A green garbage truck crashed onto the metal drive-through fixture just outside a day care center after it collided with an installation van of the Dish Network in Folsom Boulevard recently. The vehicle collision killed the driver of the van, who was identified as a technician of the network.No one ...

A 75-year old Murrieta man lost his life in a Riverside County auto accident as the vehicle he was driving crashed into a center median of the road along the 41000 block of California Oaks Road in Murrieta. This fatal car accident took place on February 7, 2010, around 6:30 a.m. The deceased, Eugen ...

In a post on my political blog, I discussed the president's plan to hold a bipartisan session on health insurance reform, which at face value seems to represent an offer to mediate or negotiate a compromise, or at least to invite the Republicans back into the process. The Republican leadership has ...

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: A new Web site, Open Educational Resources Center for California, brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California's community-college faculty...

So, I have a male dog. He marks. He even marks over my female dog’s business. Utterly unsurprising. What is surprising is that he does not wait for her to finish before he starts marking! …and much screaming and unnecessary winter-time dog bathing ensues. Ugh!

A new study from the University of Calgary has found that wearing a helmet while skiing or snowboarding reduces the risk of head injuries by 35%>. A report in the latest in the latest Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death and seriou ...

Historically, clerks have had a pretty sweet deal. A year spent with a judge increases their attractiveness to law firms; in the past, this translated to big bonuses for going into Biglaw. During the recession, the deal got slightly less sweet, as firms went a little sour on clerks. Over the last m ...

A 33-year-old Bronx woman with cerebral palsy never left St. Luke’s Hospital in uptown Manhattan after going in for a trip to the dentist. According to the New York Daily News, the woman went into respiratory arrest, suffered brain damage, and died three months later of complications from surgery.He ...

Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs.  The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings together employers and providers to focus on a limited number ...

On February 9, 2010, the medical malpractice lawsuit of Marshall v. Moniz, No. CL08-2018 in Circuit Court for the County of York and the Town of Poquoson, Virginia, was heard on the Defendants’ three dilatory pleadings. Plaintiff alleges that various surgery-related acts and/or omissions caused him ...