Archive for April 2008

Hammocks Sold By LivingXL Recalled Due to Fall Hazard

Apr 29th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Home Recalls

Name of Product: Multi Texteline Hammocks and Striped Quilted Hammocks
Units: About 400
Retailer: Think Big Products LLC, dba LivingXL, of Canton, Mass.
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Nintendo Recalls Lapel Pins Due to Risk of Lead Exposure

Apr 29th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Children's Recalls

Name of Product: Character-themed lapel pins
Units: About 71,000
Distributor: Nintendo of America Inc., of Redmond, Wash.



Rio Brands Recalls High-Boy Beach Chairs Due to Fall Hazard

Apr 29th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Furniture Recalls

Name of Product: Rio Beach® High-Boy Folding Beach Chairs
Units: About 800
Manufacturer: Rio Brands, of Philadelphia, Pa.



DEWALT Recalls Table Saws Due to Laceration Hazard

Apr 29th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Tool and Hardware Recalls

Name of Product: DEWALT DW744 Jobsite Table Saws
Units: About 13,000
Manufacturer: DEWALT Industrial Tool Co., of Towson, Md.



Coronary Artery Plaque Imaging Device Cleared By FDA

Apr 29th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing a device that a doctor can use to see inside a blood vessel to assess the fat content of the plaque which builds up on the wall of the coronary arteries.



Lifetime Brands Recalls Certain Items From Its Pfaltzgraff® Villa Della Luna® Pattern And Nautica J Class® Pattern Stoneware Dinnerware Product Lines

Apr 28th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Home Recalls

Lifetime Brands, Inc., of Garden City, New York, has announced a recall on certain Stoneware products.



Actavis Totowa (formerly Known As Amide Pharmaceutical, Inc.) Recalls All Lots of Bertek And UDL Laboratories Digitek® (digoxin Tablets, USP)

Apr 28th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Drug Recalls

Actavis Totowa LLC, a United States manufacturing division of the international generic pharmaceutical company Actavis Group, is initiating a Class I nationwide recall of Digitek® (digoxin tablets, USP, all strengths) for oral use.



World’s First Gene Therapy for Blindness

Apr 28th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health News

A Government funded trial to treat inherited blindness by administering gene therapy to the human retina has proved successful, researchers have announced today.



Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Diabetes Doubling Before Motherhood

Apr 27th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health News

Diabetes before motherhood more than doubled in six years among teenage and adult women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the May issue of Diabetes Care. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/



More Than Twenty Percent of Children Not Fully Protected Against Vaccine-Preventable Disease

Apr 25th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health News

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will launch National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) with events beginning April 19 and continuing through April 26, 2008.