If you own a Nissan, Toyota, Chrysler, Honda, or Ford, you’ll want to know about these new recalls. More Airbag Problems More than 2 millions Toyota, Chrysler, and Honda vehicles are being recalled because airbags may deploy suddenly even if there is no crash. This problem was supposed to have been fixed in an earlier […]
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The New York Times has reported on new research that links scores of earthquakes to fracking wells near a fault in Ohio. The research, published in The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, says that fracking in Ohio built up underground pressures, which then caused earthquakes along a fault near the wells. According to
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HensonFuerst land condemnation lawyer Anne Duvoisin, who is based out of Boone, NC, is investigating a number of projects that will affect landowners in her immediate area of Watauga County in the coming decade. If you think you may be affected by any of these eminent domain projects, it’s not too soon to start learning
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Last week, after extensive review of the research, New York took the first steps toward a complete ban on fracking in the state. Unfortunately, in the same week, North Carolina continued its push toward allowing fracking, with 117 rules, many of which were poorly written, submitted in haste, or barely reviewed at all by the
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You may know Ben Utecht from his time with the Indianapolis Colts, especially during the 2006 season when his team won the Super Bowl. What you probably don’t know is that Utecht is an accomplished musician and dedicated family man. He is also suffering permanent effects of brain injury, thanks to a lifetime of hard
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Future athletes will look back and wonder at how a sport could devastate so many lives. With changes in policy, new technology, personal stories, and a little luck, tomorrow’s young football players may never have to experience a brain-damaging hit to the head. For decades, concussions were considered a minor injury—you got “dinged,” had your
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Last week, a Miami federal court ordered Boston Scientific Corp to pay four women a total of more than $26 million, a judgment for selling faulty transvaginal surgical mesh. Boston Scientific is one of six medical device companies facing lawsuits over this defective product. Surgical mesh is a common medical product used to repair conditions
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Highway guardrails are installed to keep people safe in the event of an accident. Now, federal officials are claiming that some guardrails malfunction, turning the metal rails into giant spears that can pierce through a car and seriously injure or even kill the people inside. The problem, it seems, comes from a manufacturing change
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The Department of Transportation recently launched a new PSA campaign intended to encourage North Carolina passengers to buckle up. According to a recent NCDOT press release, front seat passenger seatbelt usage dropped in 2013 to 84.9 percent, down nearly one percentage point from the previous year. In North Carolina, every passenger in a motor vehicle
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Women who have had uterine surgery or hysterectomy can tell you that the recovery can be long and painful. So when a new technique known as morcellation became available–which allowed laparoscopic hysterectomies or uterine fibroid removal–it was seen as a great medical step forward. Now, morcellation is being linked with the spread of a rare
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