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West Palm Beach, Florida The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has recently taken the extraordinary step of requiring The Breast Institute at the JFK Medical Center North, located at 2201 45th Street in West Palm Beach, Florida, to notify their patients and their medical insurance companies of serious deficiencies […]

Is the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency charged with protecting the safety of Americans from dangerous and deadly items in the marketplace, doing its job? A Senate report released in December 2019 raises the question after faulting the powers that be for their ineffective responses to recalls involving […]

Outdoor living spaces have become a trend in homes, especially South Florida homes. Whether one lives on the Intracoastal Waterway, has a glimpse of the ocean or enjoys a larger lot out west with a sunset view, bringing the interior to the exterior is a common theme among homeowners. The […]

CDC Says 6 out of 1,000 Newborns Suffer from Drug Withdrawal Drug-addicted mothers passing along the egregious effects of opioid use to their children has increased on such a large scale that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given it a name: neonatal abstinence syndrome. Neonatal abstinence syndrome, […]

Penny-Pinching on Positive Train Control  Amtrak trains have been involved in four deaths since December 2017, including the most recent tragedy in South Carolina that killed two crew members and injured more than 100 passengers. The engineer of the Miami-bound train, 54-year-old Michael Kempf, of Georgia, died after crashing into […]

Patient Access to Adverse-Incident Reports Threatened Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission has on its 2018 agenda a proposal to amend a provision that gives parties in medical-malpractice lawsuits access to adverse-incident reports that can make or break cases. The proposal, made by Commissioner Tim Cerio, seeks to limit such access for […]