Posted on February 4th, 2019 by Elizabeth
Your doctor writes you a prescription. Your pharmacist fills it. You trust these people with your life, without a second thought. What if you found out the person who filled your prescription wasn’t a licensed pharmacist at all? In the California Bay Area, Kim Le signed off on or dispensed 745,355 prescriptions over more than […]
Posted on January 31st, 2019 by Elizabeth
Mark Fitzgerald and Richard Kamrowski got into a fender bender on the crowded Mass Pike outside of Weston, Massachusetts, last Friday. The situation escalated quickly and resulted in a case of road rage unlike any seen before – one man holding on to the hood of a car as it barreled 70 mph down the […]
Posted on January 28th, 2019 by Elizabeth
Do federal, state, and local governments do enough to prevent pedestrian accidents in the United States? A new report says no. With 49,340 pedestrian deaths in a decade as of the end of 2017, pedestrian fatalities are an ongoing public health crisis. In 2016 and 2017 alone, 12,000 pedestrians lost their lives.
Posted on January 23rd, 2019 by Elizabeth
Driving is a daily risk. We get behind the wheel, we operate a huge machine, we share the road with other motorists who may or may not be good at what they’re doing. There are many causes of Michigan auto accidents, but there are some that are consistently on top.
Posted on January 21st, 2019 by Elizabeth
The number of women who give birth by Caesarean section has almost doubled across the globe since 2000. While a C-section can save the lives of mother and baby in emergency situations, new data shows that this surgical procedure is being overused in some countries, most notably the United States. Unnecessary C-sections only increase the […]
Nearly six years ago, Lamont Johnson was fatally shot on the 14000 block of Tireman on Detroit’s west side. The shooters? Two Detroit police officers...
In December 2023, Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bipartisan bill that holds drug companies accountable for wrongdoing. People harmed by prescription drugs now have...
Fidgets are all the rage and come in many shapes and sizes. Some are squishy and quiet, others click and clack. And then there are...
