ABI Pain Conference – Foreword
In advance of the Fieldfisher Pain Conference this coming Thursday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our distinguished speakers for being so willing to share their knowledge with us, and ABI solutions for masterminding the day. I would also like apologise to those delegates that might have been accused of sneaking off to the cinema instead of to a serious Conference. What is pain? A familiar but deceptively simple term. It is a symptom; an experience; an emotion; a sensation; a disease. It is associated with physical, psychological, social and even economic factors but no definition can encapsulate the many nuances of this complex phenomenon. The impact of pain or chronic pain on people’s lives is an intensely subjective experience. It can range …
Your spine. The overlooked, the under-appreciated and the forgotten.
It’s without doubt one of the most fragile areas of our bodies, but non-the-less we often take it for granted. Our spine is invaluable and irreplaceable. Without it, we couldn’t keep ourselves upright, walk or even stand up. Your spine gives your body structure and support. It allows you to move and bend whilst at the same time protecting your spinal cord. The spinal cord is the column of nerves that connects your brain with the rest of your body and organs, allowing you to control your movements. Without a spinal cord, you wouldn’t be able to move any part of your body and your organs wouldn’t function, that’s why keeping your spine healthy, is vital if you want to live an active …
City’s ban on vehicle for-sale signs violates First Amendment, judge rules in lawyer’s $1 lawsuit
A lawyer has won a First Amendment victory in his suit challenging Alexandria, Virginia’s ban on for-sale signs on vehicles parked on city streets.…
Droitwich Spa High School asbestos-find forces closure – BBC News
BBC NewsDroitwich Spa High School asbestos-find forces closureBBC NewsA Worcestershire County Council spokesperson said: "Although Droitwich Spa High School is an academy and has responsibility for the management of asbestos in its buildings, the county council is providing support in the form of technical and analytical …Droitwich Spa High School shuts after asbestos is foundDroitwich StandardDroitwich Spa High School to remain partially closed for the rest of the weekWorcester Newsall 15 news articles »
May is Bicycle Safety Month
May is Bicycle Safety Month The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is getting ready to focus on bicycle safety. Since May is Bicycle Safety Month, they’re encouraging riders and drivers to be “Roll Models.” Anybody can be a “Roll Model,” and all it means is that you’re focused on being a safe rider or driver and you’re setting an example for others. Officials with the NHTSA are hoping that the “Roll Model” program will help to decrease the risks of traffic crashes and preventable injuries and deaths associated with bicycles each year, and although May is Bicycle Safety Month, cyclists and drivers are encouraged to practice bicycle safety every day of the year. Bicycle Injury and Death Facts • In 2012, 726 people were killed in…
BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans streamline No Fault strategy with new proposed law
SB 313 focuses on ‘price controls’ on what doctors and hospital charge for treating car accident victims; no changes/restrictions on PIP benefits Sen. Marty Knollenberg (R-Troy) Trial and error has made Senate Republicans smarter about how they try to change Michigan’s No Fault insurance law. After ramming their No Fault plan (Senate Bill 248) through the Senate only to see it founder before the full House of Representatives, the Senate Republicans are refining their approach. Case in point is Senate Bill 313, the Senate Republicans’ second-round No Fault plan, which was introduced by Sen. Marty Knollenberg (R-Troy) on May 5, 2015. The new bill has none of the ugliness associated with its predecessor, SB 248. SB 313 is a streamlined No Fault plan, which uses surgery-like precision …
Daycare Operator Charged in Shaken Baby Case
According to a recent news article from the Washington Post, the operator of a daycare facility has been arrested and charged in connection with what is believed to be a shaken baby injury to a nine-month-old child. Witnesses say victim dropped her daughter off at the daycare center before going to work. Later that afternoon, daycare owner called 911. When first responders arrived, daycare owner allegedly told EMTs she gave the baby her bottle and placed her in a swing. She said the baby started to cry, but quickly stopped, so she assumed infant had fallen asleep. She went to answer a knock at the front door, and when she returned a few minutes later, the child wasn’t breathing. At this point, she told EMTs she …
Benefits Paid as Claimant Dies
Here’s a heartbreaking story from Channel 11 in Atlanta, one that underscores the importance of having a lawyer help you with your claim early on. Melissa Kern, who suffered from ALS, spent seven long years pleading with Social Security to get her Social Security Disability Benefits–and for seven long years was summarily turned down. “I was told no–flat out ignored at every turn–it was kind of heartbreaking,” her husband Chris told 11Alive’s Bill Liss. “It’s been hard with someone who is so obviously disabled for them to deny it. A lot of times, not even to look at any of the medical records and things like that, because of one technicality. To deny it out of hand astonished everybody….
Immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab shows promise for patients with … – Oncology Nurse Advisor
Immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab shows promise for patients with …Oncology Nurse AdvisorThe PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab, a cancer immunotherapy drug, shrank or halted growth of tumors in 76{9c067c25ed205f086ce6001901eb13dfadc688a7aefab9f64e0c55b8c5a55872} of patients with pleural mesothelioma. These new study results were presented at the 2015 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) …
Left and Right Agree: Don’t Nullify Because it Will Work!
From left to right, the mainstream agrees. Don’t nullify. Why? Because it might actually work. Last year, Ian Millhiser, Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress Action Fund and Editor of Justice at the establishment-liberal ThinkProgess.org, made that very argument against nullification in an article headlined Why a Bipartisan Move Against the NSA Could Kill the New Deal. He was all twisted up in knots because many on the left rallied behind efforts to nullify in practice mass NSA spying through state resistance. “This might seem like a good idea to NSA critics unhappy with President Obama’s reform proposals, but the constitutional theory it depends on is profoundly dangerous. It poses a serious threat to that liberal touchstone, a …
Turning America into a Battlefield: A Blueprint for Lock Down
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. —President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 A standing army—something that propelled the early colonists into revolution—strips the American people of any vestige of freedom. How can there be any semblance of freedom when there are tanks in the …
Global Occupational Safety and Health Project Funded for $10.5M
The money will go to a technical cooperation project from the International Labor Organization.