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Bayer Healthcare’s popular birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin are under fire for possible links to an increase in blood clots, reports say. Bayer cites two studies it commissioned as proof that the drugs are safe, but other studies have found that contraceptives similar to Yaz and Yasmin increase the risk of blood clots more than other types of birth control pills. Yasmin and Yaz are reportedly made with a synthetic progestin called drospirenone. But the synthetic progestin reportedly has…

Sergio Banda Rodriguez, 28, was killed in December last year as he drove westbound on East Ben White Blvd approaching East Riverside Drive. The Red Chevrolet Silverado in which Rodriguez was driving crossed three lanes and struck the passenger side of a Red Saturn Vue. The Vue was stopped at a red light at the intersection of East Riverside Dr. and East Bent White Blvd. Rodriguez continued westbound striking a utility pole in the center median of Ben White Blvd….

A recall by two separate companies for similar safety issues are under way as of earlier this month, reports say, for  drawstrings designs that apparently have become a strangulation issue. Although no accidents or injuries have been reported with regard to either of these products, both companies have evidently decided to heed the Consumer Products Safety Commission’s guidelines to prevent children from strangling themselves or becoming entangled on the strings of the jackets. The law actually dates back to May…

  A woman in Colorado was killed when the Toyota Camry in which she drove was a stuck by two errant wheels off a tractor trailer, which was traveling southbound on I-25 in Colorado, reports say. The wheels, which separated from the trailer, bounced over the median of the highway and struck the roof of the Camry, which was headed northbound on I-25. Reports say that the two wheels on the rear of the driver’s side of the semi-truck simply…

Austin’s last auto fatality occurred ten days before the end of the year, reports say, making 2010 a year with less than average roadway deaths – good news for the state’s capitol. Still, it was unfortunate for the 38-year-old white female who was walking across the southbound lanes of IH 35 South, the year’s last traffic-accident victim. As she walked across the freeway for unspecified reason, a grey Toyota traveling southbound on IH 35 struck her. She was then struck…