The police officers, firefighters and other people who worked at the World Trade Center after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks sued the New York city council and contractors for the injuries they sustained as they cleaned up and offered rescue services. The initial settlement that they were to receive was [...]

Nowadays, Board Certifications, extensive experience, and computer literacy are not enough for physicians to gain exposure on popular media streams such as Twitter. More and more physicians are becoming leaders in their practice which has helped them achieve a celebrity-like status through television shows, authorship, and social networking websites.
Twitter has become [...]

While some states have recently taken steps to address the dangers of unsafe packaging and transportation of used fluorescent lamps and mercury-containing devices, there is still a long way to go in protecting people and the environment from mercury vapor emitted from broken lamps.
Read more about recent legislation here: http://www.nextcom.com/pressreleases/vll/126.html
The EPA [...]

The often-quoted acceptable age range of 18 to 40 years of age for LASIK eligibility is more of a rule of thumb than a fixed boundary. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of the excimer laser to treat persons over 18 years of age, there really is [...]

When a Walgreens pharmacy provided Beth Hippely with a blood thinner pill 10 times stronger than what her doctor had prescribed, she took it. She had filled her prescription for the blood thinner at the same pharmacy before and she had no way of knowing that a pharmacy technician had made [...]