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Hot coffee, McDonalds and tort reform have become strange bed-fellows since a verdict was delivered against the McDonalds Corporation by a jury; for severe injuries to 79 year old Stella Liebeck, caused by spilled coffee. To people who believe Corporate America needs protecting, the McDonalds coffee case became a poster […]

$4 billion dollars lost (at least temporarily) to fraud. That is both astounding and just a little scary. First, how is $4 billion defrauded from the government? Secondly, who is in a position to defraud the government out of that amount of money? The answer to the second question is […]

Can bath salts cause severe brain damage? Can bath salts cause severe psychotic episodes? Can bath salts kill you? Not the type of warnings you will find on “bath salts” or, for that matter, the types of warnings I would have ever imagined appearing on bath salts. But, these are […]

Yesterday, the administrator of the 20 Billion dollar Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund, Ken Feinberg, was attending town hall meetings in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and will be addressing certain affected industries in Tampa, Florida.  He noted that over 70,000 people have filed for “quick claims” with the fund, an […]

When my 47-year old friend from my college days had to have her hip replaced last year, because of wear and tear on the joint, I doubt very much that anyone said to her, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news.  The good news is the state-of-the-art in […]

A new study released by The Cornucopia Institute, an advocate for family farming, found that most of the common organic and cage-free eggs we purchase at our grocery stores are from chickens that are produced in an industrial-scale setting where no outdoor access is granted for the chickens and most […]

The “BP Fund Czar”, Kenneth Feinberg, says his staff has been interviewing officials at “government regulatory agencies” to determine how severe the impact of the largest oil spill in the history of the United States will actually be from a long term perspective. There are at least a couple of […]

Twelve years ago, the medical and scientific community was rocked when Lancet, the leading medical journal in the United Kingdom, published the results of a study led by Andrew Wakefield which had concluded that there was a direct link between autism and the childhood vaccine for mumps, measles and rubella […]

Those sneaky cancer cells lurking in blood work, which for years have gone undetected, are now directly in the cross-hairs of a new blood test invented by Boston-based scientists. The test is said to be able to detect one cancer cell in billions of cells from a typical blood test.  […]