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Young Children and Stairs
  • May 25, 2012
  • Categories: News

Every year, more than 93,000 emergency room visits result from young children injured on stairs, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. That means a child is injured every six minutes, as you can see from this ABC News story. 87% of the children injured are on their...

Why should two people who took the same medication and were both injured by pharmaceutical companies receive dramatically different awards? One of the patients received $6.8 million, and the other received nothing. A recent case in the U.S. Supreme Court (PLIVA, INC., ET AL. v. MENSING) decided that patients who...

Alpharetta police report a man died late Wednesday in a single-vehicle wreck. The driver, Jason Dapice, 36, of Alpharetta was traveling in a Toyota Corolla eastbound on Cumming Street near Clairmont Avenue. For reasons unknown at this time, his vehicle left the roadway and hit a utility pole. The vehicle...

In Gwinnett County last Saturday night, a dispute over a football game turned deadly, and 30-year-old Corey Adams was shot outside an Applebees. Adams and a friend were at the Applebees on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth and were cheering on the San Francisco 49ers, when a fan of the New Orleans...

Hit and run accidents can be devastating to a family. Maurice Freeman, 16, was walking to school last October 11 when he was hit by a car while crossing Georgia Highway 54 in Clayton County. The driver didn’t stop, and police have not solved the case. Instead of attending high school...

Traffic Deaths Hit 60-Year Low
  • January 24, 2012
  • Categories: News

Good news for a change. Not since U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveiled his Fair Deal program and the first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC have traffic fatalities been lower than they were in 2010. An April 2011 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report indicates that the number of...

19-year-old Jonathon Byram, a college student from Sykesville, Maryland, was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was in flipped. Byram was the passenger; the driver was Mark Renehan, a college student from Connecticut. The accident happened in the early morning hours after a July 4th party. Byram’s estate filed a wrongful...

Fatal Shooting in North Georgia
  • January 10, 2012
  • Categories: News

A 59-year-old man walked into a crowded hospital waiting room in North Georgia last Friday and killed his wife and mother-in-law. The shootings happened at Hutcheson Medical Center, about 10 miles from the Tennessee border in Oglethorpe, Georgia. The two victims were identified as 56-year-old Mary Benson of Rossville Georgia and her...

Pharmacy Errors

Sometimes pharmacists mix-up over-the-counter medicines with prescription medicines. The FDA warns of just such a problem at the Novartis AG manufacturing plant in Nebraska, according to the Wall Street Journal from January 10, 2012. Pharmacy errors are all too common. A diabetic is prescribed heart a medication. Birth control pills are replaced...

The Georgia State Patrol reports that John N. Voorhees, 74, of Hiram, Georgia was killed and three others injured in a three-vehicle wreck Saturday night in Paulding County. Voorhees was a passenger in a 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis that struck a Chevrolet Tahoe at the intersection of Ga. 120 and Ga. 92...

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