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The news website Fair Warning reports that a chemical found in common household products, as well as a contaminant in groundwater, has been linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) in a new study. Published in the Annals of Neurology, the study looked at 99 sets of twins in which one of the twins suffered from Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that is progressive and causes uncontrollable shaking. The st [...]

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 8,600 people visited hospital emergency rooms in the year 2010 for fireworks-related injuries. Fireworks, both legal and illegal, have the potential to cause serious burn injuries to adults and children. Young adults under the age of 20 accounted for more than half of all fireworks-related accidents. This [...]

Any Philadelphia dram shop lawyer will tell you that drunk driving in Pennsylvania is one of the most dangerous things a person can do. It not only puts their own life at risk, but also the lives of anyone in their car and others on the road. It is shocking to learn that almost 30 individuals are killed every day in car crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver, according to the Centers for Disease Control an [...]

Kimberly Reed of Media, PA was awarded $5 million in damages after she filed a suit against a Ridley Park dermatologist. According an article in the Delaware County Times, her suit claims that her cancer was not diagnosed in its early stages by her dermatologist. Her face became disfigured from multiple surgeries for cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, skin cancer is the most commo [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that an autopsy of Owen Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania football player who committed suicide in April, showed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This disease could have been caused by head trauma and may have led to his suicide. His mother believes Thomas never had a concussion. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. Accor [...]

Philly.com reported that Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry suffered from a chronic brain injury that might have influenced his mental state and behavior before he died in December 2009. Doctors performed a microscopic tissue analysis of Henry’s brain that showed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Co-directors of the Brain Injury Research Institute at West Virginia University announce [...]

Mary Ann Bower, a former nurse in a Pittsburgh-area nursing home was convicted of abusing a 94-year-old patient with Alzheimer’s disease. She will have to pay a fine of $300 and she may lose her nursing certificate in this personal injury lawsuit. According to an article from Wfmj.com, Bower was convicted after employees at the Kane Regional Center in Glen Hazel, Pa said that she flicked water in the face of The [...]

The New York Times reported that former NHL player Reggie Fleming, who played for the Flyers among five other teams and died in July, had brain damage due to repeated head trauma. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Times said that this links hockey for the first time to a condition usually found in boxers. Fleming, who spent 12 seasons in the NHL, was found by Boston University researchers t [...]

The government is investigating if heart attack survivors enrolled in a controversial federal study of an alternative treatment were told about possible health risks. According to this article, the $30 million study with 1,500 participants, is one of the largest alternative medicine experiments. It tests high doses of vitamin and mineral supplements and chelation, a treatment used for lead poisoning. It has not be [...]