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by: Stephanie Herschaft, Esq. Last Thursday, Oregon’s highest ruled that thousands of pages of documents detailing accusations and investigations of sexual abuse or other improprieties by Boy Scout leaders around the nation from the mid-1960s into the 1980s can be released. These files proved to be very important to a civil case in 2010 over [...]

by: Michael Werner, Esq. Could smoking actually increase the effectiveness of Plavix (clopidogrel)? Preliminary assessments of recent research strongly support the proposition that there are “substantial reductions in morbidity and mortality with clopidogrel in smokers but no benefit in nonsmokers . . . .” A recent study finds that blood thinner Plavix may only benefit [...]

Prescription drugs can come into two forms. A manufacturer will produce a drug that helps treat or prevent a medical condition. They may also produce a generic form of this drug and offer to the public at a much lower cost. A generic form of the prescription drug Plavix has recently been approved by the [...]

Schools need to be a safe place for our kids, where they can grow and learn without the fear of being harmed by someone else – much less another student. But bullying is very much a part of some children’s lives and it can deeply affect them. Some parents see bullying as “boys being boys” [...]

By Descire Mori, Asistente Legal La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA sus siglas en Inglés) está en la mitad de una investigación sobre si el mayor operador del país de centros de diálisis, Fresenius Medical Care, violó las regulaciones federales al optar por no informar a los consumidores de los riesgos, posiblemente letales, conectados [...]