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• Former Chinese Drug Chief Executed

  Jenny Albano | July 10, 2007 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  On July 10th, the former drug and food safety chief of China, Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed. The Supreme People's Court agreed upon the death sentence after he was convicted of accepting bribes of around $850,000 from eight different companies and neglecting his duties.Zheng, head of administration from 1998 to 2005, was sentenced on May 29 and his appeal was heard last month. Under rules...

• Beware of Dangerous Shelhigh Medical Devices

  Ricky Bagolie | May 03, 2007 7:47 AM | 1 CommentJersey City, NJ

  Shelhigh, Inc of Union, New Jersey, has been told by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to recall all of its medical devices in the marketplace, including hospitals, as there is a fear that the devices are not sterile. They manufacutured various devices that are used in adults infants and children. Anyone who experiences problems or injury as a result of the use of these medical devices...

• Congress Fails in Hursing Home Abuse Oversight

  Ricky Bagolie | April 24, 2007 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  An article in the New York Times over a six year period, Congress has failed in it's oversite of bad care in nursing homes. Bad homes that mistreated their residents received minimal or no penalties. This is no surprise as the billion dollar nursing home industry has many legislatures in their deep pockets. Nursing home residents who receive bad care or are mistreated may have the right to...

• Job Caused Cancers on the Rise

  Ricky Bagolie | April 19, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  According to the International Metalworkers Federation,A new cancer prevention guide, reveals that over 600,000 deaths a year - one death every 52 seconds - are caused by occupational cancer, making up almost one-third of all work-related deaths. Workers are exposed to many types of potential cancer causing agents. Very often the cancer may develop after the worker retires from the job. Any...

• Beware of Pet Food Tainted with Rat Poison

  Ricky Bagolie | March 24, 2007 3:02 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  An investigation has revealed that the recalled pet food produced by Menu Foods was tainted with the rat poison aminopterin. Dogs and cats that have eaten the bad food have suffered from kidney failure and death. Over 60 million cans and pouches of the Company's "wet pet" food, some of which was canned in New Jersey and sold in over 90 brands, have been recalled. Contact Bagolie Friedman...

• Firefighters Heart Risk Covered By Workers' Compensation

  Ricky Bagolie | March 23, 2007 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  According to the Houston Chronice, a recent Harvard Study finds that firefighters run a 100 times greater risk of a heart reated death whie putting out a fire than when they are not fighting fires. Thirty two percent of the heart related deaths occurred this way. Heart disease, caused by exposures to diesel fumes and carbon monoxide and heart attacks caused by the stress of fighting fires...

• Bad Pet Food Causes Kidney Failure & Death

  Ricky Bagolie | March 22, 2007 8:26 AM | 1 CommentJersey City, NJ

  Pet food giant, Menu Foods, has recalled more than 60 million cans and pouches of wet style dog and cat food after it has been linked to kidney failure and death in many pets. The company, based in Canada, has plants in Kansas and New Jersey that produced the tainted food. A full list of the recalled products may be found at www.menufoods.com/recall.Menu Foods may be subject to lawsuits on...

• Beware of Increase Risk Due to Some Birth Control

  Ricky Bagolie | March 01, 2007 8:18 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Public watchdog Public Citizen hs petitioned the FDA to ban all third generation oral contraceptives containing the incredient desogestrel because it nearly doubles the risk of life threatening blodd clots when compared to the older forms of the pill."The FDA must ensure the well-being and safety of women in the U.S. and ban third-generation oral contraceptives containing desogestrel," the...

• New Jersey Comp Benefits May Extend to Same Sex Couples

  Ricky Bagolie | February 27, 2007 10:57 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Same sex couples may be entitled to workers' compensation benefits as New Jersey has enacted a wide-ranging law recognizing same-sex civil unions. The measure puts civil unions on the same legal footing as marriages, and grants couples in civil unions the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as those in traditional marriages, but stops short of declaring the unions to be "marriages." The...

• Australia's Securities Regulator Sues James Hardie Over Asbestos Liability

  Ricky Bagolie | February 24, 2007 9:39 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  According to Bloomberg News, out of Sydney, Australia's securities regulator sued James Hardie Industries, the biggest seller of home sidings in the United States, claiming the company misled investors over the cost of compensating people sickened by asbestos.The chairman, Meredith Hellicar, the former chief executive officer, Peter MacDonald, and eight other officials face bans from running a...