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• Dayton Officer Injured In Bus, Car Collision

  Richard Schulte | September 24, 2007 11:16 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  DAYTON, Ohio -- Police in Dayton said an officer was injured when his cruiser collided with a car and a school bus.The crash happened around 2:30 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Keowee and Monument Streets.The driver of the car said the officer ran a red light. The officers and the bus driver were taken to a local hospital.Investigators said none of the children on the bus were injured.The...

• Ohio to suspend death penalty system

  Richard Schulte | September 24, 2007 11:10 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  Ohio should temporarily suspend executions to allow a review of the state's capital punishment system because of several flaws, including racial and geographic imbalances, a team of lawyers concluded in a study to be released Monday.''The state fails to provide adequate measures to protect defendants,'' ABA President William Neukom said in a statement. ''Nobody should be executed until the...

• Thai air crash kills 88

  Richard Schulte | September 17, 2007 10:57 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A budget airliner crashed while trying to land in driving rain and swirling wind, killing 89 people, 55 of them foreigners. A Forensic team from Israel will be arriving Tuesday.Three years after Phuket saw the largest forensic operation in history, Thai and foreign experts will join forces to identify the charred bodies from Sunday's plane crash on the Thai resort island.For more information on...

• Avandia Linked to 42% Greater Risk of Heart Attack

  Richard Schulte | September 13, 2007 11:21 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Users of Avandia, appear to be at increased risk for a heart attack or heart failure. Regulators should seriously consider whether the drug should be allowed to remain on the market.The pooled data from the trials indicated that Avandia, compared with controls, significantly increased the risk of heart attack by 42 percent (94 of 6,421 patients who received Avandia vs. 83 of 7,870 patients who...

• Vioxx class action rejected by top N.J. court

  Richard Schulte | September 07, 2007 1:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  New Jersey's Supreme Court yesterday rejected a class-action lawsuit against painkiller Vioxx maid by Merck & Co. The ruling is a huge legal victory for the drug maker, which faces nearly 27,000 individual lawsuits from people claiming Vioxx, once a widely used arthritis treatment, caused heart attacks and strokes.The state's highest court, reversing two lower-court decisions, ruled that a...

• Drug stents worse on heart attack victims

  Richard Schulte | September 04, 2007 1:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Heart attack victims given drug-coated stents after an acute heart attack are nearly five times more likely to die six months to two years later than those with bare metal forms of the arterial scaffolding, research showed on Tuesday.Drug stents remain highly controversial in the cardiology community and fears about late stent thrombosis have led to a slump in sales in the past year.Eckhart...