It’s been called a public health issue that often doesn’t register on America’s radar screen, but a front page story in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune underscored the problem of “backover” vehicular deaths of small children. Romanucci & Blandin believes the issue is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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The Bush administration is working hard on tort reform -- not through Congress but through the Supreme Court. Now that Bush has a majority most of the time, the Court has been issuing increasingly conservative decisions that preempt state laws with respect to consumer safety. Already, one decision, Riegler v. Medtronic, is protecting the medical device industry so long as they sought federal approval for their product to be sold to the public. Even the doctors are worried. When the doctors worry about medical safety it is time for you to worry also. Please read the attached article prepared by the Download file">New England Journal of Medicine.
