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Pizza Recall Due to Sharp Plastic:  Company Issues Food Recall for Frozen Pizza When a consumer eats a frozen pizza, he or she shouldn’t have to worry about being presented with a choking hazard due to shards of plastic mixed in with the cheese and toppings. And yet, that is what some people may…

San Antonio and Texas Have Many Fertilizer Plants:  San Antonio and Texas Have Many Potential West Fertilizer Risks While we all continue to read about and think about the tragedy that happened in West, Texas three weeks ago, people living in other areas of Texas might want to consider the potential of such tragedies…

Rewards for Medicare Fraud Information:  HHS Proposes Larger Whistleblower Rewards for Medicare Fraud Based on a proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), whistleblowers who assist in uncovering cases of Medicare fraud could soon see greater rewards than ever before. Up to a maximum of $9.9 million in some extreme…

In addition to the devastation to the town itself, the explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer plant has brought the issue of worker and worksite safety into the forefront of the public discussion.  Without serious regulations and oversight, employers have once again shown that they will take advantage of workers and will not focus…

All Methods of Texting and Driving Dangerous: Study Shows All Methods of Texting Dangerous It’s easy to see how typing out a text message on a cell phone while you’re actively driving a car down a highway can be dangerous. That’s why many of us have looked into alternatives, such as Siri’s speech-to-text technology,…

Teen Alcohol Use Remains a Danger: Parents Ignorant to Teen Drinking Realities It’s prom and graduation season here in Texas, which means a lot of teenagers will be celebrating their freedom. Some will just go to dinner, dance and go home, or hang out at a diner with friends. Unfortunately, many of them will…

Cause of Bus Accident Still Unknown Officials at Parkland Hospital in Dallas have confirmed that another passenger, an 82-year-old woman who was on the charter bus full of seniors that crashed on the George Bush Highway in Irving on April 11, has died from injuries she sustained in that crash. That brings the death…

3 Years Since Macondo Tragedy Last Saturday marked the third anniversary of the disastrous Deepwater Horizon accident. And while the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico continues, and is the subject of numerous commemorative articles, let’s not forget that the oil spill started with a horrific workplace accident, when an oil rig exploded and…

Robosurgery Causing Deaths: Increased Use of Robotic Surgery Leading to Increase in Robotic Surgery Deaths Though it sounds like something out of Star Trek, the concept of robotic surgery, sometimes called “robosurgery,” is already here, and a number of hospitals and surgeons have taken to using it. And why not? With robotic surgery, instead…

Owner Issues Statement Regarding Tragedy Over the past 24 hours, the news has been laden with stories of death, destruction, loss, and tragedy related to the West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion.  It appears, at this time, that a combination of fire and chemicals, likely ammonium nitrate, led to an explosion that killed many and…