Personal Injury Blog

Neonatal abstinence syndrome, known as NAS, is the result of a baby being exposed to drugs while carried in the womb. NAS causes drug withdrawal in babies immediately after they are born. Opioid drugs, such as morphine, oxycodone, heroin, hydrocodone and codeine can cause NAS, as well as certain antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Sometimes, a pregnant[…]

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that children who are born two years or less after their mother’s had bariatric surgery are at an increased risk for perinatal complications. In this case, perinatal complications refer to health complications that present either in the weeks precipitating or immediately following[…]

While OSHA participated in Arkansas’s Second Annual Amputation Prevention Stand Down training seminar, training alone is not the most effective method for preventing work-related accidents.  Educating workers on equipment that is potentially unsafe is important; however, the most effective method to eliminate machine hazards is for equipment designers and manufacturers to provide the proper engineering[…]

When a person goes into the hospital for a surgical procedure, the last question to cross their mind may be: “what happens if the doctor does the wrong surgery?” But, as it turns out, sometimes doctors perform the wrong procedure altogether, and at other times they may do a surgery on the wrong site of[…]

Pennsylvania was granted an extension on the implementation of the REAL ID law. This law requires residents to have new, acceptable forms of identification to enter various federal facilities. If the REAL ID law had gone forward without an extension, by just next year no Pennsylvania driver’s licenses would have been viable forms of identification[…]