Miscellaneous

• Health Insurance Antitrust Bill Passed By House of Representatives

  Jamie Sheller | February 27, 2010 3:34 PM | 3 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  With a vote of 406 to 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would make federal antitrust laws applicable to the insurance industry. For 64 years, the insurance industry has...

• Serious Breach of Security at Bank of New York Mellon

  Jamie Sheller | October 02, 2008 9:01 PM | 3 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Bank of New York Mellon has lost a box of back-up tapes containing social security numbers, names and possibly account numbers of millions of customers. It is believed that the box was lost in...

• No one is Immune to Identity Theft

  Jamie Sheller | May 01, 2008 12:43 PM | 3 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  It is estimated that someone has their identity stolen every 4 seconds in the United States. Victims spend an average of 600 hours and eight thousand dollars ($8,000) recovering from this crime. No...

• FDA Warning For Some Diabetic Testing Strips

  Jamie Sheller | August 17, 2009 3:33 PM | 2 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Recently, the FDA issued a warning regarding the use of certain types of glucose testing strips. According to the FDA, some of the strips can't distinguish between maltose, xylose, galactose, and...

• Sutter Health Data Breach Affects 4M Patients

  Jamie Sheller | November 30, 2011 3:22 PM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  Sheller, P.C. is investigating a data breach of Sutter Health, which has left the private information of more than 4 million patients in the Sutter Health network of providers vulnerable to...

• Smokeless Tobacco

  Jamie Sheller | January 10, 2011 10:22 AM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. will pay $5 million to the family of a Bobby Hill, who died at 42 from tongue cancer caused by nearly 30 years of chewing tobacco. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco is owned by...

• Safety Alert- Brake Defect Leads to Over 15,000 BMW Motorcycles Recalled

  Jamie Sheller | June 24, 2010 10:22 AM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  BMW recently recalled 15,532 US motorcycles from its K 1200 and R 1200 series for model years 2007 to 2009 for defects that could cause the front wheel brakes to fail. The National Highway Traffic...

• Data Security Breach At Lincoln National

  Jamie Sheller | January 19, 2010 12:54 PM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  Recently, Lincoln National Corp. revealed a data breach that could affect over one million customers. Lincoln National is a financial services company based in Radnor, PA. The security breach may...

• Link Between St. John's Wort and Cataracts

  Jamie Sheller | December 12, 2009 12:43 PM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  Many people use the herb St. John's Wort as an alternative to prescription drugs for the treatment of depression. However, recently researchers have found a link between the popular herb St. John's...

• Can You Really Trust That Scientific Article?

  Jamie Sheller | August 19, 2009 10:37 AM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  Readers generally expect objective information from scientific papers authored by doctors at top medical schools. However, evidence suggests a widespread practice of doctors attaching their names to...