- David Mittleman | July 31, 2009 2:16 PM |
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Automobile Accidents Rockford, MI—58-year-old Alice Brownswell Phillips died on Sunday after her vehicle collided with another vehicle that was pulling out of a driveway on Alpine Avenue NW. Phillips, who was...
- David Mittleman | July 31, 2009 12:34 PM |
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MiscellaneousTanning bed users beware: international cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer-risk category—at par with arsenic and mustard gas....
- David Mittleman | July 31, 2009 10:59 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAn unlicensed Detroit woman caused a crash early Wednesday morning on the Ohio Turnpike outside of Cleveland. She was driving with three children in her minivan, and it appears that none of them...
- David Mittleman | July 30, 2009 2:31 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had just begun trial this Monday, when, in a bizarre twist of events, the family of Susan Bulger dropped their lawsuit. The Bulger family originally filed the lawsuit...
- David Mittleman | July 29, 2009 4:07 PM |
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MiscellaneousState Representative Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing), chair of the Michigan State House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, has taken aim at the office of state Attorney General and its current...
- David Mittleman | July 29, 2009 12:57 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to a new study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, texting is the most dangerous driving distraction and increases the risk of collision 23 times more than when a...
- David Mittleman | July 28, 2009 2:08 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeAccording to a New York Daily News investigation, medical staffers at city-run hospitals are going to great lengths to cover up medical mistakes, including falsifying hospital records. Specifically,...
- David Mittleman | July 28, 2009 7:46 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeAn Indiana couple has filed a lawsuit against a Fort Wayne-area health care provider, alleging that a failure to diagnose a blood clot in the woman’s leg ultimately resulted in the amputation...
- David Mittleman | July 27, 2009 8:07 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsOrinda, California—16-year-old Joseph Loudon died on May 23 during a house party. Investigators were not surprised to find alcohol in his blood, but were shocked to find high levels of...
- David Mittleman | July 26, 2009 2:00 PM |
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MiscellaneousWe purchase insurance policies to protect ourselves from life-altering calamities. For example, when we have a car accident, we feel safeguarded knowing that we can go to our auto insurance company...
- Devon Glass | July 26, 2009 1:27 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA Lake Odessa driver's failure to stop at a red light led to a car crash that sent three people to Pennock Hospital. James Knibbs Jr. drove through a red light at the intersection of North Broadway...
- David Mittleman | July 26, 2009 9:00 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAre you nervous about your new teenage driver hitting the streets in the family car? Susan Kessler may have the answer to solving some of your worries: put a temporary warning sign on the car.
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- David Mittleman | July 25, 2009 9:00 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeNot many people know the extent of avoidable mistakes that occur in hospitals and are never disclosed to the public. However, under laws that took effect last year in Virginia and a few years...
- Devon Glass | July 24, 2009 3:05 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Republican lawmakers are doing everything they can to stop health care reform, and one of their tactics is to site the “non-partisan” Lewin Group as a source of support against...
- David Mittleman | July 24, 2009 8:00 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
An elderly man in Winter Park, Florida eventually died after receiving two dental surgeries, during which, the dentist dropped two operating tools down the man’s throat.
The...
- David Mittleman | July 23, 2009 3:59 PM |
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MiscellaneousYou can hardly speak to someone without the ubiquitous Facebook coming up as a topic of conversation, especially if you’re in the “under 30” crowd. But the social networking site...
- David Mittleman | July 22, 2009 11:25 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
It’s like a test to see who will blink first: patients, who are injured as a result of medical malpractice, want justice for the pain and suffering they endure, while hospitals and...
- David Mittleman | July 21, 2009 2:55 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
Vincent Hereford died from sepsis—poisoning from the spread of toxins or bacteria into the body—at 44, leaving behind his wife and two teenage children. Despite her devastating loss,...
- Devon Glass | July 21, 2009 10:32 AM |
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MiscellaneousRick Scott, a name you might not have heard too commonly, if at all, is a name that everyone should be watchful of during this era of health care reform. He is much more conservative on the issue of...
- David Mittleman | July 20, 2009 4:57 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeI will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
Many of you probably recognize this famous quote as part of the English...
- David Mittleman | July 20, 2009 4:20 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Washtenaw County Circuit Court ended an ongoing legal battle last week that involved 500 female prisoners who alleged that they were sexually harassed and raped by Michigan prison guards during...
- David Mittleman | July 18, 2009 8:20 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsMany people are afraid of driving during the often brutal Michigan winters: maneuvering icy roads or navigating through snow storms so thick that you cannot see two feet in front of your windshield....
- David Mittleman | July 18, 2009 8:10 AM |
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Wrongful DeathTwo victims of a 2006 helicopter crash received just compensation after a Polk County, Iowa jury awarded $7.2 million to a cameraman’s widow and $4.2 million to the film producer of an eastern...
- David Mittleman | July 17, 2009 2:50 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsEndoscopic Technologies, Inc. or Estech recently settled a lawsuit for $1.4 million after the Food and Drug Administration accused the company of violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the...
- David Mittleman | July 16, 2009 11:40 AM |
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Miscellaneous
Horrifically, 200 to 300 graves at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois were dug up in an illegal scheme to make more money. According to the Cook County Sheriff, four employees of Perpetua...
- David Mittleman | July 15, 2009 4:30 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsGovernmental entities play an important role in our daily lives. Indeed, it is nearly impossible to go about one’s day without utilizing some type of governmental service. Occasionally, people...
- David Mittleman | July 15, 2009 1:55 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
A second Kentucky widow, Darla Marshall, has settled a lawsuit against the Illinois Veterans Affairs Hospital after her husband, James Marshall, died from a blood infection six days after a lymph...
- Devon Glass | July 14, 2009 4:45 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
Detroit police are searching for the driver of a white minivan who struck a 13-year-old boy and then drove away. The accident occurred last Thursday and the boy, Roger Beasley, died at...
- David Mittleman | July 14, 2009 11:06 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsRoche Holdings AG, the maker of the acne medication Accutane, is pulling the product from the U.S. market, citing “economic reasons”. However, juries have awarded at least $33 million in...
- David Mittleman | July 13, 2009 5:12 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsHolland, MI—Morgan DeHaan, a 19-year-old mother and her 6-week-old daughter, Hannah DeHaan, were killed in a car accident on Thursday after the woman’s SUV rolled through a stop sign and...
- David Mittleman | July 13, 2009 1:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousIt’s painful enough to endure an injury or disease: the recovery time can be long, you may lose out on time with your friends and family, and all you want to do is get better. But what happens...
- David Mittleman | July 12, 2009 12:45 PM |
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Miscellaneous
Jumping on the trampoline is a popular summer activity for children. However, many parents don’t realize the danger that lies in allowing children to jump unsupervised or by...
- David Mittleman | July 12, 2009 12:44 PM |
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MiscellaneousJumping on the trampoline is a popular summer activity for children. However, many parents don’t realize the danger that lies in allowing children to jump unsupervised or by allowing more than...
- Devon Glass | July 12, 2009 12:40 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsSpeeding seems to have led to an increase in accidents in Kawkawlin Township. Bay County Sherriff's deputies are investigating an accident that took place on Thursday, July 9, 2009. The accident...
- David Mittleman | July 12, 2009 12:20 PM |
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MiscellaneousCanton Township, MI—five teenagers were killed by an Amtrak train while travelling in a car on Thursday after the driver, 19-year-old Dan Broughton, sped around a lowered railroad crossing...
- David Mittleman | July 11, 2009 10:00 AM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe Food and Drug Administration is conducting an investigation of arthroscopic shavers after receiving reports from several manufacturers of the shavers that human tissue remained in some of these...
- David Mittleman | July 10, 2009 4:21 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
In a 4-3 decision, the new Gang of Justice at the Michigan Supreme Court stood up to conservative Justice Robert Young and ruled that backbreaking domestic work is, in fact, work.
Michigan...
- David Mittleman | July 10, 2009 8:56 AM |
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Miscellaneous
How often have you heard someone joke about the woman who spilled coffee on herself at McDonald’s, sued the fast food giant, and won? She won a jury verdict of $2.9 million dollars (which...
- David Mittleman | July 10, 2009 8:03 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeA report issued last week by consumer watchdog group Public Citizen indicates that medical malpractice payouts reached all-time lows in 2008. Unfortunately, the decrease in malpractice payments does...
- David Mittleman | July 09, 2009 8:45 AM |
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Miscellaneous
The Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 today to deny the appeal of a Detroit 911 dispatcher who was accused of intentional infliction of emotional distress after she questioned a gunshot victim...
- David Mittleman | July 08, 2009 9:06 AM |
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Miscellaneous
The Food and Drug Administration recently recalled nonfat dry milk because the milk is apparently tainted with salmonella. Even if you aren’t a fan of the product, nonfat dry milk is an...
- David Mittleman | July 08, 2009 7:43 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeWhen we think of hospital workers, we often think of physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, and technicians. These are the people we see face-to-face during a stay in the hospital, and each of them...
- David Mittleman | July 07, 2009 10:00 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada are warning consumers not to purchase two types of energy drinks packaged in test-tube vials because of an apparent case of tampering: two vials...
- David Mittleman | July 06, 2009 2:19 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg, a monorail train operator at Walt Disney World, was killed after two monorail trains collided early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of the park. Five park...
- David Mittleman | July 05, 2009 10:00 AM |
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Workplace InjuriesScott Skirpan, a 50-year-old ex-Marine, lost his legs five days into his job as a truck spotter at a Pennsylvania landfill after a Caterpillar bulldozer backed up and rolled him over, crushing his...
- David Mittleman | July 04, 2009 10:00 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsTuesday—a federal advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration voted 20-17 to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, both of which combine a narcotic with acetaminophen. The two...
- David Mittleman | July 03, 2009 10:00 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsA recent study conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital revealed that a bioengineered protein used during spinal fusion procedures to correct neck pain caused more complications in patients...
- Devon Glass | July 02, 2009 1:37 PM |
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Automobile Accidents
Holland—Kevin Babcock, a 44-year-old man, hit and killed Curtis Jacobs, a 19-year-old bicyclist, and seriously injured Christian Van Wyngarden, also 19, on Saturday on U.S. 31 near Holland....
- David Mittleman | July 02, 2009 10:00 AM |
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MiscellaneousTeen prescription drug abuse is on the rise. In fact, according to a 2008 study conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, nearly one in five—that’s 4.5...
- Devon Glass | July 01, 2009 6:58 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsTuesday—a 37-year-old White Pigeon man ran a stop sign and caused a two-car collision that injured him and five other people while attempting to get to the scene of a motorcycle accident that...
- David Mittleman | July 01, 2009 2:27 PM |
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MiscellaneousInsurance companies have been in the spotlight recently, particularly with President Obama’s proposals to reshape the health care industry. Millions of Americans are without health insurance,...
- David Mittleman | July 01, 2009 10:10 AM |
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Automobile Accidents
You're driving on the highway. You are going past, or being passed, by another vehicle. It's your natural reaction to glance over to look at the driver. That's when you see it: a teenager’s...