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• Dangerous Drug-Resistant Staph Germ (MRSA) Rising in Children ENT Infections

  Greg Webb | February 09, 2009 8:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Researchers have found an alarming increase in the number of children’s ear, nose and throat infections nationwide, which are caused by dangerous drug-resistant staph germs, nicknamed MRSA....

• Disruptive Doctors Causing Medical Errors and Workplace Problems

  Greg Webb | December 24, 2008 8:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Hospital staff members are blaming badly behaving doctors for low morale, stress, and high turnover, which contribute to medical mistakes, preventable complications, and even death, a recent study...

• MRSA Infections Typically Caught In Hospitals, Killing 18,000 People Each Year

  Greg Webb | December 09, 2008 8:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  MRSA infections kill more than 18,000 people a year, and six out of seven people infected with the antibiotic-resistant germ contract it at a health care facility. The germ, methicillin-resistant...

• General Motors’ Agrees To Compensate For Faulty Saturn Transmissions

  Greg Webb | September 18, 2008 9:00 AM | 4 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay about $90 million or more to tens of thousands of motorists in all fifty states for expenses they acquired due to faulty transmissions in more than...

• Senate Finally Questioning Dubious Disability Insurance Practice

  Ben Glass | July 25, 2008 6:24 AM | 4 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The disability insurance companies are being taken to task again for helping to waste government money and being a part of the cause of social security claims being so backed up in this country.

• Consumer Alert--Tread Cautiously With the Lawyer Directory Websites

  Ben Glass | June 25, 2008 10:21 PM | 4 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  An email sent today to lawyers across the country should cause consumers use due-diligence when searching for a lawyer on the Internet. DUI1.com, a very popular and highly ranked (in Google)...

• Warning: The Adults Know All About Facebook and Myspace

  Michael Phelan | April 11, 2008 1:55 PM | 4 CommentsRichmond, VA

  I am not one of those parents who wants to invade my teenagers' privacy and spy on their MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, or other social media sites. But I do want them and other teens and young adults...

• An Open Letter to the American Association for Justice: Reactivate the Trial Lawyers Care Volunteer Project to Help Brain-Injured Iraq War Soldiers

  Michael Phelan | March 12, 2007 10:48 AM | 4 CommentsRichmond, VA

  I read with disgust the latest news account of how the Pentagon is failing to provide necessary medical care for soldiers who suffer brain injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Largely because of the improvised explosive devices used by Iraq insurgents, traumatic brain injury has become the signature wound of the Iraq War. In an article titled, "For War's Gravely Injured, Challenge to...

• Runaway Toyota Vehicles Take Lives

  Paul Thomson | October 23, 2009 2:35 PM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Recent reports of fatal crashes involving Toyota and Toyota-made Lexus vehicles are frightening! The crashes involve the cars accelerating uncontrollably, reaching speeds of 120 MPH, and leaving...

• New GPS-Based Software May Be One Solution to Texting & Driving Epidemic

  Rick Shapiro | October 13, 2009 5:09 AM | 3 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  The controversy surrounding texting while driving is not only a local Virginia (VA) and Carolina (NC/SC) issue but has received national attention as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood described...