While there are many reasons for a driver to be distracted including eating, drinking, using maps, talking to passengers. Perhaps one of the most obvious driving distractions of our time is the use of Smartphones. Whether it be emailing, texting, talking, or Pokemon Go, this one device alone gives drivers the temptation to avert…
Missouri is not the only state that has seen a rise indistracted drivers. The state of Ohio is dealing with a dangerous number of traffic accidents caused by distracted drivers. Distracted driving is a dangerous and an unacceptable behavior that plagues the roadways in our country. A recent study reveals more than two-thirds of…
A St. Louis roofer has died more than a month after a tragicconstruction accident in which he fell into a kettle of burning tar. The 66-year-old man died last Wednesday after spending over a month in a medically induced coma. The roofer was working on a one-story University City building when he fell off…
Several Ohio residents were killed in a Floridatraffic accident just outside Panama City. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, five central Ohio residents were involved in a crash last weekend, in Bay County. The Florida Highway Patrol says around midnight on Saturday a vehicle carrying Panama City residents inside, was southbound on Pine Tree…
The FDA has issued a warning about the increased risks of infections and allergic reactions associated withtattoo ink. As the tattoo industry grows to a billion dollar business, the FDA has seen a dramatic increase in complaints. According to the agency officials, there is not one tattoo ink even approved for use in tattooing…
Everyone walking on or near a roadway is a pedestrian. The CDC reported that in 2013, 19% of all pedestrian deaths were sixty-five years and older. Death for pedestrians 14 and younger was one out of every five. Statistically speaking, these are the two groups most at risk. The total number of pedestrians killed…
On Saturday a Quincy man was arrested and is facing much more than one charge for acrash that involved more than five vehicles, one being a john boat parked and on its trailer. Multiple departments were dispatched to Fifth and Chestnut including the Quincy Police Department, Quincy Fire Department, Adam’s County Sheriff’s office, and…
The FDA has announced today that Novo Nordisk has made the decision torecall six batches of the glucagon-injecting devices after it has been reported that needles in the GlucaGen HypoKit have detached from the syringes. A detachment of the needle was reported to Novo Nordisk by a customer in Portugal and one from the…
Peter Pettalia, 61, a Rep. of Michigan who voted against universal helmet laws was killed in amotorcycle accident. A driver of a pickup truck drove into Pettalia’s lane hitting and killing him. Despite being an opponent of the helmet laws, he was wearing one at the time of the accident. Pettalia was a voice…
Well-known heartburndrugs Prilosec and Nexium have been linked to artery damage, kidney failure, and dementia through recent studies. Scientists have discovered shocking information. Cells were used that lined the walls of the arteries and compared by exposing them to an H2 blocker found in Zantac and to Nexium. Cells exposed to Nexium showed a…