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Thousands of Patients Each Year Suffer from Surgical Sponges Left Behind by Doctors
USA Today reported that "Thousands of patients a year leave the nation's operating rooms with surgical items in their bodies. And despite occasional tales of forceps, clamps and other hardware showing up in post-operative X-rays, those items are almost never the problem. Most often, it's the gauzy, cotton sponges that doctors use throughout operations to soak up blood and other fluids." These mistakes have life-altering consequences. Read more.
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Study: More Distracted Driving in U.S. than Europe
 A recent CDC study compared the percentage of distracted drivers in the United States and seven European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
The study found that among U.S. drivers (ages 18-64 years old), 69% reported that they had talked on their cell phone while driving within the 30 days before they were surveyed, compared to 21% in the United Kingdom. It also found that close to one-third of drivers in the United States reported that they had read or sent text messages or emails while driving compared to just 15% of drivers from Spain.
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Survey: People Think Distracted Driving Worsened
A recent survey by AAA found that nine in 10 people felt that distracted driving is worse now than it was three years ago. But too many are still part of the problem. While more than 80% of people surveyed said that texting and emailing is "a very serious threat to safety" and "completely unacceptable," more than a third surveyed admitted to reading a text or email in the past 30 days. In fact, more than a quarter (26.6%) typed a text or email. Read more. |
Researchers Find No Evidence that Gun Laws Reduce Violence
The Independent Institute notes that a 2004 study by the National Academy of Sciences could not identify "a single gun law that had lowered violent crime, suicide, or gun accidents. This wasn't a minor report, but a massive review of 253 journal articles, 99 books, and dozens of government studies. Other research has found that handguns have been used more often for defensive purposes than for committing crimes." Each year, "three to six times as many victims successfully defend themselves with guns as criminals misuse handguns," writes attorney, criminologist, and Independent Institute Research Fellow Don B. Kates Jr. A study published in the BYU Journal of Public Law found that firearms were used approximately half a million times per year to stop home invasion burglaries, and in most of those cases no shots were fired: merely brandishing a gun sent the burglars fleeing.
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| Appeals Court: School's Response to Bullying Must be Effective to Protect Against Liability
A new bullying case originating in New York has been decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The case demonstrates that schools potentially may be held liable for monetary damages even in cases where they take steps to respond to harassment that occurs in school. The ruling in the case means that a school response needs to be effective in order to be legally sufficient. Read more.
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Report: Unregulated Labs Pose Bioterror Risk
USA Today reported that the United States is at increased risk for accidents at laboratories conducting research on potential bioterror germs, such as anthrax, because federal officials have failed to develop national standards for lab design, construction and operation, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. Meanwhile, another recent government audit has found significant failures by federal officials to detect security and safety violations during inspections of bioterror labs. The undetected issues included the transfer of anthrax and plague to an unauthorized facility, and allowing workers at multiple research facilities to remain on the job with expired security risk assessments. Security at bioterror labs has been an issue of particular concern since the 2001 anthrax letter attacks; a scientist at an Army biodefense lab was later implicated. Read more.
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Author: Outdated Laws Drive Gov't Spending
Philip Howard, author of "The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America," founder of reform coalition Common Good, and vocal critic of the tort system, now "wants to banish out-of-date regulations that drive up costs and perpetuate senseless programs." Read more.
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