InjuryBoard Grand Junction Archives

• Drug interactions growing problem for seniors

  Staff Writer | December 27, 2006 9:17 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  As the baby boomer population ages and the senior population continues to grow, drug interactions and overmedicating are becoming bigger problems for the oldest Americans. New services by workingcaregiver.com and others provide pharmacist tsupport to help manage medications among seniors.A pharmacist expert or specialist can help make sure a patient doesn't experience drug interactions, which...

• Move over law improves safety on side of road

  Staff Writer | December 18, 2006 4:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Colorado law enforcement officials and emergency personnel risk their lives every day when they're pulled over on the side of the road to clock speeders or help people. That's why Governor Bill Ownes and the state legislature passed the "move over law" two years ago.The law says that motorists must move vehicles over a lane when passing emergency personnel or police on the side of the road. This...

• Deadly accident kills wife, mother

  Staff Writer | December 11, 2006 1:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A married couple traveling to pick up their children from their grandmother's house ran off the road and into a ditch near midnight on Saturday, says a report from KJCT News 8 in Grand Junction. The motor vehicle accident involving a 1999 Jeep Cherokee killed the wife and injured the husband. The story says the wife was driving and not wearing her seatbelt. It's possible that excessive speed and...

• Local broadcasters try to block EchoStar

  Staff Writer | December 01, 2006 10:13 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  An article from today's Denver Post reports that local broadcasters in Colorado filed a motion to block EchoStar Communications' last-minute effort to circumvent a court ruling and continue to provide more than 900,000 DISH network customers with its distant-network signals. This is part of a seven-year legal battle in this copyright law case, the story says.Apparently today is the deadline for...