NJ Officials Warn of Lamp Oil Poisonings After 6 mistake Lamp Oil for Apple Juice, 1 Person Dead

New Jersey officials have issued a health alert saying six people have been sickened by mistaking lamp oil for apple juice, including one person who died. Bruce Ruck of the state Poison Information and Education System says the six drank small amounts of the oil, which resembles apple juice in color and is packaged in a similar container. Health officials haven’t identified the brand.

Please click on the link below to read the ABC News article:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=5297198

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Study Finds Home Defibrillator Is No Help

Consumers are unlikely to benefit from buying household versions of emergency equipment meant to revive victims of sudden heart seizures, according to long-awaited results from a clinical trial recently announced. The equipment — automated external defibrillators — has been marketed to health-conscious consumers for its ability to provide life-saving jolts of electricity to people whose hearts have stopped beating, or are beating so chaotically and rapidly that they could die within minutes.  In reporting their findings at a major cardiology meeting in Chicago and online in The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers who conducted the trial noted that the devices clearly save lives in hospitals, emergency vehicles and in busy public settings like airports and casinos where trained employees are on duty. But the study, which included more than 7,000 patients at risk of having the seizures because of previous heart attacks, found that patients in homes equipped with the gear died at the same rate as those without it.

Please click on the link below to read the New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/business/02heart.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=health&adxnnlx=1214838380-CBDCCDnWxxMFNDa3yKVRcQ

For more information on defending medical malpractice and nursing home matters in Florida contact Howard Citron at The Citron Law Firm, P.A. – www.citronlegal.com.

Missouri’s Tort Reforms Credited for Decreased Litigation

Missouri is less the hotbed of litigation than it was before state lawmakers passed landmark tort reform three years ago, a leading observer said Monday. Michael Grote, legislative consultant for the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told Legal Newsline that the Show Me State’s legal climate has improved significantly since the state placed caps on damage awards, among other reforms, in 2005. “The legal climate in Missouri has improved in terms of legal fairness,” Grote said in a telephone interview. Missouri has gone from being ranked 34th to 31st in an annual comparison by Harris Interactive of states’ legal climates from the perspective of in-house corporate counsels around the nation, he noted.

Please click on the link below to read the Legalnewsline.com article:

http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/211563-missouris-tort-reforms-credited-for-decreased-litigation

For more information on defending medical malpractice and nursing home matters in Florida contact Howard Citron at The Citron Law Firm, P.A. – www.citronlegal.com.