InjuryBoard Reno Archives

• Medical Care Costs Climb

  Steve Klearman | March 14, 2008 6:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Briefly: the cost of medical care posted a small 0.1 percent increase in February as doctors' fees actually fell. However, medical care, the fastest-rising price category outside of energy, is still up by 4.5 percent over the past year.

• Nevada Slow to Inspect Endoscopy And Other Surgery Centers

  Steve Klearman | March 13, 2008 3:33 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The Reno Gazette reports that the State Health Division has fallen behind in inspecting surgical centers for more than 10 years and has failed to inspect half of all centers over the past six years as is called for by Federal guidelines.More specifically, State inspectors failed to inspect 22 of Nevada's 50 surgical centers over the last six years and at least one center has gone without...

• Reno Surgery Center Situation Different So Far From Las Vegas Hepatitis Scare

  Steve Klearman | March 10, 2008 2:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  I've been travelling for depositions the last few days while the story of deficiencies among ambulatory surgery centers has been brewing.What's clear from the recent publicity regarding surgery centers other than the infamous Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada is that not so much is clear. Apparently when the State determined that as many as 40,000 people who visited the Southern Nevada house...

• Nevada Hepatitis Links

  Steve Klearman | March 07, 2008 2:13 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Here's a great link to the Las Vegas Review Journal's Clearinghouse page of links. Highly recommended! Review Journal Links on Hepatitis Scarel

• Nevadans Question Vaccinations

  Steve Klearman | March 07, 2008 2:09 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  According to an article from PBS: Newshour Extra dated March 7, 2008, a number of parents are blaming vaccinations for the emergence of autism in their children.Parents are filing their cases in a "federal vaccine court," which was set up to protect vaccine makers from bankruptcy. If the vaccination companies are found at fault, the award plaintiffs will come from a government fund and not from...

• Chinese Take Shot at Nevada Hepatitis Situation

  Steve Klearman | March 04, 2008 10:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  I used to live in Taiwan and I've travelled back and forth to Mainland China many times.The Chinese do things in subtle ways sometimes.For years now, China has felt the pressure of U.S. criticism of Chinese safety standards.This is why it comes as little surprise that China is now running stories in the Chinese press about LOW AMERICAN SAFETY STANDARDS. We shoot at them; they seek out...

• Nevada Hepatitis Doctor Served on Nevada Medical Board

  Steve Klearman | March 02, 2008 11:44 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  This comes to me once again from Susan Gallagher, Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts:Dipak K. Desai, M.D., was re-elected to the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the board. Dr. Desai practices in Las Vegas and has served on the board since September 1, 1993, having just been re-appointed by Governor Miller for his second four-year term. In his capacity as...

• Vegas Ricin Apparently for Baking Cookies

  Steve Klearman | March 01, 2008 6:02 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A number of weeks back I was flying into Vegas, and as we were nearly on the ground I looked out my airplane window and noticed an unusual sight, even for Vegas: the top floor of the Monte Carlo was on fire and there were flames jumping off the top of the hotel. And then, suddenly, the pilot aborted the landing and we were back up in the air. No explanation given.That's the way authorities now...