A new study financed by a section of the National Institutes of Health has made the first potential connection to an individual’s genetics and susceptibility to eventually developing deadly asbestos illnesses such as mesothelioma. The study, which was recently published online in Nature Genetics, found evidence that people with BAP1 gene mutations may have an [...]
Medical liability cases against obstetricians and other doctors who participate in the birthing process are most often spurred by errors in clinical judgment, miscommunication between doctors, and technical mistakes. All of these errors can potentially result in a birth injury occurring that may remain with the newborn child for their entire lives. According to a [...]
Aside from legal ads on TV, many Americans don’t know what asbestos is or where it can be found, let alone that exposure to this dangerous material can result in the development of an asbestos-related cancer such as mesothelioma. In fact, mesothelioma occurs in such a small number of patients – it’s estimated that only [...]
With Mesothelioma Awareness Day coming up on Monday, September 26th, we thought it apt to highlight the top ten products we were surprised to find that are still being manufactured today with the use of the known carcinogen, asbestos. Asbestos exposure has long been known to cause mesothelioma as well as other cancers and diseases. [...]
California Mesothelioma Attorney : Mesothelioma has a very long latency period (the time from the initial asbestos exposure to the development of cancer), making it doubly treacherous. This latency period can be anywhere from 25 to 40 years. The length of time it takes patients to report symptoms varies but can range from two weeks [...]
Lung Cancer Lawsuit: Patients with Lung Cancer (stage I or II disease), bone scanning and CT of the brain are not recommended in the absence of related symptoms. A bone scan should be performed only if the patient complains of bone pain. Plain radio graphic films of the affected area should be obtained to supplement [...]
Carrier IQ Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/26/2012: Physical privacy is the right to be free from unwanted, unreasonable intrusions into, or searches of, one’s body. It is concerned with bodily integrity (and, indirectly, emotional integrity, together with human dignity). Issues revolving around physical privacy include schemes for compulsory immunisation, blood transfusion without consent, compulsory provision [...]
Cell Phone Class Action Lawsuit News – 1/27/2012: While it may have been the telephone that shifted the privacy debate from the physical to the electronic, it was the advent of the computer that presented law and policy makers with their biggest challenge. First produced in 1946, by the early 1970s the computer’s threat to [...]
Cell Phone Class Action Lawsuit News – 1/27/2012: The most pervasive individual Web privacy concerns stems from secondary use of information, defined as personal information collected for one purpose and used, subsequently, for a different purpose (Culnan, 1993). Studies suggests that (a) users are more willing to provide personal information when they are not identified, [...]
Cell Phone Class Action Lawsuit News- 1/27/2012: RFID readers, GPS phones and motes all emit electromagnetic energy over the airwaves and cover areas as large as six square acres (Albrecht & McIntyre, 2004). Further, readers are installed and operational in walls, floors, doorways, shelving, cars, security, and payment devices with RFID slated for release in [...]