Neck injuries are some of the most common injuries that occur in accidents in Atlanta. Cervical sprain and strain, for instance, is one of the most common neck injuries in an accident. These typically occur during car wrecks when someone is rear-ended in the collision. As a result of impact,…
Investigations into a fatal car accident in Atlanta last week that killed a 24-year-old man are determining whether the club that the drunk driver worked at, could have done anything to prevent the accident. Last week, Christa Scott who worked as a waitress at the Midtown Bar was allegedly driving…
The Atlanta City Council is expected to approve the settlement of a lawsuit brought against the City by a 62-year-old woman who was jailed for asking a police officer “why” she and friends had to move from a sidewalk where they were talking about an upcoming funeral. A council committee…
Patients in Georgia with a Traumatic Brain Injury (“TBI”) often suffer symptoms of vertical heterophoria or visual misalignment. This kind of misalignment can increase stress and pressure on the eye muscles, which have to adjust to correct the alignment. The stress on the eye muscles contributes to symptoms like headaches,…
Atlanta medical malpractice lawyers and doctors have not exactly been unaware of the fact that hospital errors spike substantially in the month of July. There is even a name for this phenomenon, and it’s called the July Effect. Studies conducted earlier have shown a substantial increase in medication errors in…
It hasn’t been a great 2010 for Wal-Mart. Last month, a federal appeals court ruled that a class-action employment discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could proceed. That lawsuit is expected to be the largest such suit in American history, and is expected to include more than 1 million current and former…
A jury has awarded more than $14 million after deciding that the plaintiff contracted asbestos manufactured by Union Carbide at his family business during 1970s. The asbestos exposure caused him to contract a deadly form of abdominal cancer called mesothelioma. Mesothelioma also attacks the linings of the lungs and is…
Every year, approximately 100,000 people are killed from prescription errors. We lose many fewer people to highway accidents every year, and yet, there is far more federal money spent in preventing highway traffic fatalities. Eliminating human error from the doctor-pharmacist-patient chain may be hard, but not impossible. In the meantime,…
A study published in the May issue of the journal Pediatrics says that Spanish-speaking people in the United States are a higher risk of injury from prescription errors, because of poor translation. These errors are occurring in large numbers, because the computer programs that pharmacies rely on to translate prescriptions,…
Articaine is a local anesthetic that is used widely around the United States. Worldwide, more than 100 million dental patients are believed to be treated with Articaine every year. However, since the drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000 under the brand-name Septocaine, there has been…