Name: Defenders: Tracking failures in medical devices
Uploaded: 12/6/2019 4:24:36 AM
Duration: 200
Description: Lawmakers are proposing changes to make it easier to track medical devices.

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Taxpayers paid billions for faulty medical devices. Now, it could become easier to track them

Rep. Lloyd Doggett and a group of bipartisan lawmakers push for identifying numbers to be added to medical forms to prevent problems and save taxpayers money.

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More than 100 inmates have been in local jails for longer than a year. Local district attorneys say they want to do better.

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Nearly a quarter of all vape-related injuries in Texas are found in teens

Testimony heard in the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services showed minors make up 22% of the injuries.

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Clearing the Air | The local retailers selling vape products to minors

The KVUE Defenders found local businesses sold vaping products to minors. The State will pay police cash to do undercover stings.

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The $1-per-year lease with Planned Parenthood captured the attention of lawmakers – but that's not the only organization renting City property for next to nothing.

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Texas businesses face thousands of dollars in environmental violation fines

The state's environmental agency cited 17 Texas entities for violating regulations. Two of them are located in Central Texas.

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UT says it's changing its system for tracking sexual misconduct complaints. Some remain skeptical

UT Austin stores sexual misconduct complaints in individual files, rather than a centralized database. School officials say that will change in January.

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How to file harassment complaints at school: Defenders discover it can be difficult

All school districts in our area stand against discrimination, but the way to find their policies and procedures for filing discrimination complaints can improve.

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FDA blasted at medical device hearings

Doctors and patients had strong words about medical device dangers after two days of hearings in Washington, D.C.

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How prosecutors’ 23-year-old notes undid a man’s child sex abuse conviction.

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Hate crimes more than double in Texas for 2018, according to FBI data

Hate crimes in the state of Texas jumped from 192 in 2017 to 457 in 2018, according to data reported voluntarily by local and state law enforcement agencies.

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Dell Med School, The Refuge Ranch team up to fight domestic minor sex trafficking

The Refuge for DMST is collaborating with the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Med School to improve the lives of young survivors.

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