Twenty-year-old Erin Feeney was born with cerebral palsy that affects both her muscle use and speech. However, through the use of yoga programs designed for people with special needs, she has been able manage the effects of her condition. The Chicago Tribune recently reported on Feeney, who has performed specialized yoga for one hour a [...]
“When life depends on it, you use asbestos” is the ironic tag line on a 1981 poster advertisement touting the use of asbestos in the World Trade Center in New York. Long before terrorism represented a global threat, asbestos posed a serious danger to people who lived and worked in structures that used the toxic [...]
The United Nations headquarters in New York City often plays host to the post powerful political leaders on earth. With that in mind, it may be concerning to some that the building is still undergoing abatement procedures to remove dangerous mesothelioma-causing asbestos products. Mesothelioma Research: According to the Associated Press, the UN headquarters is currently [...]
Byetta Lawsuit: Runaway oncogenes and defective tumor suppressor genes would seem to provide a full explanation of why cancer cells grow uncontrollably. Mutant versions of these two classes of genes conspire to make cells grow when, by all rights, they should be resting and inactive. This collaboration was illustrated graphically by the case of colon [...]
Pradaxa Side Effects: It is a fact—-smoking doubles the risk of having a stroke. That’s right, you are twice as likely to have a disabling stroke if you smoke. Smoking has a major distinction: it is the most pre”ventable of all the risks for stroke. Simple. But, as anyone who has ever smoked knows, quit”ting [...]
Without proper maintenance, things tend to fall apart, erode, disintegrate and decay over time. This is true of paper, cars and even our homes and public buildings. Because many structures were built with asbestos materials, their decay could represent a real danger to those who live or work in and around them. Mesothelioma Prognosis: In [...]
Yaz Class Action Lawsuit: Your doctor will perform the first examination for incontinence or prolapse in the same way as all gynecologic exams are done. The doctor will have you lie on your back on the examining table with your feet in stirrups. The uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries will be examined to make sure [...]
Byetta Lawyer: We now realize that anticancer therapies usually operate very differently. The doses of chemotherapeutics and X-rays that succeed in killing cancer cells do not in fact inflict massive destruction on their genomes. Instead, these treatments create just enough damage to activate and in turn the programmed cell death response. So cancer therapy does [...]
Pradaxa Side Effects:It’s called a thrombosis, the most common form of stroke. In fact, 80-85 percent of all strokes are ischemic in nature. Here, the blood flow in the brain, either deep in its interior or in the less deep carotid artery in the neck, is blocked because of a clot that forms in the [...]
Throughout history, asbestos has been used for products ranging from textiles to building materials. It was prized for its ability to reduce fire danger in buildings. But asbestos also leads to deadly diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestosis, and, before we knew all the risks, asbestos was a popular building material throughout the 19th- and [...]