A recent report from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has provided the most exhaustive and in-depth look at the failures of governments worldwide to ensure the safety of medical devices. It presents the case that, “health authorities across the globe have failed to protect…
Los Angeles police have uncovered a large collection of homemade pornography inside the storage unit of disgraced ex-USC gynecologist George Tyndall, who has bee accused of molesting hundreds of students. The Los Angeles Times reports that within the “trove of pornography,” are pictures of nude wom
The link between talc and cancer has suddenly become easier to prove. A shocking new report by Reuters indicates that small amounts of asbestos, a known carcinogen, have been lurking in some of the company’s talc — the main ingredient of Johnson & Johnson’s popular baby…
Deer hunting season recently began in many states around the country, and with it, another onslaught of crossbow injuries resulting in claims against Barnett Outdoors, LLC. Although Barnett was forced to place “finger reminders” on their crossbows some years ago, many of these ‘reminders’ are…
This past Wednesday, local Houston law enforcement officials did something that was unprecedented. They obtained a search warrant and raided the headquarters of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston looking specifically for the secret archives. The police action in Texas was taken by the Montgomery Coun
Once again, Governor Jerry Brown has failed survivors of sexual abuse in California. As he did in 2013, Brown vetoed a bill that would have provided opportunities for sex abuse survivors in California to seek justice in the courts. The bill, written by Assemblywoman…
Facing a firestorm of public scrutiny and increased media attention, archdioceses and dioceses in California continue to under report the number of priests who’ve faced sexual abuse allegations in the past and present. Some bishops have argued that priests who don’t belong to their diocese…
What happened in Pennsylvania doesn’t necessarily stay in Pennsylvania. As I suspected, some of the priests named in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report have ties to California. Priests accused of sexual abuse of minors were often transferred to other dioceses so that they would go…
For many survivors of Catholic priest sexual abuse, it has been a tortuously long wait but finally it seems the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania is going to do something for them. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia along with the Dioceses of Allentown, Harrisburg, Greensburg and Scranton…
The Food and Drug Administration has announced a recall for the blood pressure drug Irbestaran, after discovering the drug may contain a N-Nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA). The chemical is a known carcinogen that is used as a stabilizer in gasoline and rocket fuel. NDEA is also a byproduct…
The past Sunday, journalists from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe published a collaborative piece concerning the US Catholic bishops’ response to the sexual abuse crisis roiling the Catholic Church since the 2002 meeting in Dallas where they proposed the Dallas Charter, the blueprint…
On Thursday October 18, 93 additional women filed lawsuits against the University of Southern California University claiming the school purposefully concealed sexual abuse by former campus gynecologist George Tyndall. This brings the total number of Tyndall accusers to about 500. The following day,…
