May 2014

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ignored a congressional recommendation to pull General Motors cars with a potentially deadly defect from the road. NHTSA officials say that removing the cars from the road is unnecessary because the automaker has told drivers to only operate their vehicles with their key removed from their key rings.

An urgent product recall has been issued for PT/INR test strips manufactured by Alere. The company says that it has voluntarily issued a recall of its INRatio®2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips (PN 99008G2). Forbes reports that some patients who have therapeutic or near-therapeutic international normalized ratio (INR) readings have reported experiencing significantly INR readings when

General Motors recently lost its fourth executive amid investigations into a botched recall of nearly 2.6 million vehicles. The automaker recently announced that it was losing Jim Federico, its senior engineer in charge of global vehicle integration. One GM spokesman told reporters that Federico’s departure was voluntary and unrelated to the recent scandal surrounding the