Topic: Richard Stone
AP News | 2009-10-05 19:01:02
Richard Stone holds an X-ray of his pelvis and hips on Thursday June 9, 2009, in Palm Beach Fla. Stone languished for months with undiagnosed pain in his artificial hip before doctors discovered that a piece of metal on the ...
AP News | 2009-10-05 19:00:57
AP Enterprise: United States has no reliable system to track defective medical implants
Three years ago, the maker of a surgical clip called the Hem-o-lok issued an urgent recall notice warning doctors to stop using the fasteners on living kidney donors. It said the clips could dislodge in their bodies, with "serious, even life-threatening consequences." Not everyone got the message ...
guardian.co.uk | 2008-07-20 16:05:02
Flick through the property pages of your local paper and they're all there: "Pay for 75% and get 25% free for up to 10 years!", "100% yours, only 75% cost", "Pay just 85% of the price now and the rest within 10 years!". Developers are falling over themselves to sell new-build houses and flats. Nothing unusual there, you might ...
