The surge of lawsuits against the National Football League (NFL) by former players grew Tuesday as four more cases representing some 300 ex-players and their spouses were consolidated in a Philadelphia courtroom.
Some people just don’t learn their lesson. Take, for instance, the case of a Washington, Pennsylvania man who was arrested for driving under the influence two times in one night. The second time, only minutes after he was released from his first arrest.
For many cancer patients, leukemia is fatal. That may not be the case much longer.
The restaurant at the corner of Dekalb Pike and Colonial Drive was packed with customers at the time when the blue, Buick sedan came soaring through the window.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2/25, Fabregas) reported, “Hospital-acquired germs may have contributed to several thousand rehospitalizations in Pennsylvania,” according to a review by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. The group found that “23,287 people got hospital-acquired infections in 2009, or 1.2 percent of the 1.9 million patients admitted to hospitals statewide. Nearly 30 percent …
The Los Angeles Times (10/27, Zajac) “Booster Shots” blog reported, “B. Braun Medical Inc., of Irvine on Wednesday announced a recall of seven lots of the anticoagulant heparin because of concerns they may be contaminated with trace amounts of oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, or OSCS, the same substance implicated in the 2008 heparin crisis that …
