By now, you've probably seen commercials on television warning about the dangers of something called "transvaginal mesh." And, if you're anything like the thousands of Americans who entered the question into their Google search bars this past year, you've probably...
Personal Injury
Yale research team questions breast cancer screening costs
If you spend more money on diagnostic screenings for breast cancer, that should logically equate to more accurate diagnoses and, ultimately, less money expended on treatment.That is the premise that a medical team from the Yale School of Medicine regarded as...
Breast cancer misdiagnosis, mammograms and Hispanic women
Too much or too little?That is a central question often debated when it comes to considerations surrounding breast cancer, particularly the misdiagnosis of breast cancer.The query is squarely focused upon routine diagnostic testing, which primarily means scheduled...
New efforts note, seek to reduce mothers’ delivery-related injuries
Increasingly, medical experts and public health officials are noting that serious complications arising from childbirth are as frequently visited upon birth mothers as they are on newborns with severe birth injuries.Although safety programs aimed at bettering...
Lawsuit alleges negligence in falling bridge, chemical spill
It didn't take long for scores of residents from the Borough of Paulsboro, a small community of about 6,100 people in Gloucester County, to file a personal injury lawsuit seeking compensatory and punitive damages for negligence and trespass in the wake of a recent...
OSHA releases yearly list of top workplace safety concerns
Safety and the protection of the American worker from personal injury and workplace accidents is the stated mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in New Jersey and throughout the rest of the United States.Pursuant to that aim, the agency...
NFL embraces technology to help deal with players’ head injuries
Although it might not be the industry in which head injuries -- traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), including concussions -- are most prevalent, dissuading any regular viewer of professional football games of that fact might make for a difficult proposition.Head trauma...
Delayed diagnosis may cause major harm for New Jersey patients
Most New Jersey readers have probably never heard of valley fever, an illness caused by fungal spores most common in the southern United States. Valley fever is difficult to diagnose and rare in many parts of the United States, but health experts say that even in...
Material updates in the national meningitis tragedy
We informed readers in a prior blog post (please see our October 23 entry) that we would keep them fully apprised of material developments unfolding regarding the nation's tragic meningitis outbreak that first surfaced last month.As of the date that post was written,...
Major medical journal announces new publishing rule on drug trials
Citing her publication's expectation "that eventually this will become the norm," the editor of the internationally prominent British Medical Journal recently discussed a material change in the journal's publishing guidelines relating to drug companies' clinical...
