Legal proceedings and litigation won’t always have your desired outcome — whether your appeal is denied or a case is decided in favor of the other party, hiring a lawyer isn’t a guarantee that you’ll get a favorable result. But what if the attorney you’ve hired…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect millions of Americans — in the U.S. alone, more than two million people have been infected and over 100,000 have died — researchers are urgently seeking treatment options for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Because viruses aren’t…
People suffering from diseases or other medical conditions that currently have no cure may be desperate to seek some kind of medical treatment. And while stem cell therapies may sound promising and offer hope, many of those currently being advertised are not proven to be…
Medical treatment involving stem cells is an ever-growing, billion-dollar industry, so chances are you have heard about it in the news. Here in the U.S. and around the world, stem cells are being used in various therapies to treat a wide variety of health problems…
On Dec. 3, the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced the next phase of the district’s Dockless Vehicle Sharing Program. More specifically, it announced which companies will be allowed to continue to operate dockless bikes and scooters on the city’s roads – and which will…
On Oct. 18, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recalled 33,000 bottles of its 22-ounce Baby Powder after a U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) test found trace amounts of asbestos in a sample of the powder. The contaminated sample came from lot #22318RB, and the recall…
In recent months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been conducting an ongoing investigation of the rising number of vaping-related lung disease patients and deaths ravaging the nation. Cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury, or EVALI, were…
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, leaves its victims in excruciating pain with the feeling they are in the midst of a lonely, uphill battle with no end in sight. CRPS occurs most often after trauma to a limb. An inflammatory condition, the nerves misfire, sending…
Pets. They give us unconditional love. And we love them back. They are members of the family, and we treat them as such. We do our best to take care of them and feed them. However, with more than 100-million pets overweight or obese in…
Interstitial cystitis (IC) drug Elmiron (pentosan polysulfate sodium or PPS) has been on the market since 1996. Recent studies have linked long-term use of this drug to an increased risk of a rare form of eye damage called pigmentary maculopathy. Individuals who used the product…
