According to the National Safety Council, there were approximately 40,000 people killed in car crashes last year. This is almost a 15 percent spike in the number of fatal car accidents from 2014, the biggest surge in a two-year period in more than five decades. Although there is no way to completely insulate yourself from…
As summer approaches, more motorcyclists will take to North Carolina roads. This is a good time to remind drivers to “look twice and save a life” on the state’s roads. According to statistics from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, in 2015, 60 percent of all fatal motorcycle crashes happened between May and September. July…
According to a new study more than 20 percent of patients who sought a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic – known as one of the country’s premier medical institutions – had been misdiagnosed by their primary care physicians. Getting a Second Opinion The study, which has been published in the Journal of Evaluation in…
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that a recall has been issued for almost 600,000 asthma inhalers. The recall has been issued because there may be potential issues with the delivery system. The inhalers are manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and involve the Ventolin HFA 200D inhalers. Affected lot numbers are 6ZP0003, 6ZP9944, and 6ZP9848. These…
A 56-year old man from St. Louis, Va. was killed last week when a tractor-trailer plowed into the motorcycle the victim was driving. The fatal crash occurred at the intersection of Carpers Pike (Va. 259) and Northwestern Pike (U.S. 50) in Gore. According to details released by law enforcement, the truck driver, a 58-year-old New…