According to a project launched by The Guardian and KHN (Kaiser Health News) called Lost on the Frontline, almost 600 healthcare workers have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic first hit the United States. The death toll includes healthcare workers like nurses, doctors and paramedics along with support staff like hospital administrators, nursing home workers,[…]

In some hospitals across the country, there is an influx of young patients seeking emergency medical care and treatment for their COVID-19-related symptoms and complications. At the onset of the pandemic, the majority of emergency room (ER) patients were around 65-years-old.  Now, medical professionals report seeing more patients between the ages of 25 and 45.[…]

According to reports from the National Safety Council (NSC), speed is a factor in roughly one-third of all deadly car accidents, killing more than 9,000 men, women, and children every year. Despite the fact that speed is one of the most preventable – and controllable – factors of nonfatal and fatal car accidents, it continues[…]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that every second of the day, an older individual falls. As such, falls are the leading cause of death (as well as the frontrunner for nonfatal injuries) for Americans who are 65-years-old and above. 30,000 senior citizens die from injuries they sustain from falls every year[…]

A Missouri-based three-judge panel recently upheld a $2.1 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson lodged by plaintiffs claiming that the company used asbestos-laced talc in their baby powder products, resulting in ovarian cancer and other serious and potentially deadly injuries. J&J has a long history of disputing scientific evidence that links its products to asbestos[…]