When people talk about bringing the new year in with a bang, they're talking firecrackers, not the kind of bang that goes with a car accident. Unfortunately, the New Year's weekend is one of the most dangerous weekends of the year -- every year. Drinking and exuberant...
Year: 2017
Facial injuries in elderly patients indicate unnecessary falls
Do you have an elderly parent who is currently in a hospital, nursing home or assisted living facility? If so, keep your eyes out for facial injuries. They're a likely indicator that your mother or father has had a recent fall due to neglect. Facial trauma can range...
Man who suffered brain injury from rubber bullets gets settlement
When a 16-year-old California teenager headed home from a party one night, he was intoxicated, feeling suicidal and in need of help. He hesitated over killing himself and called the emergency hotline instead -- although he still kept a knife raised to his own throat...
Why do dogs bite during the holidays?
The holidays are meant to be a joyous season, but the stress that comes with family gatherings, gift buying, food prep and other festive activities can sometimes bring out the worst in us. That includes our dogs. For those who don’t have dogs or who are encountering a...
Understand the risks of holiday travel and learn to avoid them
While the exact total shifts a little each year, around 110 people a day will die in traffic accidents during three days in December: the day before Christmas, the day of the holiday and the day after. Many more are injured. Frankly, the entire month of December is...
What causes the most fatalities in large truck crashes?
When a passenger vehicle and a large truck collide, the occupants of the passenger vehicle are usually the ones who end up seriously injured or killed. It's basic physics: large trucks generally weigh as much as 30 times as the average passenger vehicle. In addition,...
Bedbugs and holiday travel: How to be careful
A lot of folks travel during the holiday season, taking trips out of town to see family and friends anywhere between the middle of November through the early part of January. If you're among those people, be careful some uninvited guests don't come home with you --...
How can traumatic brain injuries be diagnosed among the living?
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been in the news quite a bit lately. Studies of deceased former National Football League (NFL) players showed evidence of the disease in almost every one of the bodies donated for the study. When former NFL player Aaron...
Beware of the hidden dangers of chest trauma after car accidents
Car accidents don't have to look bad to be bad. Sometimes people are seriously injured in a car accident and won't register exactly how bad off they really are until hours or days later. Blunt-force chest trauma, for example, can be one of those types of injuries. If...
When you are the only driver in the accident
We think of crashes as one vehicle colliding with another. A route to compensation is clear. The injured party files a claim against the driver who caused the accident. But there is another category: the single car accident. When you are hurt in a crash and there is...