DID YOU KNOW MORE THAN 800,000 HERNIA REPAIRS ARE PERFORMED IN THE U.S. EACH YEAR? YET THERE HAVE BEEN 50,000+ LAWSUITS IN THE U.S. RELATED TO HERNIA MESH PROCEDURES AND THE NUMBER CONTINUES TO RISE. The most common adverse events following hernia repair with mesh…
Just weeks after a Desoto County, MS bus wreck killed 2 and left dozens more injured, tragedy struck the Mid-South again. This time the victim is a 9 year old boy from Memphis named Kameron Johnson. His friends and family called him Kam Kam, according…
Did you know that 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, yet 35% of them admit to still doing it anyway? That’s according to a recent AAA poll. While those are nationwide numbers, the statistics in Tennessee aren’t any better. On…
A former top executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc., an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company, pleaded guilty in a Boston courthouse in late November to bribing doctors to prescribe the company’s strongest opioid medication. The former executive, Alec Burlakoff, was Insys’ vice president of sales and i
According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), there are currently 51,000 vacant truck driver positions open in the U.S. This can be attributed to a number of factors, including the large number of older truckers retiring, millennials’ general lack of interest in trucking, and the…
In the beginning of November, Leapfrog released its semiannual Hospital Safety Grades for each state in the United States. Tennessee ranked in the middle of the pack, ranking 20th amongst the 50 states for the number of hospitals that received “A” grades. On an alarming…
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
NBC News investigative reporters sat down with Andrew Chappell a few weeks ago at his Missouri home to talk about his Biomet M2a hip replacement nightmare. The reporters wanted to know why seven nations, including Australia, Germany, and Great Britain, knew about serious problems with the…
Distracted drivers caused 54,302 crashes, injuries, and wrongful deaths in North Carolina in 2016. If you travel on the streets or highways, you are at risk for being injured or killed by someone who is more interested in their phone than their driving. On the…
Recently, researchers at the University of California confirmed that head injuries can lead to serious brain disorders in the future. This study was the first to examine individual cell types’ reactions to brain trauma, which was done through the observation of 6,000 individual cells in…
Just two days before Thanksgiving, Massachusetts became the fifth state to open store doors — two, in fact — for the sale of legalized recreational marijuana. The stores, which are located in Leicester and Northampton, each feature a wide selection of marijuana products available for…
On Monday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a plan that will overhaul the way medical devices are tested and approved. The changes are supposed to force companies to base their newest device designs on more recent technology. The FDA’s sudden announcement came just…
