The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued a press release on April 2, 2014, stating that testosterone replacement drugs such as AndroGel, Androderm, Axiron, and Testim can cause brain damage in Caucasian men, but not in Mexican-American men. The University released its findings…
Looking at the road and holding the wheel are not enough to be safe — we must concentrate only on the primary task of driving. We are cognitively distracted if we are not concentrating entirely on driving and instead are trying to think about a…
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. a maker of artificial hips bought Biomet Orthopedics for $13 Billion today to be in a position to challenge Johnson & Johnson which is the biggest manufacturer or artificial hips in the market place. DePuy which made the recalled ASR is a…
Camilla’s Brother Dies in Tragic Fall Resulting in Head Injury Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are reeling after learning that her brother, Mark Shand, died after falling and hitting his head at a hotel. Medical examiners will determine the exact cause of death, but…
Although not a new concept Mark Philips hopes to market the first powdered alcohol in the US by early fall. An active outdoorsman, Phillips claims he was “frustrated” by the hassle of carrying bottles of wine or liquor to enjoy after a day of biking…
This LiveScience.com summary of a just-published report from University of North Carolina Center for the Study of Young Drivers is worth quoting at length: Teen drivers … were six times more likely to have a serious driving incident — such as a collision, near collision,…
PetSmart, working in conjunction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), issued a voluntary recall of glass fish bowls because they have the potential to break, shatter or crack during normal handling which poses an injury hazard to consumers. To this date, the company…
For years, antidepressants have been suspected of increasing the risk of birth defects. Several studies over the past decade have indicated that women taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and other similar medications may be more likely to give birth to babies with heart, cranial,…
Teens Overdosing on New LSD-Like Drug You’ve probably heard of K2 by now, or the synthetic marijuana that also goes by the name “spice” that was allegedly a safer alternative to marijuana. However, K2 was banned in Michigan in June 2012, and many other states…
The week before last, I am sitting in the Florida Workers’ Compensation Forum, when one of the speakers quotes a court opinion stating that to require a certain act (irrelevant to this blog) on the part of the insurance carrier would defeat the “self-executing nature…