Monday, July 14th, 2008
If you bought a tire or had a flat fixed at Discount Tire or America’s Tire in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, norther California, or Arizona between August 1, 2006 and July 31, 2007, you should take you car back to the store for an inspection of the tire stems. Those companies are participating in a recall of valve stems manufactured in China for Dill Air Controls and distributed by Tech International. The rubber in the stems may crack, creating a safety hazard due to sudden or gradual loss of air pressure, which can cause wrecks due to loss of control or catastrophic tire failure. For more information, see this Discount Tire website.
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife sued the makers of heparin Tuesday after their newborn twins were inadvertently given massive doses of the blood thinner at a hospital. The product liability lawsuit, filed in Chicago, seeks more than $50,000 in damages. It claims that Baxter Healthcare Corp., based in Deerfield, Ill., was negligent in packaging different doses of the product in similar vials with blue backgrounds. The lawsuit also says the company should have recalled the large-dosage vials after overdoses killed three children at an Indianapolis hospital last year.
The Quaids’ children, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, and a third patient were at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Nov. 18 when they were mistakenly given vials of heparin that were 1,000 times stronger than the usual dosage.
Cedars-Sinai said Tuesday the mistake occurred when two pharmacy technicians failed to verify the vials’ concentration before placing them in the pediatrics unit where the lower-concentration heparin is kept. The nurses who administered the drug also failed to check the dosage, the hospital said in a news release.
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