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News for 2009
Blood pressure med receives black box warning
Tekturna (aliskiren) tablets, a prescription medication used to treat high blood pressure, has updated its safety label to include a new black box warning about the risk of injury and death to developing fetuses when taken by women who are pregnant or become pregnant, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
American toy maker settles lead paint violations for $1.5 million
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced yesterday that RC2 Corp. of Oak Brook, Illinois has agreed to pay a $1.25 million civic penalty for importing toys to the United States that violated the federal lead paint ban. RC2 is the importer and seller of Thomas & Friends ™ Wooden Railway toys.
MRI injury leads to thermal blanket recall
Products from the Thermoflect line, which includes blankets used to treat hypothermia, are being recalled so that labels can be placed on the products with instructions to remind health care professionals that the products should not be used in the Magnetic Resonance (MR) environment or MR-compatible environments. In the past, the product instructions stated that they could be used in the MR environment, but a recent FDA investigation led the agency to require the company advise against use of the blankets in MR environments.
New rule requires registration system for many child products
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission unanimously approved a new rule that will require manufacturers of “durable” infant and toddler products to establish a product registration program. The Commission approved the new measure on December 16, 2009.
Plant safety worsens after passage of workers bill of rights
The “Packinghouse Workers Bill of Rights,” passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 2007 as part of an effort to improve safety conditions for workers in the meatpacking industry, has failed to make any improvement, according to a report by Workday Minnesota. A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program found that working conditions at meatpacking plants throughout the state actually have grown worse since the bill was passed.
ski helmet saves minnesota girl from brain injury
A Minnesota girl is alive – badly injured but alive — today following a skiing accident last week, thanks to the helmet she was wearing. Six-year-old Julia Griggs from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, was skiing downhill with her father at a recreational park last Thursday when she struck a tree head-on.
Window blind recall expanded; strangulation hazard to children
Collier Ursprung was a year and a half old when his parents walked into his bedroom and found the toddler standing in his crib with the cord of a window blind wrapped three times around his neck. “As he pulled it kept getting tighter,” his father, Robert, told ABC News. “We just averted a disaster that could have changed our lives forever.”
New studies find CT scans come with extreme risks
Two studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that CT scans may be much more dangerous than previous studies have shown, contributing to at least 29,000 new cases of cancer every year and causing 14,500 cancer-related deaths.
Distracted drivers cause at least one-third of all US traffic accidents
According to the Department of Transportation, every year in the United States, more than half a million people are seriously injured in traffic accidents caused by “distracted drivers.” An additional 6,000 people die in distracted-driving accidents, the latest victims of drivers whose attention was fixed on something other than the road. Distracted drivers cause one-third of all the traffic accidents on America’s roads and highways, and some safety experts say these figures are actually much higher because it’s not always possible to determine the underlying causes of many traffic accidents.
