In a possibly unprecedented move the Missouri Healing Arts Board has suspended a physician, Dr. Randall E. Meyer, from practice until a hearing scheduled for February 4, 2013. According to the story reporting the suspension in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 26 the board could not find any mention of a previous action like […]
According to the results of some recent testing in Europe he drug Pradaxa has been shown to possibly be harmful to patients with mechanical heart valves. The FDA has issued a warning that the popular blood thinner should not be used by patients that have been given these types of valves. A recent clinical trial […]
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has issued a new fact sheet outlining the effects of mold and the safeguards that must be taken when mold is in the workplace. This has been a response to the mold that cleanup workers in the Hurricane Sandy aftermath are facing. The sheet gives background information on mold, […]
The New York Times published an article recently that described a serious problem that has not been handled very well by the authorities – injuries and deaths that have been caused by bedrails. These incidents are an all too common occurrence in homes, hospitals and nursing homes. According to the article the bedrails are a […]
According to a recent story reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a 78 year old man was traveling for over 11 miles the wrong way on Interstate Highway 44 in Southwest Missouri. The man was initially spotted by Missouri State police Tuesday evening. The officers attempted to accurately track his progress by traveling the right […]
A man who sped away from a Missouri Highway patrolman who was trying to pull him over for speeding has been charged with felony assault on a police officer and driving while intoxicated. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on December 10 that the car reached up to 110 MPH while the chase was going on. […]
A dishwasher that had been the subject of a recall in 2009 has been blamed for causing $70,000 in damages to a St. Peters home. The dishwasher, a Bosch and Siemens Model according to the report in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was recalled by BSH home Appliances Corporation due to a bad electrical component that […]
The use of generators has been in the news recently with all of the power outages on the east coast that resulted from Hurricane Sandy’s devastation. We certainly aren’t strangers to rough weather in Missouri, so purchasing a generator may very well have crossed your mind in order to keep your home powered in the […]
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article published November 4 reports a Joplin Hospital, Freeman Health System, will pay $9.3 million for improperly compensating Doctors that referred patients to the facility. It is against federal law for physicians to send patients to hospitals that they have a financial vested interest in. This violation was found by an […]
A man who has been arrested at least five times for DWI has been sentenced to four months in jail after accepting a deal from prosecutors. A story published in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reveals that the driver, who crashed into two parked cars at a McDonalds in Des Peres Missouri in 2010, was unaware […]
