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2011 Reel Justice Fishing Tournament, Sep 30 - Oct 1 in Port Aransas |
| Join the TTLA Advocates for our first Annual Reel Justice Fishing Tournament, and see who gets bragging rights as TTLA's fishing champion! The fun starts Friday evening with a Welcome dinner, where you'll meet your guide and pick up your tournament materials. Saturday morning at first light, it's ON! Registration fee includes boat, guide, Welcome dinner on Friday, breakfast, lunch & snacks on Saturday, tournament t-shirt, and other goodies! |
Products |
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FDA: Home Shoulder Massager Extremely Dangerous |
| The Food and Drug Administration has announced that the ShoulderFlex Massager poses serious health risks to consumers, and has caused one death due to strangulation. The agency said necklaces, hair or parts of clothing can become caught in part of the machine that rotates, posing a severe strangulation hazard. The device, distributed by King International, is a personal massage device designed for home use. Staff Report, Kansas City Info Zine 08/28/2011 | Read Article: Kansas City Info Zine |
Laws/Cases |
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Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against VA Doctors |
| A Utah woman has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs over the death of her husband from an overdose of medications prescribed by VA doctors. The man, who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury he sustained in Iraq, was taking a myriad of drugs. The lawsuit claims his doctors should have monitored his prescriptions more closely and that they failed in their duty to "provide reasonable, necessary, appropriate and timely medical care and treatment." Dennis Romboy, The Deseret News 08/18/2011 | Read Article: The Deseret News |
Issues |
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Soldier May Challenge Supreme Court Ruling |
| There are few battles with worse odds for a U.S. serviceman than trying to sue the U.S. government for negligence. It's not winnable, if the court cases over the last 61 years have proved anything. But Air Force Senior Airman Colton Read, his wife may well try it anyway.Read was undergoing gallbladder surgery on July 9, 2009, at the David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base outside Fairfield, Calif., when the resident physician, an Air Force captain, sliced the aorta just above where it splits to provide blood to the lower extremities. What protects the U.S. government from lawsuits or damages brought by active-duty service members or their survivors is called the Feres Doctrine, so-named because of a 1950 case, Feres v. the United States of America. Read was eventually transferred to a civilian hospital where the aorta was repaired, but it was too late to save his legs. Despite federal judges railing against the fairness of the Feres Doctrine, including Justice Antonin Scalia, who once wrote that the decision "was wrongly decided and heartily deserves the widespread, almost universal, criticism it has received," the precedent remains in place. Those who support the doctrine say that allowing military members to sue for negligence could cost the government tens of millions of dollars a year and that it will undermine the command structure and unit discipline. Chris Vaughn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram 08/29/2011 | Read Article: Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
Healthcare |
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Rural Texas Hospitals Prepare for Cuts |
| In the coming months, rural Texas hospitals are facing cuts to programs and services that jeopardize already strained resources. Hospital administrators are bracing themselves and trying to come up with solutions before Thursday, when “cost-saving” measures to Medicaid determined during the 82nd Legislature go into effect. The first round of cuts came in 2010 in the form of a 2 percent reduction to reimbursement rates to doctors, hospitals and nursing homes. Another wave will take an additional 8 percent, but will affect rural hospitals only in their outpatient services because the Medicaid program in Texas pays rural hospitals the cost of providing their services rather than the standard statewide Medicaid rate. Claire Cardona, San Antonio Express News 08/29/2011 | Read Article: San Antonio Express News |
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