The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a ban on the use of powdered gloves in surgery and other medical and dental procedures. The FDA originally issued a proposal to ban the gloves in March of last year but has now made that proposal…
A man in Bluffton, South Carolina has been charged with DUI and leaving the scene of a fatal three car accident on April 13. Bluffton police stated that the man was witnessed driving erratically in Bluffton on May River road. When he hit the other…
Virginia State Police charged a Georgia truck driver with reckless driving after a tractor trailer crash on I-81 that killed a father and son. The accident occurred at 6 am on May 7 as traffic was slowing in Frederick County, Virginia due to an earlier…
A jury in St. Louis awarded $110.5 million to a woman who developed ovarian cancer after using Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower products for more than 40 years. The civil defective and dangerous product lawsuit centered on the questions of whether…
An 18 year old freshman at North Carolina Central University died on the evening of April 9 in a head on car accident in Durham, North Carolina that allegedly was caused by a drunk driver. The Durham police stated that a car going east on…
A 23 year old medical student at Eastern Virginia Medical School was killed in the early AM hours of April 24, 2016 in a DUI wreck, by a 39 year old Virginia Beach man. This week, he received a sentence of a total of 11 years…
There are increasing calls to improve public safety after a tragic pool death in North Carolina due to electrocution where a lifeguard died. Experts say it is a very dangerous and invisible problem that can lead to paralysis or death in seconds. Thousands of volts…
April 2017 brought bad news about drug-related fatalities on two fronts. Virginia became the latest state to see dramatic increases in deadly opioid overdoses, and a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) revealed that, for the first time, people killed in traffic crashes…