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• Toxic Dust Found at WTC Site

  Ricky Bagolie | August 05, 2006 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  According to 1010 Wins, Demolition work at the Deutsche Bank building was suspended for one day this week after high levels of toxic dust were detected on the skyscraper's roof. Demolition was suspended Thursday and restarted yesterday after testing on July 28th revealed unacceptable levels of silica, which causes lung diseases."Any worker who contracts silicosis, asbestosis or any type of lung...

• Merck Fools Another Jury on Vioxx

  Ricky Bagolie | August 04, 2006 6:21 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  A California jury has found in favor of Merck in Vioxx. The case was filed on behalf of an elderly man who suffered a heart attack as a result of taking Vioxx. Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, the jury determined that Merck did not conceal information nor did Vioxx cause his health problems. This is one of over 2000 lawsuits filed in California. Thousands of cases are also...

• Accident on New Jersey Turnpike Takes Fashion Model's Life

  Ricky Bagolie | August 01, 2006 8:51 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Whenever your car breaks down on the road you need to be extra careful. A promising young fashion model was killed last weekend on the New Jersey Turnpike. According to Herald Tribune:She was en route to the airport in a car-service sedan Saturday morning when the vehicle broke down in the center lane of the turnpike, and was rear-ended by another vehicle. The New Jersey State Police confirmed...

• Overtime Lawsuits On The Rise

  Ricky Bagolie | July 27, 2006 11:39 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Workers whose employers fail to properly pay them the overtime they deserve may be able to file an overtime lawsuit. Generally, all workers are eligible for time-and-a-half overtime, except for those in the executive, administrative and professional categories. Changes in federal regulations in 2004 defined more clearly those exempt categories by using new job descriptions such as "exercises...

• Firefighter Vulnerable to Hepatitis C Infection

  Ricky Bagolie | July 05, 2006 10:59 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Firefighters are at risk of contracting Hepatitis C and should get tested to screen for this deadly disease. According to the American Liver Foundation,"Hepatitis C and Risk Factors for Firefighters, In this category we include firefighters, who in the course of their work find themselves in many situations where they may be exposed to blood. The primary route of hepatitis C virus transmission...

• Crime, Neglect and Abuse Go Unchecked in Nursing Homes

  Ricky Bagolie | July 03, 2006 1:07 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Lawsuits may be the only effective weapon available to end abuse and neglect in nursing homes. The idea is to make is to make it more expensive to give poor care than it is to give good care as most problems are the result of greedy nursing home corporations. According to an article by Evelyn Pringle of opednews.com, "Where a nursing home is located and who owns it was found to be critical...

• New Jersey Workers' Compensation Claims Decline

  Ricky Bagolie | July 02, 2006 11:29 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  The New Jersey Division of Workers' Compensation (NJ DWC) reported a 5% decline in the filing of claims in 2005 (37,248) from 2004 (39,212). The statistic also represents a 31% decline from 1992 (54,164).Is it safer work sites, less jobs or more injuries going unreported? Maybe a little of each. I do suspect, however, that there are thousands of undiagnosed and unreported injury, illness and...

• Liver Failure Linked to Anti-

  Ricky Bagolie | June 30, 2006 10:05 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  The New York Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) issued a strong warning Thursday that Ketek, a controversial antibiotic, could in rare circumstances cause serious liver injury, liver failure and even death.Ketek is manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug giant, and it has been approved to treat bronchitis, sinusitis and mild-to-moderate pneumonia.Thursday's...

• Beware Guidant Pacemaker Device Malfunction

  Ricky Bagolie | June 29, 2006 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  The FDA and Guidant has notified the public that a subset of implantable pacemakers, cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators [ICDs] is associated with five reports of device malfunction due to the failure of a low-voltage capacitor from a single component supplier. Patients with a bad pacemaker may experience premature battery depletion and are...

• Beware of Kidney Damage During Heart Surgery From Drug Trasylol

  Ricky Bagolie | June 22, 2006 1:10 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Your kidney damage or stroke that occured during or just after heart surgery may from a drug given to control bleeding during the surgery called Trasylol. It is worth investigating. According to Opednews.com,The researcher's determined that patients treated with Trasylol, had a risk of kidney failure 259% greater than patients who received no drugs. The problem for surgery patients who may...