Grilling season is upon us and people are pulling out their wire grill brushes to get those grills ready to go. Beware being one of the grillers (or eaters of grilled delights) ending up in the emergency room with injuries from ingesting wire bristles from…
Not surprisingly, many clients of our firm suffer from head injuries, concussion, and traumatic brain injuries as a result of accidents. Much research has been done and publicized in recent years due to concerns of long-term effects from head injuries. While in the past it…
Bumble Bee Foods had to recall three different types of their company’s canned Chunk Light Tuna. The recall includes their Bumble Bee Chunk Light Tuna in water (5 oz. can), their Bumble Bee Chunk Light Tuna in oil (5 oz. can), and their Bumble Bee…
Ford pickup drivers beware! Ford is being investigated by the U.S. government due to at least 33 complaints of brake failure in the Ford F-150 pickup truck. The investigation involves 420,000 pickups that have 3.5 liter, six-cylinder engines from 2013 and 2014 model years. Complainants…
Lawsuits are heating up (excuse the pun) with the 3M Company’s Bair Hugger warming blankets. These are the blankets utilized to keep over 200 million pre-surgical patients warm while they awaited surgery in the operating room. The allegations of the lawsuits are that the blankets…
Our attention has been called to an odd safety concern leading to near death for a San Diego, California woman. Reportedly, a woman named Elizabeth Smith did what many people do on a regular basis without any thought, and that was to sit in a…
As an update to our previously run blog regarding the use of talcum powder being linked to ovarian cancer in women, there is news of a ruling ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay 72 million dollars out for an ovarian cancer death. On February 22,…
German researches have determined that there is a group of medications for heartburn, called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) that are possibly responsible for raising the risk for dementia in older adults, especially those 75 years of age and older. The risky drugs include the commonly…
In the United States, consumers are taking more prescription drugs for anxiety issues and are overdoing on anxiety drugs more than ever before. Benzodiazepines (“benzos”) make up the class of prescribed drugs that are seeing markedly increased overdoses than before 1996. From 1996 to 2013…
Have you had the condition of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repaired via a surgical mesh product? If the answer is yes, you should be aware that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made revisions to the data requirements regarding these devices after receiving…
You may or may not be familiar with the green leaf, kratom, that is imported in product forms such as drink form, powdered products, and bars, and have been sold in places like convenience stores, as well as on the internet. Kratom is touted by…
When you think of ice and the hazards of driving at this time of year it is natural to think of spinning out on dangerously icy roads, but there is also a hazard when the ice is not cleaned off of your vehicle before your…