What You Need to Know About Viagra and Skin Cancer
Viagra is once again a hot topic, and not because of the remarkable powers of the little blue pill. With hundreds of lawsuits flooding the justice system, a link between the erectile dysfunction medication and aggressive skin cancer is becoming more and more apparent. The lucky victims are filing their own lawsuits against Pfizer; the…
Read MoreThe VA Stopped Reporting Healthcare Performance Information
After a short break, the national spotlight is back on the shoddily run Department of Veterans Affairs. USA Today recently reported that the agency illegally stopped sharing quality of care information with the Department of Health and Human Services over the summer. This new failure prevents access to healthcare information that could mean the difference…
Read MoreThe True Cost of Staying Clean: Carcinogens in Soap
The amount of soap you use every day could affect how much longer you live. Soap is everywhere; hand soaps, shampoo, bar soaps, dish soap, dishwasher and washing machine detergent are just a few of the products that everyone uses on a daily basis. With the sheer volume of products on the market, it would…
Read MoreThree Commercial Trucks Involved in Fiery I-77 Pileup
Road construction on I-77 in Chester County created stop-and-go traffic conditions that resulted in a fiery six-car pileup in early September. The multi-vehicle wreck closed the highway for more than 8 hours while first responders worked to literally put out fires and save more than a dozen victims. The accident was so large that the…
Read MoreSmaller Commercial Trucks Can Cause Fatal Accidents, Too
Truck accidents are always serious. The underlying cause varies; truck drivers can be distracted, fatigued, drunk or unlicensed, but the overriding cause is always the same. Big trucks cause big accidents. Commercial vans and small trucks can outweigh passenger vehicles by almost 10 times, while fully loaded tractor-trailers can be 40 times heavier than a…
Read MoreSamsung Screwed Up a Smartphone AND a Recall
In case you missed it, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially recalled 1 million Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after dozens of the devices caught fire while charging. The defective devices caused a reported 92 instances of overheating so far, of which 55 involved property damage and 26 involved burns. Unfortunately, these problems…
Read MoreMan Paralyzed After Medical Errors Highlights “Systems Problem”
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in this country. Sometimes those errors are so egregious, such an obvious case of medical malpractice, that it is hard to understand how they could have occurred in the first place. Take the heartbreaking case of August de los Reyes. He is the design head for…
Read MoreWhy You Might Not Know When Your Implant Is Defective
Headlines are made when major medical device or drug manufacturers issue massive recalls that affect hundreds of thousands of people. The US Food and Drug Administration handles the announcement of every recall differently, regardless of how many people were affected. However, most medical recalls have a common theme; the burden of informing patients is generally…
Read MoreWhat You Need To Know About South Carolina’s Dram Shop Law
Drunk drivers are a danger to everyone on the road, including themselves. For that reason, many states pass what are known as “dram shop” laws, or “social host” liability laws. In essence, dram shop and social host liability statutes say that if an establishment (like a bar or restaurant) or a person (like a party…
Read MoreVA Department Faces Three Times More Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Than Just Five Years Ago
In 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs paid out $98 million for medical malpractice claims. Just four years later in 2015, that number rose to a truly staggering $338 million. The VA downplayed the number, but the abysmal care that veterans receive at the hands of the mismanaged agency coupled with the massive spike in…
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