News tagged with 'Death'

The Cirrus SR20 is a "different" aircraft than a Cessna. Its sleek high performance design comes complete with a parachute for additional safety. But critics point out that the Cirrus has had triple the fatality rate of the Cessna in the last 10 years, overwhelmingly due to pilot error. 

Women with clinical depression were twice as likely to experience sudden cardiac death, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Both conductors were text messaging just before a fatal train collision last September that killed 25 aboard a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train, the National Transportation Safety Board reports.  

Data from the Continental 3407 commuter plane crash in Buffalo last Thursday, is beginning to point to an overreaction by the crew to the systems that automatically took over in icyconditions. More analysis and data needs to be looked at before that theory is conclusive. 

A wrongful death lawsuit will be filed by the siblings of a man who was hired as a temporary worker at a Long Island Wal-Mart. He was trampled to death when the store opened its doors to about 2,000 bargain-hunters on Black Friday.

It was the discounts of Black Friday that saw a Long Island crowd burst through the doors of a Wal-Mart and knock down a security guard trampling him to death. Others were injured including an 8-month pregnant woman.

The first day of the cyberbullying trial of a mother, sounded more like a murder trial of a 13-year old girl who killed herself after being harassed online. The case will set a legal precedent for cyberbulling, which impacts about 40 percent of teenage girls. 

A report and live webcast on the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, August 1, 2007 is underway and about to be issued. Structurally too-thin gussets connecting the steel span will likely be the conclusion. 13 people died and 145 were injured while more bridges are in similar shape around the country.  

Six days and counting and a brief overview is presented here on both candidates health care plans.  Health care and the economy are the top issues. Elizabeth Edwards, who has made health care her top priority, says neither plan offers universal coverage, the cheapest way to go.

Christopher Bizilj, an 8-year-old boy, was testing a 9 mm Micro Uzi at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club in Westfield, Massachusetts, as part of the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo when he accidentally shot himself Sunday.

Should corporations be given complete immunity from liability for dangerous and defective products? 

A new study finds one in four terminally ill patients in Oregon who elect physician-assisted suicide have clinical depression and may not be capable of making an informed, rational decision about ending their lives. Oregon became the first state to enact a law allowing for physician-assisted suicide in 1997.

While the cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) remains a mystery, new data shows that infants sleeping in a room with circulating air from a ceiling fan, had a 72 percent reduction in deaths. It may help circulate carbon dioxide the infants exhale.

The National Transportation Safety Board confirms today that the train engineer of a Metrolink commuter train sent his last text message 22 seconds before he ran head-on into a freight train, killing 25 passengers aboard. 

While the pink bandwagon will be raising funds to fight breast cancer during October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, few resources are focused on the causes of breast cancer.  Many supporters of the month are industries with something to gain.