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Despite mass shootings and murder-suicides tied to people with serious mental health issues, states around the country continue to cut funding every year. Budgets cuts lead to reduced access to care--it's as simple as that. And with deplorable acts of...
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Attorneys Douglas Olcott and Dallas Hartman, of Dallas W. Hartman, P.C., have secured a $1.3 million dollar settlement for a Pulaski man who was critically injured in a March 2000 fall as a result of a defective product. Billy Ray Moore...
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Mental health facilities in western Pennsylvania are nearly extinct. Budget cuts over the past 30-40 years have forced state-run psychiatric hospitals to close their doors, leaving previous inhabitants to be dealt with by the law, for-profit companies, local hospitals, and...
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Each time a new study is published about the severity and consistency of medical mistakes, the kind that injure or kill patients, the numbers seem to worsen.A 1999 report titled "To Err is Human," published by the Institute of Medicine,...
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It is fair to say that there is a certain level of trust that residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania place with doctors and other medical providers when they seek assistance for medical conditions. Dentists are included in this group. There are...
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Residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania likely often hear the words brain injury. Throughout the state, residents suffer these injuries on a regular basis. While a brain injury can take multiple forms. One that is likely commonly suffered is a concussion. Though...
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The Chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Deborah Hersman, says that the United States can reduce the number of highway deaths to zero and it starts with the end of distracted driving. "It can be done. All of...
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In states throughout the nation, including Pennsylvania, summer months mean one thing for drivers--road work. Some of these construction projects take all summer, while others only a few days. Regardless of the length of the project, these worksites can be...
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Any motor vehicle accident that results in a loss of life is tragic in nature. Those that result from the negligent acts of another driver, however, are especially difficult to bear. The family of a 58-year-old Ohio woman was recently...
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When a medical emergency presents, doctors and surgeons are often called upon to make decisions that may ultimately impact whether a patient lives or dies. Despite working under extreme conditions, emergency department doctors are highly trained and experienced professionals who...
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As high school and college students have made their way back to school this semester, there is one thing in particular that social focus and parent/teacher groups are trying to push: the potential effects of distracted driving. AT&T, Sprint, and...
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The nation's second leading producer of natural gas, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, has decided to settle a Pennsylvania leaseholders' complaint and pay out $7.5 million to PA residents who claimed they were shorted, sometimes as much as 95%, on their royalty...
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