With the holiday season come parties, and with parties often comes alcohol. What appears to be the final chapter in the story of a terrible accident serves as a reminder that responsibility…
Republican presidential candidates love to deride so-called Obamacare as a socialist evil destined to lead to the demise of the republic; and so on. But jumping up and down and hurling criticisms…
Apparently, what we had thought were fictional vampires are actually out going to and fro in the world, causing real danger to living people. OK … Not really. But according to some…
In my last post, I highlighted the presence of arsenic in fruit juice and the need to be vigilant when it comes to what we feed ourselves and our families. In response, one reader offered the…
For more than two years, I have been documenting the dangerous – sometimes deadly – side effects of Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella. Despite these concerns, the FDA recently approved a generic form of…
Asia's biggest drugmaker, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., may face as many as 10,000 lawsuits in U.S. courts over allegations that its Actos diabetes drug causes bladder cancer. U.S. regulators…
Among the 35 new state laws that went into effect in North Carolina on December 1, 2011, is a new statute that establishes penalties for putting motorcycle riders in danger. It’s called The…
Dr. Oz sounded the alarm about unsafe levels of arsenic in apple juice a couple of months ago. Now Consumer Reports is jumping on the bandwagon. In September, Dr. Oz reported to viewers and…
Odds are you have a smartphone. And, since Android has the largest share of the smartphone market in the U.S., that smartphone probably uses Android. If so, you may be particularly…
The Federal Trade Commission just announced a proposed settlement with Facebook that requires the social media giant to obtain users’ consent before it makes changes to privacy…
The following news release from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), unfortunately, comes as no surprise to those of us who represent the victims of nursing home…
