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For years, we’ve been hearing about the link between smoking and lung cancer. But the sad truth is that lung cancer in non-smokers is much more common than people realize. In fact, lung cancer in …
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An Oakland, California jury has awarded $2 billion in punitive damages to Alva and Alberta Pilliod after concluding that continued exposure to Roundup weed killer was responsible for the couple’s …
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African-American, Native American, and Alaska Native women are nearly three times more likely to die from health issues arising before or immediately after pregnancy than white women, according to a …
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Newborn babies are at a much higher risk of developing meningitis than any other age group. This is primarily because infants’ immune systems are not fully developed and are more prone to viruses and …
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Abusing and exploiting the elderly and individuals with developmental disabilities happens more than any of us would like to think. Unfortunately, because these people tend to be viewed as weak, …
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Each year, more than one million hernia repair surgeries are performed in the U.S. alone. And for many of those operations, surgical mesh is the medical device doctors use to strengthen the repair, …
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Expert testimony by a researcher who has been working with the Boy Scouts of America reveals that there may have been as many as 7,819 sexually abusive troop leaders and volunteers in the …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered two manufacturers to immediately stop selling a type of surgical mesh used to repair pelvic collapse in women.
The order comes on the heels …
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The Los Angeles Times recently won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for its series of stories on a former gynecologist at the University of Southern California (USC) accused of sexually …
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While Bayer – the manufacturer of Roundup weed killer – has stated publicly that it has no intention of settling thousands of lawsuits charging that its product causes cancer, the company is now …
