According to a bulletin recently issued by AARP, hospitals can be very dangerous places. One highlighted statistic notes: The number of patients who die each year from preventable…
Distracted driving caused by using a cell phone has been big news recently. Chapel Hill, N.C., became the first town in the nation to pass a complete ban on cell phone use while driving, as we…
Daily aspirin therapy may lower the risk of heart attack and stroke, but two new studies suggest that such therapy may also reduce the risk of many cancers and prevent some tumors from spreading….
On Monday, Beef Products, Inc., the maker of the derisively named pink slime beef ingredient, suspended production of the product at three of its four plants in the wake of a negative social…
For women, new guidelines for Pap tests to detect cervical cancer are age dependent as opposed to the former gold standard of one test per year for women over the age of 21. Several groups had…
The town council of Chapel Hill, N.C., voted Monday, March 26, to ban all cell phone use while driving in the town limits – including the use of hands-free devices such as headsets. The…
(UPDATE: Cell phone ban – including hands-free use – passes) As the home of the Tar Heels, Chapel Hill gets plenty of national attention. Still, it hurts like heck that the Kansas Jayhawks…
In 2009 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson decided to sell all the hip implants in its inventories…
The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) wants to outlaw pedestrians who are distracted around their TRAX and FrontRunner trains in an effort to protect such people from themselves. The move is in…
House GOP tort reformers have been at it again with their recent push for a vote on H.R. 5, a bill mandating federal level caps on medical malpractice awards across the board of all 50 states….
Chapel Hill narrowly missed claiming another national title Monday night. Hold on there, hoops fans – I am talking about driving, but not on a basketball court. This event took…
Fosamax is a drug from a category of drugs called bisphosphonates. Bisphosphonates are used to treat and prevent osteoporosis and bone loss, something that many women, and even some men…
