It would be comforting to know that the large pharmaceutical companies are wonderful corporate citizens whose primary purpose in life is to develop drugs and medical devices that will improve the quality of life for everyone on earth. And if you watch enough of the drug industry’s incessant advertising and marketing efforts, which now total […]
Archives for 2008
Teach Teenagers How to Drink: Preventing Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Our current approach to teaching young people the truths about alcohol and our efforts to instill in young people responsible attitudes toward drinking simply do not work. The body of evidence that reveals our failures is huge. Binge drinking by college students, fraternity hazings that involve poisonous quantities of alcohol, deaths from massive alcohol consumption […]
Personal Injury Prevention: Sit Back from Air Bags, Children in the Backseat
Air bags and seat belts save lives. But airbags can cause permanent injuries and death from spinal cord and brain injuries, especially in children and anyone of short stature who sits in the front seat close to the steering wheel or dashboard. Massive decelerations in crashes occur in one-tenth of a second. That is faster […]
Dumping Mentally Ill Children – Adoption Fraud Causes Severe Personal Injuries to Families
Contra Costa County was sued on August 1, 2008 for child dumping and breaking California’s law that requires adoption agencies to tell adopting parents everything known about a child’s background. A complete medical, psychological, school and family history must be given to adopting parents before the adoption. That didn’t happen for Mamie and Mark Johnson […]
Concealing Defective Tires that Caused Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
It is somewhat metaphorical that the industry that promotes rubber tried to screw the American consumer by keeping essential safety information from becoming public knowledge. But thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the law is very clear; defective automobile tire data must be made public.