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• FDA Pulls the Plug on Flavored Cigarettes

  Greg Webb | October 04, 2009 9:46 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  The FDA has banned flavored cigarettes from the market as its first act since being given the authority to monitor and regulate the marketing and manufacturing of tobacco products. It is widely...

• Bayer Warned By FDA Regarding Birth Control Products Quality

  Greg Webb | September 24, 2009 10:00 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators have written a letter warning drugmaker Bayer about quality control issues in the company’s plant in Berghamen, Germany. This plant is responsible...

• D.C. Metro Crash- Both Human and Mechanical Error

  Greg Webb | July 19, 2009 9:32 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Investigations will soon be underway regarding the Washington D.C. Metro’s Red Line crash that killed nine people and injured dozens. Early indications have suggested a computer system...

• Gulf War Syndrome is Real Says Congressionally Mandated Panel

  Greg Webb | December 01, 2008 8:00 AM | 6 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Gulf War syndrome is real and afflicts one-fourth of the 700,000 U.S. troops who served in the War, says a panel report issued in November. A congressionally mandated scientific panel released the...

• Federal Court Appointments Could Mark Shift in Judiciary

  Greg Webb | November 19, 2008 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  President-elect Barack Obama will be appointing federal appellate judges, and possibly multiple Supreme Court justices, without the difficulties that President George W. Bush had over the past eight...

• Cruise Ship Run Aground in Virginia

  Jenny Albano | November 10, 2007 7:17 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  On Thursday, November 8 sixty-six passengers and crew members were transported to Virginia's shore by the Coast Guard after their cruise ship ran aground.The ship, the Spirit of Nantucket, hit something while traveling in the intracoastal Waterway at around 5:30 a.m. and shortly began taking in water. When the captain realized this he decided to run the ship aground instead of letting the ship...

• Controversial Medical Device - Menaflex - Approved By FDA

  Greg Webb | October 07, 2009 5:11 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  In a bid to get a controversial knee-surgery device known as Menaflex approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ReGen Biologics relied too heavily on two consultants with strong ties to...

• Toyota May Be Forced To Reopen Rollover Crash Cases

  Greg Webb | September 13, 2009 5:22 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Toyota Motor Company is already facing demands that roll-over crash cases it settled or won be reopened, after a former company attorney, Dimitrios Biller, accused the automaker of hiding records...

• Toyota Issues Recall in Nineteen States - Corollas and Scions

  Greg Webb | September 07, 2009 7:32 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., is launching a voluntary Safety Recall on nearly 96,000 Toyota and Scion vehicles. Per the press release from Toyota: “On certain 2009 and 2010 model year...

• “Don’t Let Us Get Sick” – Consumer Reports Surveys Patients, Nurses on Hospital Sanitation

  Greg Webb | September 07, 2009 6:46 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Consumer Reports (CR) recently took a “side-by-side” survey regarding the sanitary conditions of hospitals across the country. In 2009 it interviewed 731 nurses who worked in different...