Some clean-up jobs are tougher than others. When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig platform exploded and sank, leaking untold millions of gallons of oil and gas into the Gulf of…
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When a patient is in a coma, there is no proven treatment to help him regain consciousness. That is why doctors have considered these patients such a daunting medical challenge.…
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In a previous blog, we discussed the dangers of children using all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) or off-road vehicles (ORVs). The statistics for emergency room visits, deaths and health care-related costs in…
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Not every mother who takes an antidepressant during pregnancy starts doing so after she has become pregnant. Indeed, in many cases the mothers were taking antidepressants before they ever got…
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A heartbreaking new story has emerged in the ongoing case against the makers of the oral contraceptive Yaz. Rebecca Anderson-Hull has joined those filing lawsuits against Bayer Pharmaceuticals, claiming that…
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Our society is growing by leaps and bounds. Thus, the number of people who require treatment for various conditions, including depression, has increased as well. In 2007, CNN released a…
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Between February — when all existing Yaz suits were consolidated — and now, the number of cases on the docket in new Jersey has grown by a factor of ten.…
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The makers of Levaquin, the antibiotic increasingly associated with tendon and joint damage, have a new problem to contend with in the ongoing legal struggles associated with the medicine. A…
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Back in the 1940s, an epidemic of young boys' burns was acknowledged as a result of Gene Autry cowboy suits igniting because they were highly flammable. Soon after, an epidemic…
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“My daddy used to chase me up the stairs, but he can’t do it anymore because he took quinolones,” says the 5-year-old child of professor Alan Redd. Redd was once…
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