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The popular anti-depressant drug medication known as Zoloft has been recently linked to birth defects, if taken while a mother is pregnant. For many years, Zoloft was widely prescribed to patient’s suffering from depression throughout the United States and abroad. Birth defects linked to the dangerous drug Zoloft are as follows: pulmonary hypertension, anal atresia, club foot, congenital heart defects, and craniosynostosis. If you took Zoloft during your pregnancy and your child has a birth defect, you need to immediately…

A member of Mission High School’s 2010 Academic Athletic Association championship boys’ basketball team, Stafone Jackson, 20, died on a camping trip of an apparent drowning earlier this month. Reports say that a swim with his friends was more difficult than it appeared and about halfway back, Jackson began yelling for help and quickly sank before his friends could get to him. Jackson, who was entering his second year at UC Riverside, was at the Union Valley Reservoir in North…

Emergency crews have been credited with saving the life of a two-year-old boy after he nearly drowned in a backyard pool in Providence, RI earlier this month. Firefighters had been called to the Providence home within a few minutes of the toddler being found, reports say. But nobody knew how long the boy had been in the water. When emergency services showed up, they found a young man standing in the street with the little boy in his arms. The…

Austin Police Officers responded to an auto-pedestrian collision in the 100 block of East Slaughter Lane in the middle of last month. Reports say that a white 1996 white Toyota sedan was stalled in the center east bound lane in the 100 block E. Slaughter Lane. Kyle was standing at the rear of the vehicle preparing to change a flat tire when he was struck by a 1999 dark blue Chevy Tahoe. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene….

German Robert Koch Institute reported in July that 852 patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome were identified who had come down with the illness though the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria – including six confirmed cases in the U.S. resulting in one death. The study concluded that contaminated raw sprouts from one farm in Germany are the likely source of the outbreak, and that the farm had been closed. The sprouts produced there are no longer in restaurants or store shelves…