Every new study of GlaxoSmithKline’s type 2 diabetes drug Avandia shows the medication to less and less safe. My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon catalogs recent findings regarding Avandia’s risks for causing fatal heart attacks, liver damage and fractures in her latest post to the Virginia Beach Injuryboard. She concludes that the drug, known generically as…
There’s no question the drywall causing people to flee their homes due to potential health hazards and corroding appliances is from China. I repeat – there’s no debate that the drywall potentially causing cancer and obliterating the value of people’s homes was shipped from China. However, China is deflecting any legal responsibility and simply ignoring…
Dorothy Kuykendall, 76, has cancer. She has cancer because, as a factory worker during the 1970s, she often handled asbestos without adequate safeguards. She is one of the tens of thousands of Americans. Occupational exposures to asbestos cause a wide array of lung diseases, ranging from the tuberculosis-like asbestosis in which the fine mineral fibers…
Matthew Ward, a 19-year-old young man was driving along in his Ford Ranger pick-up truck when he failed to yield the right of way on a left turn causing an accident with a Toyota Camray along Route 130 and Route 29 in Madison Heights, Virginia (VA). Six people were injured in the accident, including an…
Great Pee Dee River Bridge on U.S. Highway 76 was closed off for hours after a major traffic accident killed two people and many others were seriously injured, according to SCnow.com. The accident included an 18-wheeler, a dump truck, and two cars collided on the bridge. The victims were Curtis L. Johnson of Hartwell, Georgia…