On December 14, 2009, Jacquelyn Donoghue, a 67 year-old nurse, was driving home with her husband John in their 2006 Toyota Prius on Highway 75 in Nebraska. Both were wearing their seat belts. Mrs. Donoghue was an experienced driver with an excellent driving record.

On February 9, 2010, Toyota Motor Corp. released an updated list of Toyota recalls and the affected vehicles.

In March 2009, Medtronic disclosed that at least 13 Sprint Fidelis patients may have died, including four patients whose deaths were related to efforts by doctors to surgically remove the product. In February 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FDA database includes at least 12 additional deaths allegedly linked to the recalled device.

A House committee’s chairman asks about similar sudden acceleration problems with the Tacoma truck. The questions come as the government also starts looking into brake problems on the Prius hybrid.

While new radiation technologies have brought benefits, they have also created new avenues for error in software and operation. A single error can be repeated in multiple radiation sessions for scores of patients, triggering new cancers and other injuries for patients.

Toyota’s recall troubles continue to grow, with the total number of vehicles affected by two recalls involving gas pedals growing to at least 5.3 million

Toyota Motor has now increased its second large recall in two months to over 5 million vehicles relating to a problem with accelerator pedals that can get stuck, causing vehicles to speed up unintentionally

On January 20, 2010, the New York Times ran a strong editorial on the late 2008 Coal Ash Spill in eastern Tennessee criticising the closed-door nature of resulting talks to create new national standards for the disposal of coal ash

600,000 drop side and non-drop side cribs manufactured by Dorel Asia SRL have been recalled due to the risk of suffocation to infants and toddlers.