A late Monday afternoon outing on Bear Lake for the Capener family and two family friends turned deadly when their ski boat capsized, dumping all on board into the chilly lake water. Dr. Lance Capener, 46, was on the boat with his wife Kathryn, 42,…
Well, that didn’ t take long. The New York Times is reporting that the Amtrak train that derailed on Tuesday night was traveling at least 100 miles an hour through a sharp curve in an urban area. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),…
So far, the answer is that authorities do not yet know. Here’s what we do know. This Amtrak train crash happened on a stretch of northbound track in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia near a bend in the track close to Frankford Avenue and…
Boston Scientific, a manufacturer of pelvic mesh implants, disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that has agreed to pay $119 million to settle nearly 3,000 cases and claims to women who say they were injured by the company’s vaginal mesh…
There is a common automobile dealer transaction which creates a yo yo situation (also called a spot delivery). How does this work? Let’s say a husband and wife go to the dealership on a Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. They meet with a salesman and…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with the assistance of the Department of Health and Human Services, American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics released an informational brochure to assist doctors with coming to a mutual understanding with…
The man who became a symbol of the Catholic Church’s failure to stem the sexual abuse crisis that has plagued it has resigned. In a news bulletin the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of the bishop of Kansas City, Robert W.…
A series of recent articles in The New York Times, including a hard-hitting editorial (Conflict of Interest at the F.D.A., April 13, 2015), uncovers how the Food and Drug Administration has been reluctant to regulate popular health supplements that were revealed to contain dangerous ingredients.…
On March 24, it was announced that Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary had reached a settlement in a bellwether trial over their transvaginal mesh devices. That settlement came shortly after a California jury delivered a $5.7 million verdict against J&J’s Ethicon over their Gynecare TVT…
The National Safety Council has dubbed April Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and distracted driving has become a primary focus of a number of safety campaigns. One of the most persuasive and effective voices on the topic is the venerable EndDD campaign to raise awareness of…
I’ve written recently about poor air quality issues in the basins of northern Utah and, ultimately, the Utah Legislature’s abject failure in crafting policy or legislation to deal with the issue. It happened again this year, with no meaningful bills aimed at cleaning up Utah’s…
