Issues |
Agency: 1,001 Texas Water Suppliers Didn't Test for Lead, Copper in '15 |
Of the 2,245 Texas public water suppliers that were supposed to test for lead and copper in their systems last year, 1,001 failed to do so, according to officials at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The failure to test in Texas comes as national news outlets follow ongoing problems with lead and copper contamination in Flint, Michigan. State officials changed the source of the city's water supply and since then unhealthy levels of copper and lead have leached from old pipes into Flint's water supply. Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Denton Record-Chronicle 01/28/2016 |
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Healthcare |
Doctors Who Get Sued Are Likely to Get Sued Again |
One percent of all doctors account for 32 percent of all paid malpractice claims, and the more often a doctor is sued, the more likely he or she will be sued again. Researchers analyzed 10 years of paid malpractice claims using the National Practitioner Data Bank, a federal government database that includes 66,426 claims against 54,099 doctors. The study is in the New England Journal of Medicine. NICHOLAS BAKALAR , The New York Times 01/28/2016 |
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