A new study reveals that conducting surgeries earlier when treating spinal cord injuries could lead to better results and less damage to injury victims. Currently, surgeries for spinal cord injuries are usually performed five days or more after the injury occurred. The surgery is intended to hopefully fix the spine…
Actress Lindsay Lohan will has been ordered by a judge to appear in court on April 7 for the personal injury lawsuit filed against her in an October 2005 motor vehicle accident. The 21-year-old actress is being sued by the man whose van collided with Lohan’s Mercedes-Benz. Los Angeles Superior…
Drug manufacturer Cephalon Inc. is reporting that four people died after they improperly used FENTORA, a powerful painkiller. Cephalon says that FENTORA, newly approved by the FDA, is only supposed to be used by cancer patients that are already taking prescription narcotics, such as morphine, for their pain. According to…
The Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland could lose its Medicare funding. Investigations by the state have found that some of the hospital’s patients have not been getting the proper diets ordered by their physicians, and this oversight may have caused their health problems to worsen. One of the hospitals patients,…
Victor Z. Kolako, the former metrobus driver who killed two female pedestrians on Valentine’s Day in a deadly motor vehicle accident, pled guilty to two counts of negligent homicide last Friday. As part of his plea agreement, prosecutors will pursue a prison sentence of no more than three years for…
Brielle Newland, a 19-year-old sophomore from University of Maryland Eastern Shore, died on Monday in a multi-car crash on U.S. 50 close to Tarbutton Mill Road in Talbott County. She had been riding in a 2002 Hyundai Accent driven by Jacquell Dendy, a UMES student from Gwynn Oak. The car…
Ellicott City residents David Destino and his 13-year-old son Michael died on Friday in a traffic collision involving a dump truck and three cars. David’s wife, Mary, was taken to Baltimore Shock Trauma where she was checked in under reportedly critical condition. Mary was among four people that suffered personal…
Police in Maryland are reminding drivers to “exercise caution, especially when children are involved… while driving anywhere near a school bus.” The warning comes in the wake of the new school year and efforts by state and local law enforcement departments to make this school year a safe one with…
Toy company Toys ‘R’ Us and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) say that they are recalling approximately 27,000 Imaginarium wooden coloring cases that were manufactured in China because the ink printed outside the cases have lead. Some of the black watercolor paint used is also said to have…
A jury in Maryland has ordered Cecil County to pay Karl Dorman, a 34-year-old Elkton man who lost his right leg in a 2002 motorcycle accident, $3.2 million. Dorman sued Cecil County for personal injury after his leg was severed during his motorcycle crash where a pickup truck collided with…