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Medical MalpracticePainkillers Prescribed Haphazardly While Online Sales Soar One of the reasons the nation’s opioid crisis has spun out of control could be the fact that doctors are not trained universally in the field of pain management. So said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in […]
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Jerome Adams Calls on Communities To ‘Be Prepared’ and ‘Save A Life’ The opioid epidemic in America is so out of hand that the U.S. surgeon general’s office has issued an advisory: “Be prepared. Get naloxone. Save a life.” Naloxone, a nasal spray marketed as Narcan, immediately reverses the effects […]
CDC Says 6 out of 1,000 Newborns Suffer from Drug Withdrawal Drug-addicted mothers passing along the egregious effects of opioid use to their children has increased on such a large scale that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given it a name: neonatal abstinence syndrome. Neonatal abstinence syndrome, […]
CDC Issues Report That Says Overdoses Are Rising in US The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s March 2018 issue of Vital Signs addresses the opioid epidemic in America and cites statistics that show the problem is worsening. According to the agency, overdoses caused by opioids spiked 30 percent between […]
U.S. Attorney General Creates Task force To Address Epidemic The opioid crisis in America exists because both the illegal and prescription forms of the drug are highly addictive and commonly abused. In 2016, the latest year for which figures are available, over 100 deaths daily were attributed to overdoses, amounting to […]
A public-relations nightmare has bubbled up around the age-old appliance known as the pressure cooker. All it took was a plot twist in the popular NBC television drama This is Us. The beloved matriarch of the show, Jack Pearson, played by actor Milo Ventimiglia, apparently was done in by a […]
The modern-day version of the pressure cooker dates to 17th-century France. Invented by Denis Papin, a physicist noted for working the steam power, the “steam digester” increased water’s boiling point, resulting in faster cooking times. The product’s history continues through World War II, when it helped feed U.S. troops, and […]
Our firm recently has taken on cases of serious burns and other horrific injuries caused by cooking with a 1940s kitchen standard—the pressure cooker. Tristar’s Power Pressure Cooker XL is marketed as being a safe, but explosions are sending consumers across the country to the hospital when defective safety locks […]
In 1995, I recall being given the opportunity to help Billy Hungerford; who was horrifically and tragically injured as a result of a defective guardrail. Since that time my law firm has handled injuries from defective guard rails. By 2016 shouldn’t we have fixed this type of highway defect, which can […]
7 Deaths Associated With Medical Device EpiPens exist to save lives or stave off severe allergic reactions to drugs, foods, insect bites and other causes of anaphylaxis. They are pocket-sized cylindrical devices that, in case of an episode, quickly can be uncapped and injected into the outer thigh for near-instant […]
