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Jacob Sanchez and John Reynolds, Texas Tribune 03/01/2016 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Parents Often Catch Hospital Errors Doctors Missed
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Parents often catch medical errors that their child's doctor missed, according to a U.S. study that suggests families may be an untapped resource for improving hospital safety and preventing mistakes. Roughly one in ten parents spotted mistakes that physicians did not, according to the study of safety incidents observed on two pediatrics units at a hospital in Boston. 'Parents may notice different things than healthcare providers do, and thereby provide complementary information that can only help make care safer,' said lead study author Dr. Alisa Khan, a pediatrics researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.
LISA RAPAPORT, Reuters 03/01/2016 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Corporate Campaign to Ditch Workers' Comp Stalls
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A campaign by some of America's biggest companies to 'opt out' of state workers' compensation ' and write their own plans for dealing with injured workers ' was dealt a major blow Friday when an Oklahoma commission ruled the alternative system unconstitutional. Company plans were supposed to provide equal benefits to workers' comp. But in its unanimous ruling, the Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Commission compared that notion to 'a water mirage on the highway that disappears upon closer inspection.' In addition, the U.S. Department of Labor said in a letter obtained Monday that it is evaluating whether opt-out plans in Texas and Oklahoma violate workers' rights under federal law.
Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR, ProPublica 03/01/2016 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Jury Deliberates $164M Lawsuit Against Audi
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Lawyers for the family of Jesse Rivera Jr., 10, claim that the driver's seat in the family's Audi sedan was defective causing serious injury to the child in a December 12, 2012 traffic crash. The child, who was 7 years old at the time, suffered massive head injuries when his head collided with his father's head during the crash. The lawsuit alleges that the driver's seat was defective in design and manufacture.
Paul Venema , KSAT.com 02/29/2016 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Fears About Water Supply Grip Village That Made Teflon Products
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A public health emergency is playing out in Hoosick Falls, near the NY-Vermont border that has been upended by disclosures that the public water supply was tainted with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, a toxic chemical linked in some studies to an increased risk for cancer, thyroid disease and serious complications during pregnancy. Last week, a federal class-action lawsuit was filed against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell International, the current and former owners of the plant that according to the state, was the source of the PFOA contamination. The toxic chemical is associated with the making of Teflon, which was used in products manufactured at the plant.
JESSE McKINLEY, The New York Times 03/01/2016 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Monsanto Given Legal Shield in a Chemical Safety Bill
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Facing hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits, the giant biotechnology company Monsanto last year received a legislative gift from the House of Representatives, a one-paragraph addition to a sweeping chemical safety bill that could help shield it from legal liability for a toxic chemical only it made. The provision would benefit the only manufacturer in the United States of now-banned polychlorinated biphenyls, chemicals known as PCBs, a mainstay of Monsanto sales for decades.
ERIC LIPTON, The New York Times 03/01/2016 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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