Posts tagged damage

• Too Much Acetaminophen Can Be Deadly Over Time

  Pierce Egerton | November 25, 2011 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Over time the damage builds up and can be fatal Can be difficult to diagnose According to recently published research, repeatedly taking slightly too much acetaminophen...

• Notre Dame Stormchaser Deploys Probes During Hurricane Irene

  Pierce Egerton | August 28, 2011 12:06 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When Hurricane Irene set its sights on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Notre Dame researcher, Andrew Kennedy, set his sights on Irene. A researcher in the university’s Department of Civil...

• Hurricane Irene -- Remembering Floyd & Keeping Water Safe In Storm and Flood Conditions

  Pierce Egerton | August 26, 2011 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Forecasters are concerned that Hurricane Irene could present a hundred-year flooding event. For those of us in North Carolina, such dire warnings evoke the haunting memory of weeks of disastrous...

• Medical Malpractice Caps for Emergency Room Errors Adopted in North Carolina

  Jim Lewis | July 19, 2011 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A few weeks ago on this site, my Carolina medical malpractice plaintiff's attorney colleague Rick Shapiro applauded the governor's veto of a North Carolina bill to limit noneconomic monetary damage...

• North Carolina Bill to Cap Medical Malpractice Damage Awards Defeated, for Now

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | June 26, 2011 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A misguided effort to control health care costs in North Carolina by making it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice and surgical errors to receive adequate and fair compensation for...

• Boy recovering after hit and run

  Lawrence Egerton | June 20, 2011 8:43 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It's sad when a little boy says he doesn't want to ride his bike anymore. But we can at least be thankful that a family doesn't have much, much more to be sad about in this hit-and-run case in...

• After the Storm -- Insurance Damage Claims

  Pierce Egerton | June 11, 2011 6:23 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In North Carolina and throughout much of the country we've already experienced devastating storms this season. With tornado and hurricane seasons still in early days, the following advice from the...

• Ready Or Not . . . Hurricane Season Is Here!

  Pierce Egerton | June 10, 2011 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Hurricane Hugo graphic / NOAA North Carolina is among the four states with the highest number of billion-dollar weather disasters since 1980. Most of these events are associated with hurricanes...

• Cobalt poisoning poses very real risk to DePuy hip implant patients

  Lawrence Egerton | February 13, 2011 8:37 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Along with the pain, swelling, surgical complications and other problems facing DePuy hip implant patients, another serious health threat is cobalt poisoning, or cobaltism. Thousands of patients...

• Metallosis: One danger of DePuy hip implant failure

  Lawrence Egerton | February 10, 2011 4:36 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  One of the complications that patients with a defective DePuy Orthopaedics hip implant may face is metallosis, a condition in which metal particles build up in the tissue around the implanted joint....