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• Mattel Announces 3rd Recall in a Month

  Pete Strom | September 06, 2007 1:52 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Mattel and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced its third recall in a less than a month late Tuesday. The company is recalling more than 800,000 Chinese-made toys that contain excess lead paint.Most of the recalled toys include Barbie accessories that were manufacturing beginning September 30, 2006. Other recalled toys include Big Big World 6-in-1 Bongo Band toys made by the...

• Troopers Have a New Goal: Lower Fatalities

  Pete Strom | September 06, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  South Carolina state troopers are hitting the roads in the Midlands in an effort to reduce fatalities in those areas. Teams of troopers in the area are focusing only on stopping speeders and drunk drivers, in response to rising traffic death rates.During the first six months of 2007, seventy people died in Richland, Lexington, and Kershaw counties, a statistic that includes eleven more deaths...

• Egyptian College Students Arrested in South Carolina Indicted on Terrorism Charges

  Pete Strom | September 06, 2007 1:34 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  The two Egyptian college students who were charged with having a pipe bomb in South Carolina just under a month ago have been indicted on terrorism charges.Both face indictments for carrying explosive materials across state lines, which carries a 10-year prison sentence. Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, also faces terrorism charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives in...

• Avandia and Actos to Contain "Black Box" Warning Labels(2)

  Pete Strom | August 17, 2007 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Health officials announced this week that the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos will contain "black box" warnings. "Black box" warnings are the most severe warnings that a prescription drug can receive.The new warnings will alert consumers that the drugs may cause or worsen heart problems and that patients should be carefully monitored. The new warnings come just weeks after the Food and Drug...

• Peter Pan and Great Value Peanut Butter Have Been Linked to a Nationwide Outbreak of Salmonella

  Pete Strom | March 08, 2007 8:53 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter that have product codes beginning with 2111 have been linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella that has sickened 370 people from 42 states. I have been amazed at the number of calls and emails our firm has received this week from people who had eaten Peter Pan or Great Value brand peanut butter and developed Salmonella which causes diarrhea,...

• Peter Pan Peanut Butter Salmonella Recall Update

  Pete Strom | February 19, 2007 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  This Peter Pan peanut butter recall is much more serious than I originally thought. We have received a number of calls today from families from around the country. One person is in the hospital for salmonella poisoning and others are telling me of episodes of nausea, fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps. I am advising people to go the doctor if they are still having salmonella symptoms. We are...

• Arkansas Woman Sues Wyeth Over Prempro

  Shannon Weidemann | January 22, 2007 10:24 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Helen Rush of Little Rock, AR is suing drug manufacturer Wyeth on the allegation that the drug Prempro caused her to develop breast cancer. She sued the company in 2005 and the jury is now being selected. Prempro is a combination of estrogen and progestin, used for hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. Rush took the drug for nine years and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. ...

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  Staff Writer | August 27, 2006 12:26 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

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• Lead Paint Still a Risk to Children

  Pete Strom | January 05, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC

  Over 300,000 children in the United States are poisoned by lead from lead based paint annually. 83-86 percent of homes built before 1978 (over 64 million homes nationally) contain lead-based paint. Since 1991, the Centers for Disease Control has emphasized the need to make primary prevention of lead poisoning a high priority for health, housing and environmental agencies at the state, local...