Despite endless back-to-school sales and Halloween displays, summer isn’t over. That’s good news for the crowd that enjoys being able to indulge in balmy August days and temperate September evenings. It’s also a reminder to everyone to remain vigilant about seasonal accidental deaths.
According to the National Safety Council (NSC), accidental deaths peak during the warmest months of the year. (In other words, now....
Dr. Vinita Parkash, professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine, recently wrote a commentary featured in WBUR-Boston’s opinion section, Cognoscenti. In the commentary, she recalls a mistake she made earlier in her career: She failed to identify cancer cells when examining a tissue sample from a 42-year-old woman. That woman later died of cancer.
Parkash notes that diagnostic errors receive less attention than oth...
In Philadelphia, tourists can take a sightseeing trip aboard an oddly shaped amphibious vehicle called a Duck. Ride The Ducks has locations in Philly, three other cities, and Guam, and other similar Duck tour companies are located throughout the United States. Some people wonder, though, whether these vehicles should be permanently placed in dry dock.
In May, a Ride the Ducks vehicle fatally struck a pedestrian in Philad...
David E. Sternberg and Steven G. Wigrizer, partners in the law firm Wapner Newman, have filed a negligence suit against the Barber National Institute on behalf of the estates of the two residents who died in an April fire at the Millcreek Township group home. The men, Guy Lombard and Jeff DiLoreto, were killed in a fire begun when an employee of the Millcreek Township group home fell asleep without extinguishing a cigaret...