THE METALLOSIS-CANCER CONNECTION Is it possible that metallosis can act to prevent cancer or to stop its spread? Metallosis is the phenomenon that occurs when tiny particles of chromium and cobalt break off from metal-on-metal hip implants, enter the blood stream, and thence travel throughout…
North Carolina hospitals in Greensboro, High Point and Winston Salem have got some improvements to make when it comes to patient safety. Both Moses Cone Hospital and High Point Medical Center have been demoted from “A” to “B” in recently released evaluations performed by the…
According to the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), 2018 had the lowest rates of car crashes, injuries, and fatalities across the state since 2014. Statistics in Guilford County followed the same downward trend in number of crashes and injuries, but had higher fatality rates…
With associate Emily J. Beeson. Many people have been anxiously awaiting news on if and when DePuy would begin paying out on thousands of claims that arose after August 31, 2013. Image / Hip Replacement Survivors If you had a DePuy ASR hip implant revision…
Recipients of the DePuy Pinnacle hip implant must wait a while longer before resolving their claims. The DePuy Pinnacle hip device was never recalled, but was taken off the market in 2012. Thousands of lawsuits from across the nation have been consolidated in front of…
Ocean Isle Beach, NC– 21 injured after deck collapsed at Ocean Isle Beach(OIB), raising concerns about building codes. Twenty-one people were taken to various hospitals after the second-story deck of the condominium they were in collapsed onto a concrete patio below. Victims were treated for…
According to police, Mitchell Mclean, the chief district court judge for Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany and Yadkin counties, died on Wednesday trying to save a woman who was caught up in a rip tide at Sunset Beach. Mclean, 54, was a law school…
Distracted driving caused by using a cell phone has been big news recently. Chapel Hill, N.C., became the first town in the nation to pass a complete ban on cell phone use while driving, as we…
People don’t like to be uncomfortable. Minor aches and pains and fever can make everyday living unpleasant. That is why many people turn to Naproxen sodium, an internal analgesic available in…
In what may be the first court case involving North Carolina’s two-year texting ban, Andrew James Watkins, age 25, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor death by vehicle this past week. The accident,…
It’s sad when a little boy says he doesn’t want to ride his bike anymore. But we can at least be thankful that a family doesn’t have much, much more to be sad about in this hit-and-run case in…
What does John Edwards know that we don’t know? He has been indicted on charges of misusing nearly $1 million in political donations to hide his affair with mistress Rielle Hunter and…
