- Mark Bello | January 31, 2012 8:28 AM | Farmington Hills, MI
Category:
Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
Four years ago, 25 people died and 135 injured in the Metrolink head-on train accident in Chatsworth resulting from an engineer who was texting and failed to see a red signal after pulling away...
- David Mittleman | January 16, 2012 10:22 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Medical Malpractice
A recent CNN investigation uncovered an alarming trend--doctors cheating on their board certification exams. According to CNN reporters, doctors taking a test to become board certified in...
- David Mittleman | November 11, 2011 10:00 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
Dealing with elderly patients can be difficult and unpredictable, but according to a growing body of medical research restraining patients to prevent them from pulling out tubes or falling can do...
- David Mittleman | August 24, 2011 10:00 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Miscellaneous
Boy or girl: it's usually the first thing people want to know after learning that they are pregnant. Thanks to advances in medical research, couples can now know the sex of their baby much earlier...
- David Mittleman | July 15, 2011 9:40 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
On Thursday, Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, filed lawsuits against two New York attorneys, their law firm, and four as-yet-unnamed bloggers. The law school is alleging that the...
- David Mittleman | December 24, 2010 5:52 PM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Miscellaneous
It's sad news, but according to recent reports, only 4 out of 10 Americans believe in marriage. In fact, a study by the Pew Research Center found that nearly 1 in 3 children lives with a divorced,...
- David Mittleman | March 18, 2010 2:04 PM | Lansing, MI
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
A few weeks ago I wrote about medical residency programs accepting pharmaceutical industry gifts and the ethical concerns that The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine has about the...
- David Mittleman | February 26, 2010 10:00 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
According to a survey conducted in 2006 and 2007, ¾ of the program directors responsible for medical residency programs that responded said that they believed it “was not...
- Devon Glass | October 06, 2008 10:39 AM | Lansing, MI
Category:
Miscellaneous
When it comes to back room politics, no one plays the game better than Cliff Taylor, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who is up for re-election. While ignoring the law to reach...