Sepsis is a sometimes fatal complication of an infection which occurs when chemicals released into a person’s bloodstream to fight the infection trigger inflammatory responses throughout the body. These inflammatory responses can cause a multitude of changes which can damage multiple organ systems. This can lead to organ failure and death. A recent study…
“Disability is isolation,” said a man whose leg was amputated after a serious injury. It’s this type of realization that many victims of amputation injuries are forced to cope with after an accident. A Canadian man was walking between two areas in a mall that was under construction when he was struck and run over by…
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has announced it has implemented safety improvement measures at one of the highest car crash rate sites in Montgomery County. The agency will be installing new traffic safety signs at the intersection of U.S. Route 460 and Main St., near the Blacksburg town limits. According to statistics from the…
At 24-years-old you have your whole life ahead of you. Most of us at that age were working towards some goal in life whether it was a career, an education or a family. A young man in Kansas, Zachary Short, was helping to harvest a soybean field when his future and perhaps his life was…
A key ruling in an ongoing whistleblower case against Wisconsin Central Ltd. by an injured railroad mechnic who alleges he was improperly suspended strengthens job protections for all rail employees. In holding that the railroad could not enforce an arbitrary time limit for reporting an on-the-job injury, the judge in Smith-Bunge v. Wisconsin Central, Ltd. held that…