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Blind spots are an annoyance for most drivers, though careful adjustment of rear-view mirrors can all but eliminate them. Still, despite those adjustments, most drivers have experienced the heart-pounding moment when a vehicle seems to emerge from nowhere and almost causes an accident. For large trucks, such as tractor-trailers and
Uber maintains limited control over those who drive for them, requiring only a basic background check to determine whether or not someone is a licensed driver and learn a few facts about their driving and criminal histories. These limitations likely exist to keep Uber from having to claim their drivers
Three preschool staff in Des Plaines, Indiana are under indictment after serving melatonin gummies to small children under their care. The three women administered the supplement to toddlers before naptime, hoping to force the children to fall asleep and make their own jobs easier. One of the women was caught
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been prescribed opioids over the last twenty years on the promise that these dangerous drugs provided significant pain relief, particularly for chronic pain. Millions of Vicodin and Oxycontin have been dispensed, and now Fentanyl patches have caused hundreds of deaths across the country, ravaging
A health care worker in Michigan may have exposed over 600 people to tuberculosis over the last year and a half. The worker tested positive for the dangerous disease only recently, leading to a scramble to identify and notify as many potentially exposed people as possible. The worker was employed
AlixPartners is a firm that specializes in turning around ailing companies. In a January 2018 report, the organization set its sights on the automobile industry, identifying problems that car manufacturers need to overcome in the coming years. Foremost among those problems is an addiction to recalls. According to the report,
Most people have a cursory understanding of what liposuction entails, gleaned from movies and television rather than from health experts. The general public would likely describe the surgery as an elective, cosmetic procedure to remove body fat, particularly fat from the stomach. The general public would likely also expect that
An outbreak of E. coli in late 2017 left 26 people significantly ill and 2 people dead. An investigation by Canadian authorities linked the bacteria to Romaine lettuce, and the CDC simply took the report at face value and closed their own investigation despite differences in the bacterial strains between
Accutane (or isotretinoin) is an anti-acne medication that has long been linked with a variety of very serious side effects. Young women prescribed the drug were required to be on birth control due to the high prevalence of significant birth defects. The drug was also linked to serious behavioral side
When an accident occurs that results in death, many families rely on the criminal justice system to sort through the facts. Oftentimes, charges will be brought against the person responsible for the accident, which can result in prison time or long-term probation depending upon the circumstances of the incident. But