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Meta-analysis refutes cell phone brain tumor link
“Although there remains some uncertainty, the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile phone use can cause brain tumors in adults,” the experts wrote in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Full StoryFDA 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 [...]
Full StoryJohn Stossel and Other Tort Reform Hypocrites
John Stossel used to be a whiny left-wing consumer advocate famous for fudging facts and citing “some people say” as his source, and now he is a whiny right-wing shill for big business and tort reform advocates famous for fudging facts and citing “some people” as his source. His style of reporting is the epitomy of yellow [...]
Full StoryRichmond Developer/Swindler, Justin French, Sentenced to 16 Years
Yesterday, newly appointed federal judge, John A. Gibney, Jr., sentenced Justin G. French to serve 16 years in federal prison for cheating the government and investors out of millions of dollars. “There was no reason for (the scheme) except greed,” U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. said during a sentencing hearing in federal court in [...]
Full StoryDon’t *%$! With Howard Stern
Howard Stern, the shock jock who once called his network boss “pig vomit” and later became the highest paid radio personality in the United States by interviewing strippers and telling on-air fart jokes also happens to have graduated magna cum laude from Boston University. Oh, and he’s also an accomplished chess player. The point is that when it comes to business [...]
Full StoryBig 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 [...]
Full StoryAmerican Jury System Does Not Need Fixing
Our system “ain’t broke.” It is based upon tradition and common law and has provided justice to individuals and businesses alike.
Full StoryArmy claims simple blood test can identify mild traumatic brain injury
USA Today reported today that the Army claims it has discovered a simple blood test that can diagnose mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also referred to as mild brain damage or concussion. Army Col. Dallas Hack, who has oversight of the research, says recent data show the blood test, which looks for unique proteins that [...]
Full StoryMedicare Not Entitled to Beneficiaries’ Wrongful Death Benefits
A child’s loss of parental companionship claim is a property right belonging to the child. Not the secretary of HHS.”
Full StoryGansta on the Federal Bench
Senior United States District Court Judge Jack T. Camp of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta was arrested late Friday night near Sandy Springs, Georgia. The FBI agent’s affidavit for his arrest charges that 67 year old Camp had a relationship with a stripper who had a federal conviction relating to a drug trafficking case. The two would meet when Camp paid the stripper for sex, and they would smoke weed, snort coke, and take the painkiller, Roxicodone, which is known by savvy gangstas like Judge Camp as “Roxi.”
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