Building design and engineering safety aren't huge issues to most people, but I'm willing to bet they will be now for a South Dakota high school wrestler named Mike McCormish. The Madison...
Although the snow has been here-and-then-gone-again in Michigan this year, it is still winter sports season. Skiing, snowboarding and other winter activities are fun but they can spell serious...
It's taboo to talk about age, but age-related health conditions are a serious problem for road safety. There are plenty of jokes about older drivers and while these can be offensive, there is...
The other day, while standing in line at the pharmacy counter at a local hospital, I overheard a scary conversation between a case manager and a medical staffer. While waiting for the patient she...
If you've ever taken a prescription sleep aid the night before, you may experience that drowsy-can't-shake-the-zzz's feeling the next morning. The Food and Drug Administration is so...
You face a bigger penalty if you are an obese woman on trial. According to a recent study conducted by Yale University, male jurors tend to be harsher to obese women compared to their leaner...
Amongst all the tragic news about school safety, a U.S. News World and Report study revealed that there may be succesful methods to keeping kids safe as they travel to and from school. After...
Abuse of the powerful painkiller Oxycontin has gotten so bad in Kentucky that the drug has earned the name of heroin of the hills. Kentucky officials have struggled for years to stem the problem,...
Junior Seau's death is yet another in a long list of football players that have been diagnosed with CTE, or traumatic brain injury associated with their brutal profession. When news of...
The other day I wrote about a nurse who refused to get the flu shot and was fired for violating the hospital's requirement that she do so. Although that nurse has a right to refuse the shot,...