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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, the person’s head snaps backward and then forward again, with great force. This can cause muscle and ligament tears or, even worse, a cervical disc injury.

Neck pain can also be caused by a spinal injury in an accident. The intervertebral disc can herniate, and this can lead to constant neck pain which can radiate through the shoulders, arms and down the back. Such neck pain can be treated through a cervical fusion surgery.
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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 a car under the influence when her vehicle rammed into a car being driven by 24-year-old Jordan Griner. Griner took the full impact of the accident, and was declared dead on arrival at the hospital. It would take emergency rescue personnel more than 30 minutes to extricate him from the mangled wreckage. Griner was an intern at Gov. Sonny Purdue’s office.
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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 has accepted the city attorney’s recommendation to settle the case, but the settlement must be approved by the entire city council. The claimant spent almost 10 hours in jail on a charge of disorderly conduct brought by an officer who already had a troubled history with the Atlanta Police Department.
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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, dizziness, anxiety, neck pain and difficulty in reading. These are known as postconcussive symptoms, and in approximately 10 % to 25% of patients who suffer from a brain injury, can be seen even years after the injury has occurred.
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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 the month of July, but there have been no conclusive results from these studies until very recently. However, doctors have always believed that this increase is because of inexperienced new medical residents, who turn up at hospitals in July. A new study now confirms this.
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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 Wal-Mart workers who allege that they suffered gender-based discrimination at the retailer over the past decade. This month, the company agreed to pay up to $86 million in settlement of a lawsuit, which claims that the company failed to pay workers unpaid wages.
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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 almost always fatal. While mesothelioma has an extremely long latency period (the period of time between the exposure to asbestos and the manifestation of the disease) of 30 years or longer, once it is diagnosed, the life expectancy of the victim is very short.

Jurors found that Union Carbide was negligent for selling asbestos fibers to other companies, which had used the fibers to make joint compounds used by construction companies. An important fact established in the trial was that, although the asbestos products that the plaintiff was exposed to contained deadly asbestos fibers, the product packaging did not contain adequate warnings nor did the labels warn that the products contained asbestos. This is known as a failure to warn claim.

Jurors also found that four of the compound manufacturers, including Georgia-Pacific, share some of the responsibility for causing the complained of illness. It is not uncommon to find that as many as 20 or 30 asbestos-containing products were located at a factory or plant in the 1970’s or 1980’s. Asbestos, which is a natural product and mined from the earth, was widely used in many insulation products, safety equipment, fire proofing, fire bricks, flooring materials, ceiling tiles, roofing shingles and many other products.

In April 2008, jurors awarded more than $24 million to a doctor who contracted the same illness.

While many of the traditional asbestos defendants have filed for and received bankruptcy protection, there are a number of asbestos injury trusts that have been set up to compensate asbestos victims for their injuries. The first step in this type of litigation is for the victim to complete a work history survey which details every job the victim has had. This should include the dates of the job, location, duties performed and an exhaustive list of asbestos-containing products the victim remembers working with or around. This will also be supplemented with a list of co-workers at each location who may be able to help identify asbestos-containing products that were known to be used at the work location by others who may have been working side-by-side with the plaintiff.
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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, there are steps that you can take to prevent the 10 most common prescription errors.

According to Caring.com, the 10 most common prescription errors are:
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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, are vastly inadequate.

The researchers surveyed several pharmacies. They found that four out of every five pharmacies, depended on computers to translate prescriptions. Almost all of them claimed that they got the prescriptions re-checked manually, but the researchers found far too many errors in translation. The likely take-away: relying on a computer program to translate prescriptions is inadequate, at best, and in many cases constitutes malpractice. Couple that with the reality that too many pharmacists are over-worked and simply do not have time to double-check the computer. The fact that these errors are taking place is proof that, even though they claim to be manually re-checking computer translated prescriptions, these pharmacists are actually re-checking the prescriptions.
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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 concern about its links to lingual nerve damage.

There has been substantial research into the lingual nerve injury risks of using Septocaine. In 2005, the Danish Medicines Agency published a report, which studied the risks from the use of this nerve block in dental treatment. The study was done to deal with concerns that Septocaine was linked to a high number of cases of lingual nerve damage reported to the Danish Dental Association, and reports of side effects reported to the Danish Medicines Agency. Danish authorities were particularly concerned about the development of paresthesia from the use of Septocaine. The study concluded that there needed to be more research into this issue. However, in an apparent acknowledgment of the link between Septocaine nerve blocks and lingual nerve damage, the Septocaine package insert was changed to reflect the high incidence of Septocaine nerve blocks resulting in lingual nerve damage.
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