Massachusetts—a former dentist was accused of placing paper clips in his patients’ mouths instead of the appropriate stainless steel posts used in root canal procedures so that he could…
A few weeks ago I wrote about medical residency programs accepting pharmaceutical industry gifts and the ethical concerns that The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine has about the…
Officials at the Pentagon are becoming increasingly concerned over new data that indicates a spike in the abuse of prescription painkillers by troops. According to the latest data, military doctors…
Mason, MI—Daniel Burwell pleaded no contest to drunk driving charges after he ran through a red light at 60 mph last year, killing a mother and her son. The 28-year-old man appeared in…
A three car accident in Hastings sent three women to Pennock Hospital earlier this month. The crash took place on M-37 at Clinton Street. A vehicle traveling north on M-37 driven by Brandi Young,…
Failing stock markets may cause more damage than you would expect, and I’m not just talking about to your portfolio. In fact, researchers at Duke University recently discovered a link between…
Becky McClain used to work for Pfizer in a laboratory that conducted genetic research. But now she’s suing the pharmaceutical company, alleging that she suffers suffer from intermittent…
Three federal judges delivered a fatal blow last Friday to parents involved in the anti-vaccine movement. Specifically, the three judges ruled in three separate cases that thimerosal, an…
University of Michigan professor Henry Greenspan hit it on the nose with his editorial on March 10, 2010 in the Lansing State Journal. Professor Greenspan is right to state that Michigan’s…
Hudson, Michigan—in what could be a landmark decision, a jury has ordered the school district to pay $800,000 to a student who underwent years of bullying by his classmates. According to the…
Des Moines, Iowa—a blind pedestrian that was struck and injured in a 2008 bus crash alleges in his lawsuit that the bus driver that hit him worked an “unsafe number of hours” in…
Imagine growing up in the same town for your whole life, and then abruptly being thrown out for reasons unbeknownst to you. Sallie Sanders, now 60 years old, was that little girl who grew up in…