Countless patients around the world depend on advanced medical devices to improve their quality of life. As the $110 billion medical device industry cranks out thousands of products every year, eye-opening reports continue to surface detailing faulty devices, repeat...
Month: April 2015
Trek Bike Recall
The very popular Trek Bikes are the subject of a very important Consumer Product Safety Commission recall of Trek bicycles with front disc brakes and black or silver quick release levers on the front wheel hubs, model years 2000 through 2015. At least three reported...
Blood Transfusion Gives the Gift of Food Allergies
Receiving a blood transfusion can mean the difference between life and death and is certainly a true gift given by countless well-meaning folks. However, in the case of a young Canadian boy, his blood transfusion also gave him a less welcome gift, food allergies. The...
Black Tea and Kidney Failure
Chances are drinking tea has been growing on you lately given that, the market for tea in the United States has grown by more than four times in the past twenty or so years. People are drinking twenty percent more tea than was consumed back in 2000. America's...
Listeria and Hummus
Once again we are sounding the alarms that more food-related listeria dangers are lurking out there. A very popular brand of hummus, Sabra, has had a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recall of about thirty thousand cases due to the high possibility it contained...