When something terrible happens, people affected often end up in the emergency room. Victims of violent crime and those who experience catastrophic accidents often need emergency care. However, plenty of people who don't have an actual medical emergency also come to...
New safety features come out regularly for vehicles. Things that weren’t even thought of years ago are now standard on many vehicles. Because of these improvements, many older vehicles can’t compare to the newer ones from a safety standpoint. Anyone who’s considering...
Doctors can miss heart attack signs in both men and women, but statistics show that this happens to female patients far more often, especially if they're young. This is problematic on many levels, first and foremost of which is that misdiagnosis may cause that patient...
Many patients never meet the radiologist who has studied their mammogram, ultrasound, MRI or another type of scan. They may just see a name at the bottom of a report – if they even see that. Radiologists are highly trained professionals whose findings doctors rely on...
Easily one of the worst – and too often deadly – types of car crashes is one caused by a wrong-way driver. Here in the Las Vegas valley, wrong-way crashes have been a serious problem for the past five years. State officials are concerned with the number of wrong-way...
Patients in hospitals count on doctors and nurses to take good care of them. They don’t think that they’ll be harmed because those professionals are negligent. Unfortunately, medication errors do occur in these facilities. Patients can try their best to remain safe by...
Parents want their children to remain as safe as possible. One of the best ways to do this in a vehicle is to have the child in a proper restraint. For younger children, this means having them in a booster seat or car seat, depending on their height and weight. One...
Movies sometimes play wrong-way drivers for laughs, but there’s nothing funny about the very real tragedies they cause. Just recently, a woman traveling the wrong way on I-15 in Nevada slammed straight into a pickup truck, killing herself and three other people....
A lot of Americans felt like they got to know five-five “Jeopardy!” champion Brayden Smith during the young man’s time on the show. They were understandably shocked, then, when he died just a short time after his last appearance on the show. Worse still, it’s now...
One of the most effective ways to beat cancer in its many forms is getting an early diagnosis followed by immediate treatment. Unfortunately, some cancers are infamously hard to diagnose in their early stages. When doctors fail to diagnose cancers correctly, several...
