Recent studies indicate that cancer is surpassing heart disease as a leading cause of death across the United States. Breast cancer is a common form of cancer, affecting 1 out of every 8 women.
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…
When a patient with an already weakened immune system acquires an infection in the hospital, devastating consequences can result. Luckily, a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study team recently revealed that the rate of this happening is decreasing. Today, approximately 3.2 percent of
A recent incident involving a self-driving car in California has reemerged concerns about the safety of testing these vehicles on public roads. When a vehicle abruptly moved into the lane that the self-driving car was in, the test driver took control of the car to…
Science Magazine is reporting about conflicts of interest in medicine that remind us it is a business! You’ve heard reports that doctors are compensated, in many cases in the millions, by the very drug and device makers whose products they recommend. It is almost impossible…
There has been a sharp increase of U.S. lawsuits alleging Monsanto’s weed killers such as Roundup and Ranger Pro brands are causing cancer. The increase comes after August 10, 2018, when a San Francisco jury awarded $289 million in a landmark case claiming that Roundup…
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…
Yet again, safety concerns over Uber have arisen—this time the rideshare company has filed an application with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to continue testing self-driving vehicles on public roads. This is the first such request since March 2018 death of a pedestrian who was…
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…
Question One on the ballot in Massachusetts ballot has been highly controversial in the weeks leading up to the midterm election due to the impact it could have on the state’s healthcare system. If approved, Question One will establish a nurse-to-patient ratio requirement in hospitals—meaning…
On October 29, 2018, Copeley Johnson & Groninger PLLC filed a civil complaint against Massage Envy – both its franchise corporation and a local franchise – on behalf of two separate victims of sexual abuse by a massage therapist at the Massage Envy facility in…
