer Avandia Issues

  RLF Staff | June 11, 2007 1:27 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  In one of the latest developments in the Avandia diabetes drug issue, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to FDA asking Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach to explain the agency's policy on conflicts of interest regarding hiring employees directly from drug companies regulated by the FDA.FDA spokesman Douglas Arbesfeld, who has worked for several drug companies, is one of the focal members in the...