Atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the United States, was found in drinking water at unsafe levels in four states: Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Ohio (OH), and Kansas (KS). An analysis performed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the yearly average levels of atrazine in drinking water violated the federal standard…
A Charlotte man was struck and killed by a train in a northeast section of the city recently. Mecklenburg County Police report that the Norfolk Southern Railway accident occurred about 5:40 a.m. Saturday on Rozzelles Ferry Road at Toddville Road. First responders blocked off the intersection of Toddville Road and closed off one lane of…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it “is reviewing adverse event reports of liver injury in patients taking the weight loss drug orlistat, marketed as the prescription drug Xenical and the over-the-counter medication Alli.” Thus, the poor safety record of weight-loss drugs seems unblemished. Or, more accurately, as filled with blemishes as…
Virginia’s oversight of commercial day care centers for children require a major overhaul, my colleague Jim Lewis notes in his most recent post to the Virginia Beach Injuryboard. EJL
After a man drove the wrong way on U.S. 321, a North Carolina woman has died and two others were injured as he slammed into a pickup truck. It is still not known why the driver ended up going in the wrong direction. According to the Hickory Daily Record 71-year-old Daisy Mae Christopher Buff died…