The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Orders Artificial Hip Manufacturers to Conduct Post Market Health Studies The FDA orders hip manufacturers to conduct health studies in response to the growing realization that “metal on metal” artificial hip implants have been linked to high failure rates and severe health effects on numerous patients, the FDA has […]
Child Product Manufacturers Seek to Soften Safety Rules
Child product manufacturers seek to soften safety rules because every day children are hurt, maimed or killed by dangerous products. Even the cribs in which they sleep can be a danger. There have been multiple reports of strangulation and suffocation of babies sleeping in drop side cribs. Specifically, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has […]
This Month on Marin Voices and Views, a Public Access TV Show Hosted by Lawrence Strick:
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey
Pedestrian Accidents Occur on a Daily Basis
The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that more than 800 people are involved in pedestrian accidents in San Francisco each year. More than two pedestrians are hit each day. That accounts for about a “quarter of all injury crashes and, according to some reports, nearly half the city’s traffic fatalities.” A 2008 report by the […]
Let’s Demand Underinsurance Protection We Have Paid For
Regrettably, most consumers understand the wiles and sometimes sad ways of insurance industry with regard to underinsurance protection: We pay them our hard-earned money and then when we need them most the insurance companies have been known to find ways to avoid providing a benefit. Fewer of us realize that in one area of automobile […]