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Fox News
a day ago
- Health
- Fox News
Family hires attorney after man's tragic MRI accident involving 20-pound chain
The family of a man who died in a freak MRI-related accident in New York last week appears poised to file a lawsuit over the incident. Keith McAllister, 61, suffered three heart attacks after being pulled into the magnetic force of an MRI at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury last week, and died. He was wearing a 20-pound chain at the time of the incident. Now, his family has hired an attorney to "ensure accountability" stemming from the incident, according to the New York Post. The family has reportedly retained attorney Michael Lauterborn of Smith, Cheung and Lauterborn, PC. "This heartbreaking incident highlights the critical importance of safety protocols in medical imaging facilities," Lauterborn reportedly said. "The family and our legal team are dedicated to assisting the appropriate authorities in their investigation and in efforts to ensure accountability and prevent similar tragedies in the future." McAllister's widow, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, was undergoing a knee scan at the time of the accident. According to the couple's daughter, Samantha Bodden, the MRI technician allegedly left the room to track down McAllister and asked him for assistance, but did not warn him of the danger of wearing metal near the machine. After initial reports that McAllister entered the room on his own and was not authorized to be there, Bodden clarified that he was in fact invited in. "Several news stations are saying he wasn't authorized to be in the room when, in fact, he was because the technician went and brought him into the room," Bodden wrote. Bodden said she and Jones-McAllister attempted to free McAllister from the machine before finally calling the police for help. Fox News Digital reached out to Smith, Cheung and Lauterborn, PC and to Nassau Open MRI for comment.
CBS News
3 days ago
- Health
- CBS News
Rich's Ice Cream bars recalled in 23 states due to potential listeria contamination
Rich's Ice Cream is recalling 110,292 cases of frozen dessert products across 23 states due to potential listeria contamination, which can lead to serious illness. The recall, which was first initiated in June, was recently updated to a Class II threat, meaning the product "may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. According to federal heath officials, the products were distributed to Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. They were also sold in Nassau, Bahamas. The FDA did not include any reported illness in the recall announcement, but did mark the status as "ongoing." The following products, which are labeled with Lot #24351 through #25156, are included in the recall and should be disposed of: Customers can visit the Rich's Ice Cream website for more information on product labels. Listeria infections are caused by eating food contaminated with the bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes. Symptoms can include headaches, fevers, changes in your mental status, difficulty walking and even seizures. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that people may also experience a stiff neck and flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue. Some people are also at higher risk of severe cases, including those who are pregnant, newborns, adults 65 or older, and those with weakened immune systems.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to the police. The man, 61, had entered the MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at the Nassau Open MRI. The machine's strong magnetic force drew him in by the metallic chain, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department. He died on Thursday afternoon, but a police officer who answered the phone at the Nassau County police precinct where the MRI facility is located, said the department had not yet been given permission to release his name. The man was not supposed to be in the room, according to the police. His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him. Her husband was wearing a 20-pound (9kg) chain that he uses for weight training, an object they'd had a casual conversation about during a previous visit, according to the report. When he got close to her, she said the machine pulled him in. 'I said: 'Could you turn off the machine, call 911, do something, Turn this damn thing off!'' she recalled, as tears ran down her face. She said the technician helped her try to pull her husband off the machine but it was impossible. She said he suffered a series of heart attacks after he was freed from the machine. Earlier, police said the man suffered a "medical episode" and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. He was last described as being in critical condition, PIX11 reported. A 61-year-old man in New York was injured when he entered a room with an active MRI machine while wearing a metal chain around his neck. (stock image) (AFP/Getty) It wasn't the first New York death to result from an MRI machine. In 2001, a six-year-old child from Croton-on-Hudson was killed at the Westchester Medical Center when an oxygen tank flew into the chamber, drawn in by the MRI's 10-ton electromagnet. In 2010, records filed in Westchester County revealed that the family settled a lawsuit for $2.9m. MRI machines are designed to find ailments in the body using powerful magnets. The magnets create a strong magnetic field which is used in scanning bodies. The machines can then produce an image of a person's soft tissue that allow doctors to look for abnormalities, like tumors, or damage to internal organs, according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. 'The magnetic field extends beyond the machine and exerts very powerful forces on objects of iron, some steels, and other magnetizable objects; it is strong enough to fling a wheelchair across the room,' the institute explains. This is why MRI technicians are thorough when making sure that patients have no metal on their person – or inside their bodies – before they are imaged using an MRI machine. "The static magnetic field of the MRI system is exceptionally strong. A 1.5 T magnet generates a magnetic that is approximately 21,000 greater than the earth's natural field," according to the University of California, San Francisco's Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. The department noted in a write-up about the potential hazards of MRI machines that magnetic metal objects "can become airborne projectiles". Even small objects – like paper clips or hairpins – can reach a terminal velocity of 40mph when pulled by an MRI's magnets. In addition to the potential dangers from flying metal, MRI machine magnets can also erase credit cards, destroy phones, and shut down pacemakers. The Independent has reached out to Nassau Open MRI for comments. Solve the daily Crossword
Globe and Mail
3 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Market Factors: Investors should brace for volatility as stocks enter FOMO stage
In this edition of Market Factors we start with a strategist who is certain market turmoil is ahead and offers two strategies to sidestep it. I discuss the research process for a potential investment in air conditioning and the diversion covers an alarming increase in young-onset gastrointestinal cancers. Evercore ISI strategist Julian Emanuel is certain that markets have entered the FOMO stage of the rally and that investors should brace for volatility as a result. Mr. Emanuel's Sunday research report recounted phone calls from several market veterans of Y2K and the great financial crisis asking the strategist some variation of 'is it different this time?' for markets. For legendary fund manager Sir John Templeton (who I met in Nassau by the way), this question represents the most dangerous words in investing. Mr. Emanuel's report included a paragraph of self-congratulations for accurately predicting the strong market rally from the April lows – he had identified a degree of bearishness last seen in 2008, which indicated that selling was exhausted. He's not a permabear. Mr. Emanuel believes that equities have priced in more good news than what is going to occur. His informal surveys indicate a consensus view that tariff rates will decline from here despite the August 1 deadlines and that S&P 500 earnings will exceed current estimates. The rally has more room to run, according to Evercore, but volatility is set to make investors uncomfortable on the way up. Potential tariff news, seasonality (late summer and fall historically see volatility increase) and current high valuations all make for a skittish market to year end. Mr. Emanuel expects a sharp correction of between seven and 15 per cent in the coming weeks before the S&P 500 resumes its rally. He sees historical precedent in the sell-offs of 1999 and late 2021 – both served as warnings of a deeper downdraft to come. The strategist recommends two investment strategies that are likely to outperform during the coming volatility. The first, not viable to many investors, is an options straddle on the Nasdaq 100. This involves buying a call option and a put on the index and makes money with a significant move either up or down. Basically it's a bet on volatility. The second strategy is more broadly available: buying stocks with attractively low valuations and strong upwards earnings revisions. This is very likely to beat the benchmark during periods of market upheaval. Every cycle is different. In the current case, the steepening of the U.S. yield curve after a long period of inversion wasn't followed by an economic recession as history would suggest. As Mr. Emanuel notes, however, what never changes is the constant rotation between investor greed and fear that drives equities. The M.I.T. Technology Review published In defense of air conditioning and that, combined with a near-global heat wave and a Citi conference call wherein an analyst cited the low penetration rate of AC in Europe, had me looking for ways to invest in the residential cooling sector. I started with the dominant air conditioning unit sales companies in Europe. Japanese giant Daikin Industries has a good foothold in the region but it also sells a lot in the U.S. and that revenue is under threat of tariffs. Mitsubishi Electric is also a major player but an increase in European air conditioners is unlikely to push its stock higher because the company's too big. There are private companies that sell a lot of air conditioning in the European union – Vaillant Group, Viessmann Group (which recently partnered with Carrier Global), and Robert Bosch GmbH are important examples – that aren't much use to investors. Carrier Global is, of course, the sector giant but I don't have a handle on how much Europeans hate American companies right now, or whether Carrier products will be tariffed in Europe. I decided to dig a bit deeper and discovered there were different refrigerants used in air conditioners and they are produced by different companies. The refrigerants are boringly named R-410A, R-454B, R-32 and R-22 (Freon), and made by DuPont spinoff Chemours, Honeywell International, Arkema SA, Daikin and Mexichem, among others. The older refrigerants like R-410A and R-22 are being phased out in favour of R-32 and R-454B which are shown to be less damaging to the environment. Honeywell dominates R-454B production but it's too big for the stock to ever demonstrably benefit from rising air conditioner sales. Daikin makes R-32 and was the first to adopt it for home use. The result of all my reading and listening on the topic identified Daikin as the company to watch although I would have to do a lot more work before buying the stock. I'm certainly not going to buy it in the middle of a heat wave - I'm more of a buy-snow-shovels-in-August type of investor. No transaction resulted from my research but that's usually the case. The air conditioning theme provided a typical example of the pre-buying process. My impression was that younger generations ate healthier than their elders so news that not only are gastrointestinal cancers surging among millennials and Gen Z, but also that doctors have no idea why, was an unwelcome surprise. A report from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute detailed by Gizmodo found that colorectal cancers in particular were rising more quickly than other cancers. Admittedly we're using a loose definition of younger people here – those under 50 – but the findings are disturbing. Kimmie Ng, director of the Young Onset Colorectal Cancer Center at Dana Farber, reported that pancreatic, gastric and esophageal cancers were also on the rise. Pancreatic cancer caused by the daily consumption of 75 unfiltered Player's cigarettes killed my grandfather and was a primary reason I quit smoking, and also makes me think about the rise of vaping. The relationship between heavy alcohol consumption and esophageal cancer isn't quite as strong as lung cancer and cigarettes but hard alcohol is a major risk factor for esophageal cancer. The rise in this type of cancer seems incongruous with declining alcohol consumption among younger generations. The doctors at Dana Farber suggested that more study should be done on potential links between GI cancers and obesity, sedentary behaviour and diet. Looking for our updates on market movers, analyst actions, stock technicals, insider trades and other daily, weekly and monthly insight? Click here to visit our Inside the Market page. Billionaire investor Ken Fisher is offering up his thoughts on whether you should own crypto Tim Shufelt on the one big advantage everyday investors have against the pros, and why dividend investing isn't all that it's made out to be A comprehensive research report from David Rosenberg on how to profit from the next chapter in AI Retail sales Thursday is the only domestic economic release of wider importance in the next week. Economists expect a month-over-month decline of 1.0 per cent for the headline number and a drop of 0.2 per cent ex-autos. Canadian National Railway Co. reports earnings on Tuesday (C$1.877 per share expected). Rogers Communications Inc. (C$1.102) posts results Wednesday followed by First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (loss of US$0.049 expected) and Waste Connections Inc. (US$1.245) on Thursday. Friday sees Teck Resources Ltd. (C$0.256), Loblaw Companies Ltd. (C$2.323) and FirstService Corp. (US$1.398) reports. In Trumpland there's an early look at U.S. manufacturing PMI for July on Thursday and preliminary durable goods results for June – a drop of 10 per cent month over month is forecasted but a flat result is predicted for the ex-transportation reading – is out Friday. U.S. earnings season is picking up steam. Drinks behemoth Coca-Cola Co. ($0.833) reports Tuesday along with health care logistics leader IQVIA Holdings Inc. ($2.776). On Wednesday we get Freeport McMoRan Inc. ($0.446), Boston Scientific Corp. ($0.725), Tesla Inc. ($0.427) and Alphabet Inc. ($2.17). The reporting schedule Thursday includes a company maybe only I care about, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. ($0.484), because Dr Pepper is delicious and I want it to succeed. Blackstone Inc. ($1.093) is also posting results Thursday and Cadence Design systems Inc. ($1.575) reports next Monday. See our full earnings and economic calendar here
Telegraph
4 days ago
- Health
- Telegraph
Weight-lifter killed after being sucked into MRI machine
A man died after his 'large metallic chain' was pulled into an MRI machine as his wife underwent examination. Keith McAllister, 61, entered a medical room at the Nassau Open MRI clinic as his wife received a scan of her knee. The machine's strong magnetic force pulled him in by the 9kg metal weight training chain around his neck, Nassau County police said. Adrienne Jones-McAllister, his wife, said she had called out her husband's name to get him to help her off the table. She told News 12 Long Island.'I yelled out Keith's name, [shouting] Keith, come help me up. 'I saw the machine snatch him around and pull him into the machine. He died, he lost, he went limp in my arms.' She said her husband had suffered a series of heart attacks after he was freed from the MRI machine before being pronounced dead. Mrs Jones-McAllister said it was not the first time the couple had visited Nassau Open MRI on Long Island, US. She said: 'That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain. They had a conversation about it before.' McAllister was taken to hospital with critical injuries after the incident but died the next day. Police said the accident, which occurred on Wednesday, 'resulted in a medical episode' after an 'unauthorised' entrance into the medical examination. The magnetic fields of an MRI machine exert 'very powerful forces' on objects made of iron, some steels and other magnetic materials, according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The forces are so strong that they could fling a wheelchair across the room. MRI accidents are rare but can be fatal. New York's Department of Health said it was reviewing the incident. A spokesman said: 'MRI facilities in NY are not regulated as part of diagnostic and treatment centres, so are therefore not subject to routine inspections.'
