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(Scoboco) Here’s a scary thought: dangerous medication mixups could begin at your doctor’s office. The FDA put out a warning today that they’ve received reports of mixups between similarly-named drugs that do very different things. The FDA urges patients and caregivers to know what the drug they’re supposed to be taking looks like, and alert medical providers if the drug that they receive looks different. The most prominent example that the FDA cited are the drugs Brintellix and Brilinta. Both are relatively new, and dispensed under their very similar brand names. Brintellix is an antidepressant, and Brilinta is a blood thinner. The FDA knows of 50 incidents where one drug has been dispensed instead of the other, but none yet where a patient has been harmed. Some mixups occurred when pharmacists made an error, confusing the two drugs. Some others began back in the doctor’s office, when a provider went to type an e-prescription into a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) syste...

( Víctor Gutiérrez Navarro ) You might remember Hello Barbie , a wifi-enabled smart doll that lets children hold conversations with their Barbie dolls…after that speech is recorded, transmitted to product creator ToyTalk, converted to text, and the answer is sent back to Barbie. While the idea of a doll that can hold a conversation is interesting, there are a lot of other products out there that want to chat with your kids. The company behind the voice functions of Hello Barbie, ToyTalk, makes its own apps, which it calls “interactive storytelling.” They release an app today called “Thomas and Friends Talk to You,” which is exactly what it sounds like. In case you’re worried that the app is eavesdropping on your toddler and analyzing every word she says, ToyTalk made sure to explain to a reporter from Fast Company that the app, like the doll, is only listening when you press the “speak” button. One challenge with the “Thomas” app, aimed at a younger audience, was redesigning that ...

To be honest, we had no idea that you could buy Hanes underwear (and socks, shirts, etc) from the Hanes website, mostly because we’d never really thought look at the Hanes website. But if you have been shopping at Hanes.com — and potentially at other sites in the Hanes Brands catalog — some of your information may have been compromised. A Consumerist reader forwarded us the above e-mail from HanesBrand exec David Thompson, letting customers know that the breach may have exposed personal info like name, address, phone number, along with the last 4 digits of the credit card on the account. The company says it has fixed the leak, but is taking questions via its customer service line at (800) 503-6681. We’ve reached out to Hanes to confirm this is genuine and to get an understanding of exactly which Hanes Brand sites were breached. The Hanes Brand umbrella includes a wide variety of apparel companies, including L’eggs, Playtex, Wonderbra, Champion, and Maidenform. by Chris Morran via...

( KTXS ) There’s perhaps nothing as refreshing in the heat of summer than splashing around in cool water. But one man said he was kept from the fun and relief a water park’s attractions can bring, after a worker told him he wasn’t allowed to go down slides because he had a prosthetic leg. An Abilene, TX man was at the park celebrating his 7-year-old’s birthday, and had arrived at the top of a water slide when he says the employee prevented him from going down the slide because of his prosthetic leg, reports KTXS . He walked back down and told a manager that he’d been visiting water parks across the state his entire life, and hadn’t had any issues before. “The manager said ‘I don’t make the policy at other places, and I can’t explain to you why they let you go down their slides,’” he said, quoting the manager. “’I don’t make the rules here, but I do enforce them so you can either abide by them or leave.’ ” After his mother posted about the experience on Facebook, a spokesman for t...

( Paul Thompson ) After a string of in-flight disturbances and accusations from a pilot’s union of poor safety standards , the Federal Aviation Administration has stepped up its scrutiny of budget carrier Allegiant Airlines. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FAA’s increasingly watchful eye regarding the Las Vegas-based airline comes after an incident last week in which a flight carrying 150 passengers declared an emergency in order to land at a closed airport because it was running dangerously low on fuel. To make matters worse, the airline had been informed that the airport was closed to passenger jets prior to takeoff and the company’s executives – Greg Baden, its vice president of operations, and Michael Wuerger, director of flight safety – were the ones manning the aircraft. The July 23 incident involved a plane flying from Las Vegas to the Fargo, ND, airport, which was closed for the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels aerobatic jets to practice. The airl...

( Miss Conduct ) So your phone company calls you and says there’s a new plan that can save your on your phone bill, or maybe to let you know that you’re being overcharged for your current service. So you go ahead and switch to the more sensible plan, only to find out weeks later that you’ve actually been switched over to a new service provider you’ve never heard of — and to a plan that costs more than your old one. This was a reality for dozens of people who complained to the FCC about a Michigan-based company that now faces a potential $2.4 million fine. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has filed a Notice of Apparent Liability against the Long Distance Consolidated Billing Company after investigating more than 70 complaints from consumers and state regulators about people who’d found their long-distance service provider had been switched to LDCB. A number of customers say that LDCB’s telemarketers pretended to represent the customer’s current telephone company when they made their sa...

All photos in this post come from Apple devices at Consumerist HQ. They’re the ones we didn’t throw out yet. People all over the world adore Apple’s phones, tablets, and computers, but they quite emphatically do not like the charging cords for those devices. People discuss the failings of these peripherals everywhere online, from product review pages to support forums to dedicated blogs full of frayed-cord gore. Yet there are avenues to complain about products that are obviously defective that could trigger a recall or other action. We started thinking about this issue based on an article about Lightning cords, the syncing and charging cords that debuted with the iPhone 5 in 2012, which are also used for iPads and iPods. Thomas Ricker points out the two-year lifespan and failure of his Lightning cords , even as the devices they power still work fine. Apple doesn’t consider cords part of the device that’s covered under warranty, and refers people who bought phones from their carri...