Existe un gran problema en los campos de agricultura en el Estado de Florida. Sin embargo no se aprecia en toda su magnitud pues los afectados directamente son agricultores inmigrantes quienes no hablan Ingles. Ellos recogen nuestras fresas y tomates. Ellos se quiebran la espalda y trabajan de sol a sol por salarios debajo del mÃnimo. Ellos viven en casas rodantes en estados muy precarios ni...
A professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin has conducted a new study which showed that shocks from Tasers cause the hearts of healthy pigs to stop beating. This finding contradicts the previous research financed by, guess who, Taser International. The new study took into account that pigs have a thick layer of muscle insulating their hearts from their skin, so the...
Do not share your home with a portable generator. Using a generator indoors will kill. That is the strong message from the Consumer Product Safety Commission as reported in the St. Pete Times.Generators to carry a warningAfter a record number of carbon monoxide deaths, federal regulators require a label for gas-powered portable generators.Portable generators can be a lifesaver in the aftermath...
I attended an association strategy session today where we discussed membership and trends among various age groups. Naturally the ideas surrounding membership may be applied to jurors. According to the research group--Consensus Management Group of New York--generations vary significantly from pre-1945 persons up through the present. It was shown that pre-1945 (born before 1945) persons are...
Two rheumatoid arthritis drugs, Remicade and Humira, have been linked to a doubled risk of serious infections and a tripled risk of cancer, according to a recent study led by the Mayo Clinic and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Humira is made by Abbott Laboratories and was approved in 2002, and Remicade is made by Centocor and was approved in 1998. People with...
Personal Injury law in Maryland is vastly different then other states due to the Doctrine of Contributory Negligence. Contributory negligence means that if a person is found to be 1% or more at fault, that person is 100% barred from making any recovery. For example, if you are the victim of a rear end collision and the judge or jury finds you contributed to the accident by stopping too quickly,...
If you get hurt on the job, your employer maybe required to pay you workers' compensation benefits. You may be entitled to Medical Care, Temporary total disability benefits,Temporary partial disability benefits, Permanent partial disability benefits, Vocational rehabilitation benefits, or Death benefits. The tips below only scratch the surface of possible pitfalls in the workers' compensation...
You can't believe everything you read, even in Medical Journals. Merck deliberately withheld information about three heart attacks from its data when the New England Journal of Medicine reported on VIoxx in March of 2000. Recently, Merck's spin machine is citing new data about patients who stopped using Vioxx after its recall to suggest that it reinforces Merck's argument that only patients...
According to the American Prospect, your guess may be as good as mine (and your doctor's) about your medical problem.It's easy to forget how much of American medicine is a guessing game, how your treatments are a composite result of your doctor's experiences, biases, treasured anecdotes, and personal reactions to his own training. Most folks think medicine operates off a rigidly defined set of...
Everyone knows the story of Jeffrey Wigand, "the insider" who blew open the truth about the tobacco industry "conspiracy" of silence relating to cancer and diseases caused by tobacco. But have you ever heard of David Nelson, the railroad industry "insider" who blew the whistle on CSXT's rail crossing billing "over-charges" to the federal government? Nelson also unloads the truth about little...