Aplyn Wynn-Jones, 80, took two hours to complete the journey and was so exhausted when he got home that he was physically sick.
His family called an emergency doctor but the retired civil servant died of multiple organ failure the following day.
His relatives are angry that hospital staff did not arrange transport to take him home.
They say they are considering legal action after the Heathcare Commission upheld their official complaint against Read the rest of this entry »
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia circuit judge is well within his rights to hold a hearing on mental health care services, the state Supreme Court has ruled in a stinging decision that says conditions of “Dickensian squalor'' are present in one psychiatric hospital.
The court on Friday rejected a bid by the state Department of Health and Human Resources to block Kanawha County Circuit Judge Duke Bloom from holding an evidentiary Read the rest of this entry »
No doubt, 2008 has been a rough year just about everywhere, with slings and arrows targeting everybody from an ambitious plumber to the president. Somewhere in the middle is the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), chartered by Congress to ensure the safety of our nation’s foods and medicines. Thanks to FDA regulations, 21 new drugs have been approved in 2008 but many pharmaceutical-industry insiders say the FDA is dragging its bureaucratic Read the rest of this entry »
No doubt, 2008 has been a rough year just about everywhere, with slings and arrows targeting everybody from an ambitious plumber to the president. Somewhere in the middle is the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), chartered by Congress to ensure the safety of our nation’s foods and medicines. Thanks to FDA regulations, 21 new drugs have been approved in 2008 but many pharmaceutical-industry insiders say the FDA is dragging its bureaucratic Read the rest of this entry »
is safe in baby formula in small amounts, the
said. The F.D.A. had said before finding the contamination that melamine might be harmful in infant formula in any amount. The F.D.A. began barring Chinese milk products from entering the country this month after melamine-tainted milk sickened more than 50,000 children in China since September. Members of Congress and consumer groups criticized the agency this week for not publicly disclosing that a Read the rest of this entry »