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Tasered 6 year old boy's Family Sues Police

In an article published in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel parents of a 6 year old boy will sue the police department that fired a taser at the young boy after a confrontation in the school office. First of all, how can you call this a confrontation? How is it possible the police or anyone else for

By The Legal Examiner

/ 3 Mar 2006

Tequin Study Reveals Blood Sugar Problems

According to a Canadian study to be published March 30th in the New England Journal of Medicine, users of the antibiotic Tequin were 17 times more likely to receive emergency room treatment for hyperglycemia or high blood sugar. If untreated, the condition can be fatal. The antibiotic has been used

By The Legal Examiner

/ 2 Mar 2006

Florida Legislature to Debate Taser Use

There’s a well-balanced, thoughtful editorial in the Palm Beach Post this morning that is worth a read on tasers. The upcoming legislative debate over taser use comes in light of the tragic and unnecessary death of a Ft. Pierce man. Samuel Hair of Fort Pierce was suffering from mental illness not cr

By The Legal Examiner

/ 2 Mar 2006

Celebrex Increases Heart Attack Risk Two-Fold, According to Study

New Zealand’s Medical Research Institute has found that Celebrex users are nearly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as those taking other arthritis drugs, commonly known as Cox-2 inhibitors. Last August, Pfizer, the manufacturer of Celebrex, put a “black box” warning on the drug yet Celebrex

By The Legal Examiner

/ 1 Mar 2006

Guidant Officials Worried About Device Defects

When Guidant Corp. came under fire last year for not revealing to doctors it’s problems with its medical device, it remained positive in its public announcements. But newly released documents show that, inside Indianapolis-based Guidant, executives were struggling to contain a mounting crisis.The re

By The Legal Examiner

/ 1 Mar 2006

3 Police Officers on Leave After Taser Death

A second Fort Pierce police officer and an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the death of Samuel F. Hair Jr. Hair, 48, was given a Taser shock by police the night of Feb. 21 in the Lawnwood Regional Medical Cen

By The Legal Examiner

/ 1 Mar 2006

Victoria's Secret Product Recalled

The following recall notice was published in News Inferno:The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Victoria’s Secret Direct, of Columbus, Ohio, have announced the voluntary recall of some 500 Silk Kimono Tops manufactured in the United States by Single of Los Angeles, California. Consumers should

By The Legal Examiner

/ 27 Feb 2006

Fort Pierce Man Dies After Being Tasered in Emergency Room

A 48 year old Ft. Pierce man died after being tasered by police in a hospital ER. Samuel Hair, who used a pacemaker, was shocked with a Taser on Tuesday night after he became unruly in the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute. He stopped moving after being hit twice

By The Legal Examiner

/ 26 Feb 2006

Safety Tips for Driving an SUV

Some good advice printed in the San Jose Mercury News:There is some encouraging news. New SUVs are being built lower to the ground, decreasing their chances of rolling over and improving safety when SUVs collide with cars. It’s not the weight of the SUV that poses a risk to people inside cars; it’s

By The Legal Examiner

/ 24 Feb 2006

Man Catches Fire after Hit by Taser

A Daytona Beach man caught fire after being tasered by police. He caught fire when a probe from a police Taser gun hit a butane lighter in his pocket and set him on fireA Taser probe hit a disposable butane lighter in his shirt pocket and ignited. Officers then rolled him to the ground to put out th

By The Legal Examiner

/ 23 Feb 2006

Third Stun Gun Death in a Month in New Orleans Area

A man died about 36 hours after being subdued with a stun gun by St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputies responding to a domestic disturbance at his home, authorities have revealed.The case marks the third time in less than a month that a suspect has died after being shocked with a Taser gun in the Ne

By The Legal Examiner

/ 23 Feb 2006

Nashville Police Revise Taser Policy

Metro police sergeants are called in whenever a taser is needed. Beginning Friday, paramedics will also help subdue people who could be tasered. This new policy is an effort to prevent deaths from excited delirium. Exited delirium can happen when a person is on drugs and has to be tasered because th

By The Legal Examiner

/ 22 Feb 2006