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Technology to Combat Teen Distracted Driving

Parents worried about the alarming statistics regarding teenager motor vehicle crashes caused by distracted driving are tapping new technology to keep their young drivers from texting, surfing and even talking behind the wheel.   Applications that prevent people from using their mobile phones while a vehicle is moving also are gaining popularity with corporate fleet managers. And, [...]

Distracted Driving on the Rise

A survey released last week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration poses bad news for highway safety.  Texting by drivers continues to increase , expecially among younger drivers, despite all of the recent publicity and new laws banning texting while driving.  About 50% of drivers between ages 21 and 24 admit to texting while driving.  [...]

Safe Driving Software Aims to Block Texting, E-Mailing, and Browsing While Driving

Technology is emerging that could solve one of the most dangerous forms of distracted driving: texting, e-mailing, and web-surfing while driving.

Auto Makers Send Mixed Message on Distracted Driving

A day does not go by that I do not see a car holding up traffic driving too slowly and erratically.  Inevitably, I pass the car, look at the driver, and see that he or she is texting or talking on the cell phone.  And, typically, not looking very carefully at the road.  It also seems [...]

Substantial Number of Our Troops Being Diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury

Research showing that a second concussion could be exponentially more dangerous and could cause permanent brain damage helped pave the way for this policy.

iPhone App Helps Brain Injured Cope With Memory Problems

A new iPhone App called It’s Done! is helping brain injury survivors remember whether they turned off the stove, locked the door, or took their medication. For those dealing with short term memory problems, the app instantly confirms the completion of everyday routine tasks.

FDA Warns of Bladder Cancer Risk from Diabetes Drug Actos

Diabetics taking Actos (pioglitazone) for more than one year may have a significantly increased risk of bladder cancer, according to an FDA interim review of an ongoing epidemiological study.  The warning comes just days after two European countries, Germany and France, banned use of the drug.  Five-year data show that although there is no overall increased [...]

DePuy Hip Failure Rate as High as 49% in U.K.

A 49% failure rate means big problems for DePuy, as approximately 46,000 patients may be facing premature revision surgery.

Big Brother Should Butt Out of Our 7th Amendment Rights to Trial By Jury

Here’s a perfect example of a doctor who deserves to be sued without the federal government dictating what a state court jury can award in damages, or dictating the terms of a private contract the victims can enter into with their attorneys.  Nizar Mohamed Hussain, a Woodbridge, Virginia  internal medicine doctor has been charged yet another time with sexual [...]

Area Brain Injury Expert Discusses Rep. Giffords’ Traumatic Brain Injury

AAN.com: The fictional story The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Book III in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) left many readers believing that you can survive a bullet wound to the head without any residual effects. Is that true?

O’Shanick: What makes a good story doesn’t necessarily parallel reality. Harrison Ford, in his portrayal of a lawyer who survives a shooting in the 1991 movie “Regarding Henry” was a more accurate depiction of the challenges that occur following an injury.