Norfolk Southern Unveils Zero-Emission Locomotive
Norfolk Southern unveiled an energy efficient locomotive prototype. Is this the future of rail trains?
Medical Device Safety a Neglected Priority
Tuesday’s Virginian-Pilot featured a front-page story I already knew all too well. In a nutshell, the story is that no one involved in the manufacture, regulation, sale or implantation of medical devices has a complete handle on ensuring that the devices are safe. The article relates case after case in which surgeons did not get…
Mestothelioma Suit Limits Leave Victims Without Protections
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…
Avandia Risks Keep Getting More Apparent
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…
Lawsuit involving Circuit City Airplane Crash that Killed Eight People Dismissed
Judge Robert Blackburn, a U.S. District court judge based in Denver, dismissed a lawsuit centered on a 2005 airplane accident that killed eight people in a Cessna Citation 560 jet owned by Circuit City. Four of the people who died in the plane crash were Circuit City employees and the plane was registered in Richmond,…