A crash between a car and a van in Virginia Beach, VA, on the morning of July 26, 2017, sent six people to hospitals with serious, but not life-threatening injuries. In all, eight people required medical treatment after the collision at the intersection of Independence Boulevard and Shelton Road. Police received the call…
A motorcycle rider died in Rockingham County, Virginia (VA), on July 4, 2017, when a driver crossed the center line of a rural state highway and struck the motorcyclist. The fatal crash happened on Route 601 outside of the town of Shenandoah, where the highway is also known as Rinaca’s Corner Road. Virginia…
On a traumatic brain injury survivor support group a recent question was posted. What is you biggest challenge right now? One reply read. “Unremitting headaches. Sleep deprivation, forgetting to eat, my persistent headache. I spend several days flat on my back in pain. I am young, fit, and I want to live a young, fit…
The captain who was in charge of the Jamestown-Scotland ferry that pulled away from a pier as a car was boarding has been terminated from his position with the Virginia Department of Transportation. He had been on suspension since the incident occurred last week when a 19-year-old Courtland woman had to swim to safety after…
The birth control method of “transcervical sterilization,” marketed as Essure, may be causing serious, painful and dangerous side effects in the women who use it, according to some health officials. Essure, which has been on the market since 2002, is an internal form of birth control. The device is a pair of small lengths of coil…