Two people from the St. Louis area lost their lives in an accident in Mississippi on Monday. The St. Louis Today reported that Clifton Collins and Elmo Davis were driving with two other people when the SUV they were in veered off the road and overturned. It is reported that the driver may have dozed […]
The FDA is looking into metal on metal hip replacements due to the number of complaints and lawsuits that have been filed. These replacements tend to have more problems than just those you may expect when having a joint replaced. The FDA says that part of the problem is that metallic debris can come off […]
The Kansas City Star reported on June 11, 2012 that a Missouri judge has approved a $3,000,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit brought in Jackson County. The parents of the victim were the recipients of the reward. Their son who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic was shot at a gas station convenience store by […]
A Massachusetts man suffered second degree burns when the sunscreen he had just put on caught fire. He had applied banana boat sunscreen to his body and then walked over to his outdoor grill that was lit. The sunscreen caught fire at that time and he said he never experienced pain like that in his […]
A Massachusetts teenager has been convicted of vehicular homicide in a case that has put texting while driving on the front page. In February of 2011 he was driving and hit a truck head on killing the driver of that vehicle. The teenager had denied texting at the time he was driving but the police […]
A study recent conducted in Australia has looked at the incidence of birth defects in children conceived with help from fertility technologies available. The study compared regular childbirth statistics and those of couples who chose In vitro Fertilization (IVF) and those who chose intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). IVF is the combining of sperm with the […]
A bipartisan sponsored amendment has been submitted as part of The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. This amendment wants to standardize procedures to prove people given psychotropic drugs for reasons other than what they are usually used for are made aware of their risks and side effects. In the past these drugs […]
The CDC website has an application that an injured person can access to estimate what their injury will cost them. They have updated work loss estimates and have corrected unit medical cost estimates for injuries treated at emergency rooms for patients released after treatment. Average costs for fatal injuries listed by body part involved are […]
On May 10 the FDA announced an alert about a medical procedure called “liberation therapy” which is used to relieve chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. The “treatment” is believed by some to have a positive effect on those suffering from multiple sclerosis. The theory is that blood and spinal fluid cannot properly drain from the brain […]
Last year alone State Farm Insurance paid more than $109 million on more than 3,500 injury claims involving dog bites. According to the Insurance Information Institute more than $470 million in dog bite claims were paid by all insurance companies in 2011. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.7 million people are […]
