New research provides yet another reason to quit smoking. A scientific analysis of 6,000 men showed a propensity for those who smoked to lose their Y chromosome. That’s bad news, according to the Swedish team that conducted the trial. “If cancer, heart disease, and emphysema weren’t bad enough, male smokers […]
Generic-drug costs are soaring. In 2014, so much inflation took place it prompted members of the Senate to push for the legalization of drug imports from Canada, as patients south of the border struggle to pay for their pills. According to reports, half of all generic drugs have experienced cost […]
Handing down the old family clunker to the teen driver in your household should be a tradition of years past, according to a new study. Older vehicles driven by freshly licensed 15, 16 and 17 year old drivers were involved in nearly half of all fatal teen automobile accidents, said […]
Candles, Clothes Dryers, Cooking — All Accidents Waiting To Happen Without Care, Caution Fire is one of earth’s four basic elements, but when it damages your home, it loses some of its beauty as a thing of nature. House fires are more common than they should be and often result […]
In JDSupra Business Advisor, Attorney Robert Rogers writes a summary of a recent Florida case, Nucci v. Target Corp., 40 Fla. L. Weekly D166a (Fla. 4th DCA Jan. 7, 2015). Mr. Rogers sets forth, “A Florida appellate court has ordered a plaintiff to produce photographs from her “private” Facebook page […]
Baking soda, sodium bicarbonate or NaHCO3 can do a lot more than freshen the refrigerator, neutralize pet odors, quiet sunburn pain and raise bread. The boxed white powder that has been marketed as a household product for decades also can kill cancer. Safer than chemotherapy and radiation, which kills all […]
Pesticides Contain Poisonous Chemicals While Air Fresheners Are Laced with Pollutants More than 33 million Americans are injured annually by common household products, resulting in a personal-safety nightmare that racks up $800 billion in related costs, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The leading culprit is magnets, which small […]
In the wide-eyed wake of an event coined “The Snappening,” users of social media, parents of tweens and teens and celebrities who have been hacked are pausing before posting. “The Snappening,” named after the application Snapchat, occurred in late 2014, when hackers captured and leaked 200,000 sensitive photos that were […]
We do not sue them. They will run up millions in costs for just one lawsuit, regardless of the actual damages . They will conduct a scorched earth defense and try to simply wait until the plaintiff dies. They are a “no holds barred” defendant and are reported to be […]
Uber. The cell-phone-based taxi service has stirred up a fair share of controversy this year while giving traditional cabbies a run for their money. In one camp are the Uber haters. They dis the slick service for spiking prices during peak periods of demand, scold it for seeking revenge on […]
