A Las Vegas clinic has been accused of reusing single-dose vials and syringes leading to the largest national hepatitis C scare the U.S. has seen. Officials say up to 40,000 people may be at risk for contracting the disease, as well as being exposed to HIV. Since January, six patients have been diagnosed with hepatitis […]
Alleged Nursing Home Abuse in a Place that Doesn’t Exist
When you take your loved ones to a nursing home, it can be an emotionally draining experience. Now, imagine that nursing home doesn’t “exist” in a legal sense. That’s exactly what has happened in Glens Falls, New York, where the Eden Park Health Care Center was found to be operating illegally. Glens Falls Crossings In […]
Drug Ad Deception Brings Down Lipitor’s Famous Face
How the mighty fall. Dr. Robert Jarvik was recently fired as the pitchman for Lipitor by Pfizer. The advertising practice Pfizer used for its cholesterol lowering drug, Lipitor, has been called into question by a Congressional committee investigating the ads’ credibility. The problem is that the ads are deceptive. Dr. Jarvik helped to pioneer the […]
Time for a Rewrite?
In 1857, when the Oregon constitution was written, the law claimed that the only way you could recover damages from an assailant was if they injured you, not if they killed you. So, if someone got into a fight over something, it was better to kill the opponent so the attacker didn’t have to pay […]
O.J. Tests Long Arm of the Law and Loses. Again.
Remember, during the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial, when Johnnie Cochran said, “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit”? Some people might remember that, but most may only remember the recent reasons Simpson has been in the news. The book Simpson wrote called If I Did It, whose rights were signed over to Fred […]
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