Police in Arlington have yet to find the driver who crashed into a motorcycle on Highway 287 on Monday. Though the vehicle driver does not appear to be at fault in the accident that left the…
State inspectors have cited Iowa’s Legacy Gardens assisted-living center for resident abuse, backdating of medical records, violations of privacy rights, changing physicians’ orders, dozens of…
Clinical trials of Exubera, an inhaled insulin product, found increased cases of lung cancer among those using the product. Originally projected by Pfizer to reign in multi-billion dollar profits,…
The deaths of 238,337 U.S. Medicare patients from 2004 through 2006 could have potentially been prevented if not for patient safety errors. The total number of deaths among patients who had been…
A new study released in the April edition of Pediatrics found a rate of 11 drug-related harmful events for every 100 hospitalized children – with some children affected by more than one such…
Five individuals were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries late Sunday night when two vehicles flew off a Fort Worth Highway. Though it has not yet been determined whether…
Taking a motorcycle ride with his son just after midnight this morning, a 63-year-old man died when he fell from his motorcycle. He apparently struck an object along Interstate 30 in Fort Worth. His…
A man who regularly transports a replication of the Liberty Bell and the Ten Commandments stone tablets to the funerals of area veterans was injured Sunday night in a Dallas suburb when his truck was struck by a sport utility vehicle (SUV). He had apparently stopped on the westbound shoulder of a Hi
Check out today’s Dallas Morning News article on the investigation of the Denton State School and the impact of the investigation on the care of those with physical and mental disabilities statewide. Read Yesterday’s Post on the topic.
A Southlake toy-maker just announced the recall of about 122,000 units of Rock ‘N Ride plush rockers because the product could potentially injure young children. The company has received 35 reports of the rocker tipping over, with 10 such incidents resulting in injuries like bumps, bruised and lacer
Reports of alleged abuse and neglect at the Denton State School, a facility that houses about 600 people withmental and physical disabilities, have prompted a review by the Federal Department of Aging and Diability Services. In 2002 the school made headlines when a young man was bludgeoned into a co
Ex-nurse and retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is believed to have spread Hepatitis C to 15 military service members or their relatives at El Paso’s William Beaumont Army Medical Center by diverting painkiller from the patients to himself. Though details are unclear, an outbreak of Hepatitis C was
