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5/29/2006 10:32:00 PM | 'A Little Sting' Can Become a Debilitating Injury 
=(0) This relates a personal experience of nerve injury to the arm caused by routine drawing of blood for testing. After more than a year of pain and disability in the arm, the author finally found a doctor who was familiar with the risk and surgery was performed. Some disability remains, and the author cautions that if you suspect a blood dra...
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5/25/2006 5:11:00 PM | Parexel Drug Trial Had Shortfalls, UK Probe Finds =(0) The UK Health Regulator has issued a report on the drug-testing fiasco that occurred in London this year. Six men suffered multiple organ failure and became extremely ill after taking an experimental drug. One remains in hospital, recovering, three months after taking the drug. The report says that there was no errors in the manufacture ...
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4/12/2006 3:16:00 PM | SAT Scoring Debacle Prompts Apology by College Board President =(0) The President of the College Board has apologized for the scoring errors on the October 2005 SAT Exams. Over 5000 students are known to be affected; while a few received higher grades than they should have, most were downgraded, some by as much as 25%. This may have drastically altered many of these students' lives, regarding college admi...
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4/8/2006 5:15:00 PM | First Suit Over SAT Scoring Errors =(0) A Minnesota high school student has become the first to file a lawsuit against the College Board and Pearson Educational Measurement, concerning the scoring errors that occurred on this year's SAT exams. The intent is to make this into a class action suit. The errors are blamed on quality control issues, the result of a sharply increased ...
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3/25/2006 9:22:00 AM | College Board Admits Hundreds of Grading Errors on SAT Exam =(0) Thousands of SAT tests taken in October 2005 were incorrectly graded, according to the College Board which administers the tests. While some (about 600) received higher grades than they should have, many more (over 4400) were downgraded. This is expected to have a devastating effect on many students, who may be denied entry to the school of their c...
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3/23/2006 2:36:00 PM | Baby Gender Mentor: A Suit Is Born =(0) Acu-Gen has been marketing a Baby Gender Mentor product where you are supposedly able to identify the gender of your baby as early as five weeks. A class action lawsuit was recently filed against the company because the testing appears to be inaccurate as many women have had ultrasounds confirming their baby to be the opposite sex of that identifie...
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3/14/2006 11:19:00 PM | Case Involving Errors in Teacher Test Is Settled =(0) A class action lawsuit was filed by hundreds of teachers who received incorrect test scored on their teacher licensing exams from Educational Testing Servce (ETS). ETS has now agreed to pay over $11 million in damages to settle the case, compensating individuals who lost job opportunities, potential pay and sufered after receiving the bad test scor...
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3/1/2006 11:42:00 AM | Man sues former employer over drug test =(0) A West Virginia man is suing his former employer for the method by which he was randomly drug tested and for what he claims was a false postive drug test result. James Cottle cooperated in a mandatory drug test prior to his employment with S.W. Jack Drilling Company and was asked to participate in another, random drug test at a job site, that was p...
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