An asbestos victim who has contracted the asbestos cancer mesothelioma has won a massive twenty million dollars after contracting the disease through exposure to asbestos on a secondary basis. The woman, and nursing professor, is thought to have been exposed to asbestos through washing clothing.
It is claimed that she used to wash her grandfather’s […]

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When you start to poke around in the Haleigh Cummings story there is one re-occurring theme, drugs. Drugs are everywhere you look. It does not seem to matter if you talk Croslin, Cummings, or Sheffield, at some point the use of illicit drugs enters the picture. It has been widely reported that babysitter/lover/wife/divorcee teenage Misty […]

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Sometimes I really hate my job. I feel so helpless when I read about all the missing children and I somehow find my heart getting so close to some of them just from following their cases. It gives me great pleasure when I read one that I have written about is found unharmed, but it […]

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Well I was right, it was an interesting 90 minutes. Not without it’s technical challenges, but what would a live program be without some challenges?
I was very happy that country band ‘front man’ Sam Watkins decided to take part. Sam Watkins was the person that put on the benefit concert for Haleigh Cummings in Austin, […]

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Early this morning the entire file of the Bar complaint filed against Kim Picazio by Crystal Sheffield and her mother Marie Griffis was released. We are still pouring over the documents, but to say the least they make for some interesting reading.
Much of what was speculated about on the radio program yesterday is contained in […]

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Chance and Chloe quietly enter the Chancellor Mansion. He tells Chloe she doesn’t have to worry, the doctor released him and even signed the release form. He says he just didn’t want the women folk to fuss over him and he says as he looks at Chloe well except for one certain woman that is.
Cane […]

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“Physician, heal thyself!”
      –Luke 4:23
Now that healthcare employers take disruptive workplace behavior seriously, and a major survey has indicated that physicians cause the majority of it, what are they doing to change the situation?
According to Dr. Barry Silbaugh, CEO of the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE), one effective method is based on the engineering concept […]

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Politically correct speech, like so many societal trends, has reached an extreme level.
According to Wikipedia, politically correct speech began innocuously in the 1793 Supreme Court decision of Chisholm v Georgia regarding an inaccurate statement.
During World War I, Arnold Bennett, a British Ministry Officer, used the expression regarding appropriateness.
Since WW I, there has been a steady […]

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Actress Amanda Tapping (left) and TV writer and producer Damian Kindler have launched a new not-for-profit foundation to help disadvantaged children. The foundation is linked to the  television series Sanctuary, which airs on Syfy in the United States. Tapping stars in the series and is an executive producer with Kindler. They have launched the foundation […]

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A study is to be performed into the effects that vermiculite mining has had on the health of residents and their offspring in the town of Libby in Montana. This is where the W R Grace vermiculite mine was located, and the town has a high rate of asbestos cancer.
An announcement was made by researches […]

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More than half our states are being forced to slash their budgets in light of tax losses with the recession:

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=711
Needless to say such budget cuts will mean the loss of jobs in nearly every area from medicine and teaching to repairing our crumbling infrastructures (bridges, roads, etc.). I see far too few people drawing this […]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in which they employ mules to receive goods […]

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One of the frustrating things when working in child maternal health in poor countries is trying to integrate medical aims into the cultural background of the people, without destroying it.
This NYTimes story, about trying to get the Mullahs in Afghanistan to approve of their people using birth control, is a good example of how to […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YJPdBHbP4
The above YouTube video tells the horrific story of Ray Fox, the man who claims he and his family were contaminated by illegal unauthorized toxic outflow from a Shell terminal in Earley, near Reading in the UK. At one stage, Ray was treated by a specialist in Germany for radioactive poisoning.
Almost a year […]

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