American Heart Association reports Breast Cancer Treatments may increase the risk of Heart Disease
March 3, 2018
Dallas, TX – Breast cancer patients may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulation.
The statement is an overview of what we currently know about risk factors common to both heart disease and breast cancer, the potential heart damage from some breast cancer treatments, and suggested strategies to prevent or minimize the damage.
Breast cancer survivors, especially older women, are more likely to die from cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure rather than breast cancer. (American Heart Association)
Tennessee Highway Patrol Interdiction Plus Trooper makes Traffic Stop and Discovers Large Quantity of Marijuana
May 28, 2016
Memphis, TN – On May 20th, Trooper Owen Grear of the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s (THP) Memphis District Interdiction Plus Unit (IPU) initiated a traffic stop that led to the discovery of approximately 116lbs of marijuana, and the arrest of an Arizona woman on felony drug charges.
Trooper Grear stopped a 2006, Dodge Caravan for a traffic violation on Interstate 40 at mile marker 26 in Shelby County. As Trooper Grear made contact with the vehicle and the driver Karla D. Munoz, 23, of Phoenix, AZ, he observed a five-year-old child in the far rear seat lying down and unrestrained.
Tennessee State Trooper discovers 116lbs of marijuana hidden in Dodge Caravan.
American Heart Association says Cost, Fear, Lack of Information may limit CPR usage for Urban Minorities
September 16, 2013
American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report
Dallas, TX – Cost, fear and a lack of information are barriers for minorities in urban communities to learn and perform CPR, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Hands-Only™ CPR. (American Heart Association)
Big Lots Recalls Floor Lamps Due to Shock Hazard
January 14, 2012
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Floor Lamps recalled by Big Lots due to shock hazard.
It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. [Read more]
Child’s Entrapment Death Prompts Big Lots Recall of Metal Futon Bunk Beds
June 17, 2011
Washington, D.C. – In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Big Lots, of Columbus, OH, is voluntarily recalling about 30,000 metal futon bunk beds.
Children behind the futon or in the ladder area of the bunk bed can get entrapped when the futon and its metal frame are lowered from the seated to the flat position. This is what happened to a three-year old Burlington, IA boy who died when he became entrapped at the head and neck in the recalled bunk bed in March of 2010. The weight of the futon’s metal frame prevented the child from breathing and escaping. CPR was administered, but the child died at the hospital due to compression asphyxiation.
Recalled metal futon bunk bed.
