Posts tagged injury

• Hawaii Safety First; The best graduation gift may be a motorcycle helmet

  Wayne Parsons | May 24, 2012 2:27 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Hawaii is a great place to ride motorcycles and mopeds. But it is also a place where the roads are crowded, drivers are distracted (now more than ever with rampant cell phone use resulting in...

• Important tips for Hawaii high school graduation month: don't ride in the back of a puck-up truck!

  Wayne Parsons | May 15, 2012 4:29 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We have to wear seatbelts and we can't drive and use a handheld cell phone. I'll buy that. Those are good rules. Where did they come from? A combination of common sense and our elected...

• Honolulu Alert: Beyond ending distracted driving, end distracted walking!

  Wayne Parsons | May 15, 2012 3:18 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  We all know about the movement on many fronts across the country to end distracted driving. But now Claude Wyle from San Francisco and one of the country's top lawyers, warns that...

• Hawaii High School Graduation Week: end tha txt

  Wayne Parsons | May 09, 2012 4:47 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Hawaii high school students will be celebrating graduation this month and into June and the text messages and Tweets will be flying through cyberspace each night. If, on May 26th for instance at...

• What should you do if you have a metal on metal (MoM) hip implant?

  Wayne Parsons | August 27, 2011 7:03 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The news is full of stories about hip replacement implant surgeries gone bad. Joseph Saunders, a leading medical device expert attorney from Florida has been a great news source for the status of...

• What is the downside of declining hormone therapy"

  Wayne Parsons | August 27, 2011 5:38 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a recent study it has been observed that lower rates of hormone therapy have resulted in doctors decreasing mammograms: A study published online in the American Cancer Society journal Cancer...

• Rachel's Wish Lives On

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As a big support of the public safety and prevention organization KidsAndCars.org, the story today on CNN about Rachel is worth talking about. Rachel was killed in an automobile crash when she was...

• President of DePuy Orthopedics, David Floyd, has submitted his resignation

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 4:53 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  When I first learned of the DePuy ASR hip implant recall, I recognized it for what it was: an absolute calamity. One in 8 of these devices would fail, according to the recall statement. Who would...

• Hip implant injuries continue to plague patients - are manufacturers at fault?

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 4:48 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  A bad hip hurts. Doctors tell their patients to live with it as long as you can and when the pain is so bad that quality of life is unbearable to implant a medical device to replace the natural...

• What is wrong with the Stryker hip implant?

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 3:02 AM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Stryker Hip Implants, first introduced in 2003, have come under fire by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), following complaints of squeaky ceramic hip joints, among other problems. ...