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• Canton Motorcycle Accident

  James Sabatini | April 25, 2007 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A 23-year-old man is in critical condition at Hartford Hospital this morning after an accident on Route 44 Tuesday.Christopher Hartman was on a motorcycle during the accident with a car at 9 p.m. near Davidson Chevrolet, police said. The motorcycle collided with a car and threw Mr. Hartman off his bike. The police are investigating and are asking for any witness to this collision to contact...

• Small Plane Crash in Windham, Connecticut

  James Sabatini | April 23, 2007 11:03 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A small plane crashed Sunday near a highway in eastern Connecticut and caught on fire, killing two people on board, officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and state police said.FAA spokeswoman Holly Baker said the Piper PA-23 went down adjacent to U.S. 6 near Windham Airport shortly before 4 p.m. The fire damage was so severe that the plane's tail number initially could not be read...

• Woman Dies in Car Accident on I-91N in Hartford

  James Sabatini | April 11, 2007 11:02 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A 43-year-old woman was killed in a two-car accident on I-91 northbound Tuesday around 9:30 p.m., state police said. Sheila Ruff, of 27 Charter Oak Place, suffered multiple blunt trauma when she was rear-ended by Zhong Chen near exit 29, state police said. Given the the loss of life from this accident, the state police accident reconstructionists are investigating and will issue a report that...

• Patient Awake During Surgery

  James Sabatini | April 10, 2007 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Studies say that up to 40,000 surgery patients a year are left awake but paralyzed during surgery.Two West Virginia women say that experience caused their father to commit suicide.Sherman Sizemore, a former coal miner and Baptist minister, killed himself in February 2006, two weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery. The family has filed a lawsuit claiming medical malpractice. According to the...

• Inadequate Head Restraints

  James Sabatini | April 05, 2007 3:11 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Head restraints in several passenger vehicles provided marginal or poor protection against neck injuries and whiplash, the insurance industry reported Thursday in new crash test results. Only 22 of 75 vehicles tested in a simulated rear crash at 20 miles per hour received the top score of good from the Virginia-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Several 2007 vehicles got the lowest...

• Two CT Men Die In Small Plane Crash

  James Sabatini | April 05, 2007 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Two of the three people killed in the crash of a small plane in Maryland on Wednesday were from Connecticut.The three people killed were members of the Mahopac Golf Club in New York and were headed to North Carolina for a golf outing. The NTSB is investigating the crash.

• Chirldren's Braclets Recalled Due to Lead

  James Sabatini | April 03, 2007 10:14 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  About 4 million Groovy Grabber children's bracelets, manufactured by A&A Global Industries, have been recalled because the paint on the metallic part of the bands contains high levels of lead, which is toxic for children and can cause adverse health effects if ingested.The lead containing braclets were sold at vending machines in department, grocery and discount stores, as well as shopping malls...

• Valeant Withdraws Permax

  James Sabatini | March 31, 2007 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  The FDA announced that the maker of the Parkinson's disease drug Permax was voluntarily withdrawing the medication because of the risk of serious damage to patients' heart valves. Permax increases the chance of regurgitation of the tricuspid, mitral and aortic valves of the heart.

• Zelnorm Pulled From Market

  James Sabatini | March 30, 2007 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG will stop selling a drug to relieve constipation after it was linked to higher chance of heart attack, stroke and worsening heart chest pain that can become a heart attack, U.S. government health officials said Friday. Novartis agreed to withdraw Zelnorm at the FDA's requestZelnorm, also called tegaserod maleate, is a prescription medication approved for...

• SUV Hits Pedestrian in Vernon

  James Sabatini | March 30, 2007 10:48 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  A 57-year-old pedestrian who was hit by an SUV Thursday night is recovering this morning from head injuries, police said. The woman is in stable condition at Hartford Hospital, police said. The woman was struck while crossing Hartford Turnpike in Vernon, CT. The accident remains under investigation.